Lately, the term “health innovation” has been spread widely in the mainstream press. But what are we really talking about? Innovation in the etymological sense is a change that brings novelty.
According to the French Ministry of Health, health innovation has three fields :
- The field most commonly considered is the one of medical innovation relating to therapies and diagnosis.
- Next comes the one related to the technological area that can create disruption. We currently talk a lot about artificial intelligence or big data.
- Last but not least, we have the field related to organization and impacts on people.
We can then talk about social or societal innovation, because it contributes to a profound and change in practices in society.
Technology has almost always an impact on people and organizations. It is up to the decision-makers and project leaders to integrate the necessary dimension of accompanying change.
Accompanying health innovation means ensuring a “holistic and systemic approach” that fully integrates the process, the health professionals, physicians and users, and is open to the patient experience.
- How is this new service or new app really used? How many target people are using it? How deeply?
- The best technological solution is vain whether it does not meet its users and propose them added value.
- In order to achieve a health innovation that is truly user-friendly, it is more than relevant to set up, from the earliest stages of its design tools and devices involving users, whether they are professionals or health workers, health actors and / or citizens.
The living labs are emblematic of this usage-oriented approach, by promoting the round-trip between the designer and the end user throughout the life cycle of innovation, by maximizing the co-design approach.
Hivi karibuni, neno "innovation afya" imekuwa kuenea sana katika vyombo vya habari kuu. Lakini kwa kweli tunazungumza juu ya nini? Ubunifu katika maana ya etymological ni mabadiliko ambayo huleta novelty. Kwa mujibu wa Wizara ya Afya ya Ufaransa, uvumbuzi wa afya una maeneo matatu: - Eneo linalochukuliwa kwa kawaida ni lile la uvumbuzi wa matibabu unaohusiana na matibabu na utambuzi. - Ifuatayo ni ile inayohusiana na eneo la kiteknolojia ambalo linaweza kuunda usumbufu. Kwa sasa tunazungumza sana juu ya akili bandia au data kubwa. Mwisho lakini si mdogo, tuna uwanja unaohusiana na shirika na athari kwa watu. "Tunaweza kusema juu ya ubunifu wa kijamii, kwa sababu inachangia mabadiliko ya kina katika mazoea ya jamii.""" Teknolojia karibu daima ina athari kwa watu na mashirika. Ni juu ya watendaji wa maamuzi na viongozi wa mradi kuunganisha kipimo muhimu cha kuandamana na mabadiliko. Kuandamana na uvumbuzi wa afya inamaanisha kuhakikisha "mkakati wa jumla na wa mfumo" ambao unajumuisha kikamilifu mchakato, wataalamu wa afya, madaktari na watumiaji, na ni wazi kwa uzoefu wa mgonjwa. - Huduma hii mpya au programu mpya hutumiwaje kweli? Ni watu wangapi wanaotumia programu hiyo? Ni kwa kina gani? - Ufumbuzi bora wa kiteknolojia ni bure kama haikutani na watumiaji wake na kuwapa thamani iliyoongezwa. Ili kufikia ubunifu wa afya ambao ni kweli user-friendly, ni zaidi ya muhimu kuanzisha, kutoka hatua za mapema ya kubuni yake, zana na vifaa kujihusisha watumiaji, kama wao ni wataalamu au wafanyakazi wa afya, watendaji wa afya na wananchi. Maabara ya kuishi ni mfano wa mbinu hii ya matumizi-oriented, kwa kukuza safari ya pande zote kati ya mbuni na mtumiaji wa mwisho katika mzunguko wa maisha ya ubunifu, kwa kuongeza mbinu ya co-muundo.