Conceptual frame work of innovation

As formerly mentioned; Innovation is the implementation of a new or significantly improved product (good or service), or process, a new marketing method, or a new organizational method in business practices, workplace organization or external relations [UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 2005]. From this definition concluded that innovation as a technique is not only create new different or significantly improved products or services, also it is more closer to the way going to be implemented, in formal way called methodology.

 UNESCO makes the distinction among the four types of innovation as follows:

Product innovation: introduction of a good or service that is new or significantly improved with respect to its characteristics or intended uses. This includes significant improvements in technical specifications, components and materials, incorporated software, user friendliness or other functional characteristics.

Process innovation: implementation of a new or significantly improved production or delivery method. This includes significant changes in techniques, equipment and/or software. The customer does not usually pay directly for process, but the process is required to deliver a product or service and to manage the relationship with the various stakeholders.

Marketing innovation: implementation of a new marketing method involving significant changes in product design or packaging, product placement, product promotion or pricing.

Organizational innovation: implementation of a new organizational method in the firm’s business practices, workplace organization or external relations.

Clearly; different forms of innovation serve the innovation process itself and cover most of work domains as end result, procedure, identify end result in order to get proper and accurate goal achievement. Whereas that paying effort separately does not produce awaited end value could be received. Healthcare innovation carries little differences belong to conceptual work concepts; product, process, or structure [Varkey, et al., 2008]. The products is what patient paying for whether product or medical service with other opinions including procedures and delivery routes. Structural innovation usually affects the internal and external infrastructure, and creates new business models;

Healthcare innovation can be defined as the introduction of a new concept, idea, service, process, or product aimed at improving treatment, diagnosis, education, outreach, prevention and research, and with the long term goals of improving quality, safety, outcomes, efficiency and costs.

Information technologies still considered the key for whole process of innovation in healthcare. According to Gupta (2008);

‘while hospitals and other care providers have long been quick to adopt breakthrough technology in medical devices, procedures and treatments, far less attention has focused on innovations in networking and communications. This is partly because of concerns about breaches in security and patient privacy, and because healthcare until recently was a service always performed locally and in person’ full health :)