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HEALTH SERVICES MANAGEMENT RESEARCH
Volume 35, Issue 4, Pages 196-205Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/09514848211048606
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responsible innovation; system-level challenges; innovation management; innovators' perspectives; user engagement
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Innovators strive to engage stakeholders early on, address system-level benefits, and mitigate staff shortages in specialized care through collaborative processes and inclusive design. Healthcare managers can support these efforts by organizing and promoting collaborative processes, articulating key challenges, and assisting innovators in adjusting the level and intensity of care required by their innovations.
Although healthcare managers make increasingly difficult decisions about health innovations, the way they may interact with innovators to foster health system sustainability remains underexplored. Drawing on the Responsible Innovation in Health (RIH) framework, this paper analyses interviews (n=37) with Canadian and Brazilian innovators to identify: how they operationalize inclusive design processes; what influences the responsiveness of their innovation to system-level challenges; and how they consider the level and intensity of care required by their innovation. Our qualitative findings indicate that innovators seek to: I) engage stakeholders at an early ideation stage through context-specific methods combining both formal and informal strategies; 2) address specific system-level benefits but often struggle with the positioning of their solution within the health system; and 3) mitigate staff shortages in specialized care, increase general practitioners' capacity or patients and informal caregivers' autonomy. These findings provide empirical insights on how healthcare managers can promote and organize collaborative processes that harness innovation towards more sustainable health systems. By adopting a RIH-oriented managerial role, they can set in place more inclusive design processes, articulate key system-level challenges, and help innovators adjust the level and intensity of care required by their innovation.
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