[PDF] What do we mean by Innovation in Healthcare? | Semantic Scholar (2024)

A framework that captures and simplifies foundational substance within innovation concepts and affords insight and clarity for creating precise meanings, and making critical sense of imprecision, around innovation is offered.

It would appear reasonable that decision makers should get more involved in priority setting and funding also in the field of clinical research in order to provide further evidence needed for assessments, reassessments, and subsequent qualified decisions and resource allocations in health care.

Early interaction between developers and dedicated multidisciplinary teams at regulatory agencies may prove instrumental for speeding up the time required for proper evaluation and product registration, as well as the establishment of quality validation mechanisms.

It is shown that healthcare entrepreneurs do not reject the development of innovative projects and that those who have implemented innovative practices have had positive results; however, various obstacles negatively impact the implementation of innovative ideas.

The lack of a unified definition of innovation among regulatory authorities and health technology assessment bodies in five countries, and variation in the types of incentives associated with innovation are highlighted.

This study is aimed to draw a conceptual framework on innovation and health innovation and to explain the innovations in health service supply within the framework of the Health Transformation Program put into practice in 2003.

By proposing and implementing innovations in nursing science, important results are achieved such as modern concepts, new knowledge and skills, scientific recognition of nurses, the formation of a different work culture as well as higher incomes.

This study synthesizes the evidence base on scaling and identifies current knowledge gaps to highlight knowledge gaps around methodology and research infrastructures to facilitate equitable North-South research relationships.

This chapter explains the concepts of responsible innovation in health, frugal innovation and disruptive innovation and provides guidance for midwives who wish to turn their ideas into innovations and makes recommendations for policy and practice.

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If the concept of healthcare innovation can be clarified, then it may become easier for health policymakers and practitioners to evaluate, adopt and procure services in ways that realistically recognize, encourage and give priority to truly valuable healthcare innovations.

Five pathways for future research are recommended: Multilevel approaches studying innovation simultaneously on individual, group, and organizational levels; a combination of quantitative and qualitative data; use of longitudinal designs; application of experimental designs in interventions; and exploration of innovation generation and structural innovations.

Cataloging the innovation types and identifying the forces that aid or undermine them can reveal insights on how to treat chronic innovation ills- prescriptions that will make any industry healthier.

A parsimonious and evidence-based model for considering the diffusion of innovations in health service organizations, clear knowledge gaps where further research should be focused, and a robust and transferable methodology for systematically reviewing health service policy and management are discussed.

It appears that if a policy is developed to further diffuse innovations, the external effects of demand and market competition need to be examined, which would de facto lead to an efficient use of technology.

It is indicated that companies wishing to introduce new technological products with a positive societal impact may profit from involving technologically reflective individuals in the NPD process.

Measured responses that acknowledge both the tangible and less tangible aspects of a change process are required for the planning and implementation of large scale, successful and sustainable change initiatives across complex health systems.

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