Bates David W, Sheikh Aziz, Asch David A
David W. Bates (
Aziz Sheikh is a professor of primary care research and development in the Centre for Population Health at the University of Edinburgh, in Great Britain.
Health Aff (Millwood). 2017 Mar 1;36(3):400-407. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2016.1311.
Organizations seeking to create innovative environments in health care need to pay attention to a number of factors. These include making available sufficient resources, notably money and physical space, but also coordination and consultation regarding intellectual property and licensing; enabling access to engineers, software developers, and behavioral scientists; making providers and patients available to innovators; having a sufficiently long-term view; and insulating the innovation group from operational demands. If there is a single essential key to success, it is making innovation a strategic priority. Academic health systems are enormous generators of innovation in the form of generalizable research in biomedical sciences. Typically, much of that innovation is externally supported, and little is directed to improving care processes internally. In industries other than health care, organizations invest their own funds in research and development to promote innovation, and this investment is seen as a metric for a firm's commitment to its future. Increased investment in care-process innovation is long overdue.
寻求在医疗保健领域创造创新环境的组织需要关注一系列因素。这些因素包括提供充足的资源，特别是资金和物理空间，还有关于知识产权和许可的协调与咨询；使创新者能够接触到工程师、软件开发人员和行为科学家；让提供者和患者参与到创新中来；要有足够长远的眼光；以及让创新团队不受运营需求的干扰。如果说成功有一个至关重要的关键，那就是将创新作为战略重点。学术健康系统是生物医学科学中可推广研究形式的巨大创新源泉。通常，大部分创新是由外部支持的，很少有针对内部护理流程改进的。在医疗保健以外的行业，组织会投入自有资金进行研发以促进创新，这种投资被视为公司对其未来承诺的一个衡量标准。对护理流程创新增加投资早就该进行了。
