Rahul Chodhari & Indranil Chakravorty MBE
Ultimately, healthcare innovation leads to improved clinical care, with new technology improving the efficiency, effectiveness, quality, and affordability of healthcare. With ever increasing demand on health systems all around the world, the ultimate goal of healthcare innovation is to improve the ability to meet public and personal healthcare needs through the optimisation of the health systems performance. Within this article, we will discuss hospital-based innovation within the next decadewhich yield scalable solutions within the fields of preventative, treatment, and infection control healthcare innovation.
Governments are faced with tough choices since medical innovations hold both promises and perils.These innovations are happeningacross multiple dimensions, including core sciences, drugdevelopment, care delivery, and organizational and businessmodels. In particular, medical technology related innovationsare blossoming, with medical technology patents morenumerous and growing at a faster path than pharmaceutical patents for the last decade.
Despite this enormous investment in innovation and the magnitude of the opportunity forinnovators to both do good and do well, all too many efforts fail, losing billions of investor resources along the way. [1]Barriers to disruptive innovation is often the public themselves acting through fear, enacting stringent regulation, supported by established professionals afraid to lose income and hospitals their investment in expensive systems. [2]Keywords: Hospital innovation, medical technologyRahul Chodhari1& Indranil ChakravortyMBE1 Associate Director Medical Innovation, New Hospital Programme, *Medical Productivity Director (NHS England); 2 University of [email protected] as: Chodhari, R. & Chakravorty, I. (2024) Hospital innovations for the next decade. The Physician. Vol 9; Issue 1: Art 2 DOI 10.38192/1.9.1.2 Article informationSubmittedJul 24RevisedApr 24PublishedApr 24