In order to ensure long-term existence, effective organization, introduction of successful innovations and benefit generation for all actors in healthcare networks, it is essential to recognize the factors influencing the sustainability of these networks (Buhl 2010: 13-31). Only in this way can these determinants be designed specifically for independent existence. In the first part of this study, a preliminary framework was created using a systematic literature review that presents the sustainability factors of innovative healthcare networks. The research field of sustainability factors of innovative networks has not yet been examined in the context of the German healthcare system, so the results generated so far come from other healthcare systems or related forms of cooperation. In order to refute the uncertainties of transferability and completeness, the determinants for selected innovative health networks should be examined qualitatively and the hypothetical model should be empirically modified and supplemented. By comparing the findings from theory and practice, an instrument is to be created that will support coordinators in innovative health networks in shaping cooperation and alliances sustainably.

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