INNOVATION IN HEALTHCARE

How to Successfully Sustain Innovations in Healthcare Organizations

How to Effectively Sustain Innovations in Healthcare Organizations

Introduction

The provision of reliable care for people who are ill or injured demands a stable and efficient Healthcare system to be in place. Medical advice, vaccine administering, prescriptions and operations are some of the crucial elements that are need to be provided to the society in order for a nation to prosper. Healthcare is one of the foundation blocks of any society and the Healthcare Organizations offering their services contribute to society in a very positive way. Their existence and stable functioning is essential for the wellbeing and welfare of the people.

Innovation is an essential element for any organization in order to live on, produce and considerably control the course of any business. Development does not; though, assures accomplishment, but most be pursued with consecutive flow of modernization and change, from the enhancement to the fundamental. The most dependable way to be successful in the industry is to drive off superior than the competitor, primary corporations develops modernism collection that they can utilize to aid maintain expansion over the elongated period (Uljin 2003: 19).

Innovation and change is an essential part of any business activity, but only some people recognize its importance and significance. Often, management fails to notice the implication of innovation and change, which becomes the reason of the change failure (Sutton 2001: 94).

On the other hand, from the patient's perspective, sustainable innovations improve the patient's health and decrease the chances of illness (Lansisalmi et al., 2006, p. 66-67). Adoption and execution of innovations varies from organization to organization. Innovations have different adoption rate. The adoption and execution rate of innovation depends on the factors that have been focused or ignored. Organization ignores some factors while bringing or introducing the innovations in its processes, system, and services (Greenhalgh et al., 2004, p. 594). For successful adoption and execution of innovative services, healthcare organizations must take into account various factors that can ensure the sustainability of innovative services.

Discussion

To foster an environment favourable to innovation in the health sector, the health care sector should be an example in offering the best and most innovative therapies and medicines for its population. There should be a significant savings in the health spending to attract investment and promote greater economic growth. The innovation not only benefits the patient in improving their quality of life, but it also affects the professionalization of human resources, the vitality of the economy, as well as scientific and technological development of the country.

The uprising technology has the most fundamental and extensive proposition for the healthcare industry is the emergence of nanotechnology. The Nanotechnology engulfs several packages—comprising organic mechanisms; little automatic products; or as elegant motes that can execute small functioning structures grouped with an antenna connector, serial interface, analogue inputs, and digital inputs and outputs. In nanotechnology, each mote is like a small computer that is able of being purposed at its original completion of the ...