THE IMPORTANCE OF INNOVATION IN MEDICINE

Abstract

Innovation can be defined as invention + adoption + diffusion. In healthcare, it may be a novel idea, product, service or care pathway that has clear benefits when compared to what is currently done. Successful innovations often possess two key qualities: they are both usable and desirable. How can proven innovations be quickly and effectively adopted as best practice and taken up across the whole healthcare system? How can the commercial success of our ideas be realised at home rather than abroad, as has too often been the case? This review explores important issues of funding, information governance, interoperability, medical device regulation, procurement, clinical prototyping and the systemic challenge of encouraging and scaling innovation. A legal and methodological definition is given, the essence and modern classifications of innovation are highlighted. An analysis of trends and factors of economic growth of the state in modern conditions was carried out, taking into account the use of innovative technologies. It has been established that innovations make it possible to provide better medical care, achieve a therapeutic result faster and, therefore, restore or improve the patient’s original physical status (medical component). They lead to a higher degree of satisfaction with the medical care of the population (social component) and are aimed at paying off the diagnostic and treatment process (economic component). Innovations in healthcare are the end result of the introduction of innovations (discoveries, results of research and development work) in order to obtain economic and social effects. Innovations in the healthcare sector are intended to create effective medicines, modern medical equipment and equipment, new medical diagnostic, therapeutic, rehabilitation technologies, or organizational processes. Innovative development of healthcare requires: the interaction of medical science and practical healthcare, the implementation and implementation of scientific innovations that are in demand in medical activities, the training of professionals capable of implementing scientific developments. Innovation is the process of developing new approaches, technologies and ways of working. This concept is equally applicable both to the means and technologies of work and to the way organizations or individuals behave, work, act. Any innovation starts with a good idea, but it means much more. Innovation is the process of turning a good idea into something that can be used, implemented or achieved and, if possible, bear fruit in the form of better health care and disease prevention. The innovation process is the process of transforming scientific knowledge into innovation, which can be represented as a sequential chain of events, as a result of which innovation is transformed from an idea into a specific product, technology or service and spreads through practical use. Inthe innovation process, economic relations are realized between the creators of innovations, owners of resources and consumers of innovations. These relationships are mediated by the movement of venture capital and information.