Househ Mowafa, Alshammari Riyad, Almutairi Mariam, Jamal Amr, Alshoaib Saleh
College of Public Health and Health Informatics, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences (KSAU-HS), Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Takween Tech, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2015;213:237-40.
Entrepreneurship and innovation within the health informatics (HI) scientific community are relatively sluggish when compared to other disciplines such as computer science and engineering. Healthcare in general, and specifically, the health informatics scientific community needs to embrace more innovative and entrepreneurial practices. In this paper, we explore the concepts of innovation and entrepreneurship as they apply to the health informatics scientific community. We also outline several strategies to improve the culture of innovation and entrepreneurship within the health informatics scientific community such as: (I) incorporating innovation and entrepreneurship in health informatics education; (II) creating strong linkages with industry and healthcare organizations; (III) supporting national health innovation and entrepreneurship competitions; (IV) creating a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship within healthcare organizations; (V) developing health informatics policies that support innovation and entrepreneurship based on internationally recognized standards; and (VI) develop an health informatics entrepreneurship ecosystem. With these changes, we conclude that embracing health innovation and entrepreneurship may be more readily accepted over the long-term within the health informatics scientific community.
与计算机科学和工程等其他学科相比，健康信息学（HI）科学界的创业精神和创新相对滞后。总体而言，医疗保健领域，特别是健康信息学科学界需要采用更多创新和创业实践。在本文中，我们探讨了适用于健康信息学科学界的创新和创业概念。我们还概述了几种改善健康信息学科学界创新和创业文化的策略，例如：（I）将创新和创业纳入健康信息学教育；（II）与行业和医疗保健组织建立紧密联系；（III）支持全国健康创新和创业竞赛；（IV）在医疗保健组织内部营造创新和创业文化；（V）制定基于国际公认标准的支持创新和创业的健康信息学政策；以及（VI）发展健康信息学创业生态系统。通过这些变革，我们得出结论，从长远来看，拥抱健康创新和创业在健康信息学科学界可能会更容易被接受。
