Implementation science: A critical but undervalued part of the healthcare innovation ecosystem
Abstract Healthcare systems face many competing demands and insufficient resources. Service innovations to improve efficiency are important to address this challenge. Innovations can range from new pharmaceuticals, alternate models of care, novel devices, and the use other technologies. Suboptimal i...
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| author | Sze Ling Chan Elaine Lum Marcus E. H. Ong Nicholas Graves |
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| description | Abstract Healthcare systems face many competing demands and insufficient resources. Service innovations to improve efficiency are important to address this challenge. Innovations can range from new pharmaceuticals, alternate models of care, novel devices, and the use other technologies. Suboptimal implementation can mean lost benefits. This review article aims to highlight the role of implementation science, summarize how settings have leveraged this methodology to promote translation of innovation into practice, and describe our own experience of embedding implementation science into an academic medical center in Singapore. Implementation science offers a range of methods to promote systematic uptake of research findings about innovations and is gaining recognition worldwide as an important discipline for health services researchers. Health systems around the world have tried to promote implementation research in their settings by establishing (1) dedicated centers/programs, (2) offering funding, and (3) building knowledge and capacity among staff. Implementation science is a critical piece in the translational pathway of “evidence to innovation.” The three efforts we describe should be strengthened to integrate implementation science into the innovation ecosystem around the world. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-976a94c7c08048e9a01d08ecdb4c17362023-02-22T22:40:58ZengWileyHealth Care Science2771-17572022-12-011316016510.1002/hcs2.22Implementation science: A critical but undervalued part of the healthcare innovation ecosystemSze Ling Chan0Elaine Lum1Marcus E. H. Ong2Nicholas Graves3Health Services Research Centre, SingHealth Singapore SingaporeHealth Services and Systems Research Duke‐NUS Medical School Singapore SingaporeHealth Services Research Centre, SingHealth Singapore SingaporeHealth Services and Systems Research Duke‐NUS Medical School Singapore SingaporeAbstract Healthcare systems face many competing demands and insufficient resources. Service innovations to improve efficiency are important to address this challenge. Innovations can range from new pharmaceuticals, alternate models of care, novel devices, and the use other technologies. Suboptimal implementation can mean lost benefits. This review article aims to highlight the role of implementation science, summarize how settings have leveraged this methodology to promote translation of innovation into practice, and describe our own experience of embedding implementation science into an academic medical center in Singapore. Implementation science offers a range of methods to promote systematic uptake of research findings about innovations and is gaining recognition worldwide as an important discipline for health services researchers. Health systems around the world have tried to promote implementation research in their settings by establishing (1) dedicated centers/programs, (2) offering funding, and (3) building knowledge and capacity among staff. Implementation science is a critical piece in the translational pathway of “evidence to innovation.” The three efforts we describe should be strengthened to integrate implementation science into the innovation ecosystem around the world.https://doi.org/10.1002/hcs2.22evidence translationimplementation researchintervention |
| spellingShingle | Sze Ling Chan Elaine Lum Marcus E. H. Ong Nicholas Graves Implementation science: A critical but undervalued part of the healthcare innovation ecosystem Health Care Science evidence translation implementation research intervention |
| title | Implementation science: A critical but undervalued part of the healthcare innovation ecosystem |
| title_full | Implementation science: A critical but undervalued part of the healthcare innovation ecosystem |
| title_fullStr | Implementation science: A critical but undervalued part of the healthcare innovation ecosystem |
| title_full_unstemmed | Implementation science: A critical but undervalued part of the healthcare innovation ecosystem |
| title_short | Implementation science: A critical but undervalued part of the healthcare innovation ecosystem |
| title_sort | implementation science a critical but undervalued part of the healthcare innovation ecosystem |
| topic | evidence translation implementation research intervention |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1002/hcs2.22 |
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