• On nov, 15, 2007
•  pboinot

In September 2006, a two day workshop brought together participants with different perspectives to discuss the challenges facing health innovation.  

• On nov, 15, 2007
•  plehoux

What health innovations are we talking about? Although innovation in health care is often equated with technology, it is in fact a change that may refer to products and/or processes (OECD, 2005). An innovation may be radical (e.g., the discovery of x-rays) or incremental (e.g., the refinement of computed tomography scanners). It may emerge from […]

• On nov, 15, 2007
•  plehoux

Social and political implications of health innovation matter When thinking about the social and political implications of health innovations, one cannot assume that they solely materialize around technology or after its implementation. Rather, they are part of a given innovation. There is indeed no technology without sociopolitical properties, since both its existence and use require […]