مقاله انگلیسی رایگان در مورد نوآوری فن آوری مدیریتی کیفیت مراقبت بهداشتی

مقاله سال 2016

Healthcare quality is a major driver of innovation, growth, and competitiveness. Healthcare quality and its relevant associated businesses, particularly from a managerial perspective, are a key source of business dynamism, innovation, and improvements in the social ecosystem. However, current healthcare quality performance is inadequate in both developed and developing countries. The implementation of meaningful advances in social changes through healthcare quality innovation will require a number of initiatives, including promoting a new quality paradigm in the healthcare industry, synthesizing expertise on ways to prevent social vulnerability, a commitment to the systematic practice of innovation, and methods to facilitate access to resources. Since an overview of the current state of the art in healthcare quality has not been properly explored, this paper will combine a literature review with an introduction to special issue papers focusing on the three sub-topics of healthcare technology, process, and knowledge innovation; the healthcare value chain, supply chain, and logistics; and the healthcare system, quality, and social innovation.

In the United States (US), healthcare spending represented approximately 18% of the gross domestic product (GDP) in 2011 and is predicted to reach 20% by 2020 (Berwick and Hackbarth, 2012; Keehan et al., 2011). New technology and its broad adoption into the healthcare industry are considered two of the main contributors to this spending increase (Aaron and Ginsburg, 2009; Barbash and Glied, 2010; Burns et al., 2011; Hillestad et al., 2005). In these previous studies, new healthcare technology emergence equates with higher fixed costs to hospitals and additional packages to insurance companies and federal supports, such as Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health. In contrast to other industries, new technology has been slow to be adopted. In the present special topic issues, we emphasize a variety of technological innovations in the healthcare industry and provide points that lead to innovation with healthcare policy makers and decision makers who are keenly aware of how to connect these points with technological innovation. The theoretical argument for expanding the concept of innovation originates in the definition of innovation and healthcare structure.

Historically, innovation in other industries is generally studied from the perspectives of production and process development (Utterback and Abernathy, 1975). However, most healthcare organizations find it challenging to innovate within organizations in terms of management, system, and culture (Boer and During, 2001; Damanpour and Gopalakrishnan, 2001; Dougherty and Dunne, 2011; Francis and Bessant, 2005). The unsettling task of applying organizational approaches to innovation requires further study. Moreover, innovation in the healthcare industry has yet to uncover its impactful potential to innovate, even though there has been much recent progress on many fronts, such as open innovative systems (Bessant et al., 2012), innovative dynamics in hospitals (Djellal and Gallouj, 2005), the implication of Geisinger’s practice (Paulus et al., 2008), and the influence of top managers in adopting innovative management practices (Young et al., 2001). These meaningful studies should help to integrate validated healthcare innovation models for practitioner use.