Digital innovation readiness of Dutch healthcare organizations: an interview study with multiple stakeholders

• Five themes and 13 sub-themes were identified that contribute to digital innovation readiness of healthcare organizations; • Key themes include strategic guidance, organization, adaptive climate, leading digital innovation, digital foundation; • Enhancing healthcare organizations’ digital innovation readiness requires a continues and systematic approach. Increasing healthcare organizations’ digital innovation readiness is crucial to ensuring future availability, accessibility, affordability, and quality of healthcare. This study identifies themes that contribute to the digital innovation readiness of healthcare organizations. A qualitative study was conducted using 17 semi-structured interviews among multiple stakeholders, clustered into 5 groups—academics, consultants, (top) managers (e.g., CIO/CEO), digital innovation managers, and primary care workers with digital innovation as a field of interest. Thematic analysis was used to analyze data. Five themes that contribute to digital innovation readiness of healthcare organizations were identified—strategic guidance, organization, adaptive climate, leading digital innovation, and digital foundation. This study identifies themes that contribute to digital innovation readiness of healthcare organizations, helping such organizations prepare to innovate using digital technologies. Future research should validate these themes and explore interrelationships among them.