Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Hertog,Friso,den 
Author-Name: Groen,Marjan
Author-Name: Weehuizen,Rifka
Author-workplace-name: MERIT
Title: Mapping Health Care Innovation: Tracing Walls & Ceilings
Abstract: Health care is in need of innovation on many strands. Patient-centered care appears to be the key to the realization of the main objectives: service quality, cost reduction, access, patient satisfaction and the quality of working life. Innovation, and more precisely, the diffusion and implementation of new methods, new techniques and new processes and systems appears to be a difficult task. Consequently, there is a strong need for knowledge about innovation processes in health care and the drivers and barriers affecting these efforts. This paper presents a framework for mapping innovation processes in health care services. The framework consists of two axes: (1) the horizontal axis of the health care process and the inter-functional walls which can complicate innovation efforts, and (2) the vertical axis of the echelons of power, which often create ceilings too impermeable to permit effective learning and decision making. The study is based on the experiences gathered in Publin, a running research network supported by the Fifth Framework Program and Innoflex, which ended in 2003. 
Keywords: economics of technology ; 
Series: Research Memoranda
Creation-Date: 2005
Number: 013
File-URL: http://arnop.unimaas.nl/show.cgi?fid=3132
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 137987
Handle: RePEc:unm:umamer:2005013