Jozsef L Szentpeteri, Peter Szabo, Noemi Liber, Eva Pandur, Mate Deak, Adrienne Csutak, Attila Sik
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Abstract
Introduction: Healthcare spending constitutes a significant portion of the GDP. Innovation in healthcare lowers healthcare costs, improves outcomes, and increases service quality. Several obstacles hinder most innovative efforts in hospitals. Often, supposed innovative solutions fail to address existing problems, which do not translate into market-ready solutions and lack economic or social value. Improvement in healthcare innovation efficiency saves a considerable amount of money and lives. Drawing on multidisciplinary frameworks of concepts and practices, this study develops a comprehensive methodology to change hospital innovation organizational culture and improve innovation efficiency.
Methods: We designed a comprehensive framework from problem identification through to product development involving university students, clinical staff, medical doctors, and researchers working in a non-medical field. Two novel elements were introduced: the Champion Network (medical doctors) and the Discovery Team (members working in non-medical fields). Coaching and mentoring the clinical staff, innovation courses, and hackathon events for students were also part of the framework.
Results: The involvement of clinical staff and the number of intellectual product disclosures increased by an average of 10% in 3 years despite the COVID-19 challenge. Out of many identified problems, IT and process management stood out as a general problem in all eight analyzed clinics. Hardware and software solutions were created during the program.
Discussion: Introducing various layers of participants in the innovation process, including non-medical professionals and students, changes the attitude of healthcare professionals towards innovation and can result in a product or service development addressing real-life needs. Our research shows that a holistic approach involving healthcare professionals and non-medical experts from various levels in their careers, ranging from undergraduate students to senior leaders, changes innovation culture and generates solutions for existing real-life problems.
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The Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare (JMDH) aims to represent and publish research in healthcare areas delivered by practitioners of different disciplines. This includes studies and reviews conducted by multidisciplinary teams as well as research which evaluates or reports the results or conduct of such teams or healthcare processes in general. The journal covers a very wide range of areas and we welcome submissions from practitioners at all levels and from all over the world. Good healthcare is not bounded by person, place or time and the journal aims to reflect this. The JMDH is published as an open-access journal to allow this wide range of practical, patient relevant research to be immediately available to practitioners who can access and use it immediately upon publication.
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