Bringing innovation to your facility

Fusing a new idea to an old system

Innovation involves doing something differently than how it’s normally done; a new device, policy, or program. And there are plenty of new evidence-based practices, revolutionary studies, and groundbreaking toolkits promising to lift healthcare to new heights.

But of all the innovations you’ve heard about in the past year, how many of them has your facility adopted or made plans to adopt? And of the ones you’ve adopted, how many have worked?

Taking a good idea for your own seems like it ought to be simple. But in reality, many facilities struggle to adopt new innovations—or worse, they give up on ideas they didn’t come up with themselves.

So how do you go about taking someone else’s innovation and incorporating it at your facility? How do you get staff and leadership to buy into a new way of doing things?

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