MedCity News December 7, 2022
Give innovators guidelines that reward hard-fought failures. Look outside your organization and industry for breakthroughs to adapt, rather than products or procedures to adopt. Innovation isn’t something you acquire. It’s something you grow from within.
Every organization talks about innovation, but all too often they view it as something external — a new technology to adopt or a device to purchase. Rather than foster an internal culture of innovation, they watch for others to emerge in their industries and go no further than a build-vs-buy evaluation of something already created by someone else.
In healthcare, a lack of innovation culture can lead to suboptimal patient outcomes. Lives and futures depend on systems, processes, and clinicians’ skills and actions. We must...