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Hospital innovation

The folks over at Fierce Healthcare have posted their Hospital Innovation Awards. These aren't the standard JCAHO-type plaques, but rather focus on creativity and novel solutions to common problems.

I'm a fan of not-for-profits, but my fan status is colored by scars from working with several health care systems and hospitals. That experience has led to me to understand that innovation, of any stripe, is worth recognition. When you scan the award recipients, you may be less-than-blown-away by the level of creativity.

But in the context of the multi-tiered, cumbersome, convoluted and pitfall-lined bureaucracy that is the typical NFP health care system, the creativity recognized by the Awards is remarkable tin hat it occurred at all.

Posted by on May 10, 2007 5:14 AM |

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