Characters of Innovation Management in the Primary Health Care Centers

• Authors: Alireza Aslani , Marja Naaranoja
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Innovation management in the primary health care centers is one of the important debates among the governments and academic forums. Although the number of studies in the field of innovation in health care sectors has increased over the last 10 years, little is known about the conditions for the successful implementation of innovations in the health care centers. In this paper, we review and assess the situation of Finnish health care centers from innovation management viewpoint. We try to answer one of the important questions designed by policy makers: “How can Finnish health care centers move toward systems that continuously improve their innovation and creativity?” The presented framework describes the main characters and dimensions of diffusion of ideation and innovation in the health care centers.

Keywords

EN

Health care centers; Ideation; Diffusion of creativity and innovation; Finland

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Organizacija
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 46
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 108-114

Dates

published

2013-05-01

online

2013-06-01

Contributors

author

Alireza Aslani

• Industrial Management Department, Faculty of Technology, University of Vaasa, Vaasa 65101, Finland

author

Marja Naaranoja

• Industrial Management Department, Faculty of Technology, University of Vaasa, Vaasa 65101, Finland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/orga-2013-0010