Healthcare Innovation
Improving how care is delivered and accessed — where the binding constraint is rarely the technology.
Sometimes the innovation is not a device
It is tempting to assume health problems are solved by new technology. Frequently they are not. A screening programme may fail because results take three weeks to return, because patients cannot afford a second visit, or because nobody is responsible for following up an abnormal result — none of which a better instrument would fix.
Healthcare innovation at the Center therefore covers process as much as product. We are as interested in a referral pathway that stops patients being lost to follow-up as in a new assay, because both change outcomes, and the first is often cheaper and faster to implement.
Where healthcare innovation concentrates
Access & delivery
Referral pathways
Point-of-care approaches
Cost reduction
Quality improvement
Health information
Evidence before deployment
Proposed service innovations are evaluated through our health sciences research before being recommended for wider adoption. A change that feels obviously better is not the same as one shown to help.
Propose a healthcare innovation
We are interested in ideas from clinicians, laboratory staff and health managers who can see where a process is failing.