Health Innovation

1. one changes ways consumers buy and use health care

2. uses technologies to develop new products and improves care

3. generates new business models

1. industry players

2. funding

3. public policy

4. technology

5. customers

6. accountability

1. socioeconomic / environmental / cultural

2. living and working conditions

3. social and community networks

4. individual lifestyle factors

5. age, sex, constitutional factors

the process by which an innovation is communicated through channels over time

knowledge

persuasion

decision

implementation

confirmation

knowledge, attitude, practice gap

mostly occurs in preventative innovation

1. relative advantage - how much it improves

2. compatibility - how consistent it is with values & experiences

3. complexity - how difficult it seems to comprehend and use tech

4. triability - degree of which it can be tried or probated

5. observability - the degree of which you can observe the success

the point of which diffusion becomes self-sufficient

1. agenda setting

2. matching

3. redefining

4. clarifying

5. routinizing

1. mass media (important at first)

2. interpersonal channels (important in long run)

norms, roles, values, hierarchies

high level of post-secondary education

natural resources

health and life sciences resources

funding

distance between provinces

provincial silos

low population

1. institutions

2. human capital and research

3. infrastructure

4. market sophistication

5. business sophistication

1. knowledge and technology output

2. creative outputs

1. confidentiality

2. plagiarism

3. intellectual property rights

4. amateurs

5. potential for failure

1. equitable use

2. flexibility use

3. simple and intuitive use

4. perceptible information

5. tolerance of error

6. low physical effort

7. size and space for approach and use

1. intentionally involving target users in designing solutions

2. postponing design decisions until after gathering feedback

3. synthesizing feedback from target users into insights

4. developing solutions based on feedback given

using both indigenous and western perspectives

1. data to knowledge (healthcare research)

2. Knowledge to performance (knowledge transfer)

3. performance to data (enabling vehicle of change)

1. catalyzes POR

2. facilitates research

3. directly funds research

4. finds and supports synergy

1. health research funding agencies

2. public venture capitalists

3. technology transfer offices

4. incubators

population health: tackle health inequity

health system: the extent an innovation responds to challenges

Economic: high performing and affordable

Organization: business strategy and how it provides value

environmental: reduce negative environmental impact

organization for economic co-operation and development

works to build better policies for better lives

1. analyst

2. design and implementation

clear communication

build trust

document

know yourself, take planned risks, accept change, set goals

time-cost-scope = quality