Varying goals and approaches of innovation centers in academic health systems: a semistructured qualitative study

Academic Medicine : Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges
Rebecca M SpeckLee A Fleisher

Abstract

The medical community has seen a high level of interest in innovation over recent years. In response, health systems and medical centers have established innovation offices or centers, but their processes and practices for fostering innovation are not well understood. This information could help leaders in the medical community discern and develop criteria for assessing the tools and approaches most effective in fostering innovation. The authors outlined a framework for examining factors involved when health systems attempt to foster innovation, and used the framework to design a semistructured qualitative interview study to collect information in 2012 and 2013 about how a purposive sample of three health systems have implemented strategies for fostering and supporting innovation. All interview sites carried out some form of in-house innovation strategy, and experienced institution-level barriers to innovation. A common barrier was having the right resources and infrastructure to support the transition from prototype and pilot to operations. All sites had funding support from senior leadership, but success metrics took different forms. This study demonstrated the usefulness of the framework for conceptualizing innovation in med...Continue Reading

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Oct 1, 2011·Academic Medicine : Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges·Roberta B Ness
Jun 1, 2013·Healthcare : the Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation·Christian TerwieschKevin G Volpp
Aug 8, 2015·Healthcare : the Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation·Robert W WeisbergLee A Fleisher

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