Innovation in Action: A practical guide for healthcare teams

Describes key issues surrounding innovation, such as the barriers to innovation in healthcare, the opportunities of working across boundaries in open innovation, and the process and tools of exploring the innovation approach.

It is now recognized that innovation in healthcare needs to be a primary strategy for dealing with the challenges of pressure from consumers and the effort to control costs.

The highly-regarded author follows a five-stage process model that presents a systematic base for understanding, and -- more importantly -- performing innovation work:

Defining the innovation design challengeThe process and tools of exploring the innovationGenerating innovative ideasPrototyping and testing innovationsCreating a diffusion plan

This user-friendly guide is ideal for all healthcare professionals and healthcare teams, both in training and in practice.

Platform:

OvidSP

Publisher:

Wiley

Product Type:

Book

Author:

Endsley, Scott

ISBN:

978-1-44-433057-1

Specialty:

• General Medicine

Language:

English

Edition:

1st

Pages:

152

Publication Year:

2010