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Innovation
The term “innovation”
refers to making meaningful change to improve services, programs,
processes,
or organizational
effectiveness
and to create new value for
stakeholders.
Innovation involves the adoption
of an idea,
process,
technology, or product that is either new or new to its proposed
application. Successful organizational innovation is a multi-step process that involves development and knowledge sharing, a decision to implement, implementation, evaluation, and learning. Although innovation is often associated with health care research and technological innovation, it is applicable to all key organizational processes that would benefit from change, whether through breakthrough improvement or change in approach or outputs. It could include fundamental changes in the organizational structure or business model to more effectively accomplish the organization’s work, critical pathways and practice guidelines, facility design, the administration of medications, the organization of work, or alternative therapies. |
Note: Blue words above are
hyperlinks to other integrated
Glossary terms.
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