Introduction
The involvement of firms and their staff in innovation has become a key component of improving service delivery and meeting the needs of the consumer. Kelly (2019), through his article ‘Promoting Innovation in Healthcare’, addresses what healthcare firms and professionals need to execute to facilitate rapid adoption of proven innovation as a best practice within home countries. The author uses analysis as well as historical reflections on how different firms embraced innovation—which he defines as inventing, adapting, and diffusing an idea. Kelly targets healthcare companies and their staff. Innovation is more of a practical thing; hence researchers looking at how it can promote should discuss potential implementation methods, besides addressing challenges, culture, and issues of innovating in healthcare.
Summary
Kelly addresses quick innovation as a novel idea when embraced as best practice domestically, which consequently promotes faster delivery of services in healthcare, alongside ensuring customers are satisfied. Breaking his idea into subsections, the author explores the challenges of innovating in healthcare, how to create a culture of innovation, accessing funding for innovation, and key issues. Kelly concludes that National Health Service (NHS) currently seems to be a daunting place of innovation. Therefore, he suggests that the upcoming healthcare community should embrace a culture of innovation to be vibrant and actively participate in revolutionizing futuristic patient care.
Critique
Kelly outlines that quickly proven innovation can have a decisive influence on patient care, especially when robust, innovative culture is adopted nationally. His notion is entirely reasonable and particularly factual considering recurrent innovation-based challenges faced by present-day hospitals and their staff. Just to mention a few, the healthcare sector faces innovation problems such as the inability to handle big data, cybersecurity, delayed invoicing and payment processing, lack of transparency in pricing, dissatisfaction of patients due to the use of inferior technologies, and ineffective payment model (Devi, 2021; He et al., 2021). Perhaps, a detailed analysis of how to create an innovation culture, challenges of innovating in healthcare, and related issues earns credit since all are designed to create a receptive environment where the new initiative can thrive in the presence of onboard problems. In my view, an in-depth analysis of the potential sources of innovation funding is the best idea that the author was wisely thoughtful to reflect on in his article.
However, though the entire article looks somewhat effective, it does not horn the innovative idea in totality because the author absconded from discussing the steps involved in innovation. The success of innovation is derived from ordered steps, including spotting opportunities, prioritizing opportunities, testing potential innovation, building support for innovation, and eventually learning innovative efforts available within the healthcare framework. I feel this should have been treated crucial component of Kelly’s article (Gomes Chaves et al., 2021). Kelly’s article also fails to address key stakeholders of healthcare innovation. For example, the government plays a pivotal role in realizing the success of an innovative idea in the healthcare sector within a nation.
Conclusion
Taking everything into account, I can conclude without fear of contradiction that Kelly provides some interesting insights and a well-thought topic of “Promoting Innovation in Healthcare. His article gives a significant amount of information supported by a case study analysis of the NeoMate firm in Box 2. Nonetheless, for a complete assessment, he should also focus on reflecting on the process of innovation in healthcare and key stakeholders’ analysis. An innovative idea can only be implemented saucerful following a clear process after performing a detailed analysis of key stakeholders.
References
Devi, S. (2021). Disruptive innovation and challenges in healthcare 3.0. Journal of Hospital & Medical Management, 7(3:01), 1–8. Web.
Gomes Chaves, B., Briand, C., & Bouabida, K. (2021). Innovation in healthcare organizations: Concepts and challenges to consider. International Journal of Health Research and Innovation, 1-14. Web.
He, Y., Aliyu, A., Evans, M., & Luo, C. (2021). Health care cybersecurity challenges and solutions under the climate of COVID-19: Scoping review. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 23(4), e21747. Web.
Kelly, C. J., & Young, A. J. (2017). Promoting innovation in healthcare. Future healthcare journal, 4(2), 121. Web.