Bridging Industry Languages
It takes healthcare on average 17 years to adopt new ideas into common practice. To close that gap, we need to translate between healthcare and innovation — humbly, and across silos.
How can we align a slowly adopting healthcare industry with a rapidly evolving technology industry? It takes about 17 years on average for healthcare to adopt new ideas into common practice. Let's take a step back and see how our world has changed over the last 5 years — or even 10.
The translation problem
The translation between healthcare professionals and innovators is often lost. Truly understanding the problems that exist in healthcare is complex, and isolating solutions to single problems often misses the mark in improving care delivery.
Many of the problems in healthcare are connected. Sometimes deploying a single solution can alleviate many of the connected problems at once. Understanding how to deploy solutions for this effect requires collaboration — and a willingness to learn from one another.
A higher bar for innovation
Until we can deploy innovations in healthcare that provide evidence and accountability of improving patient health, economic vitality, and workflow efficiency, we are living in a delusion of self-grandeur and only adding to the problem.
The importance of aligning stakeholders involved in deploying new innovations is becoming more evident. However, learning how we can solve this problem has not been deeply explored. As an industry we need to humble ourselves at each step to learn from others and translate knowledge and experience — so innovators can provide healthcare professionals with the tools they truly need to improve workflows, patient health, economic vitality, and resilience.
Working on it together
RRSP Industries, with its partners Skillwork, Explosive Brands Limited, and others, is working together to explore this problem. Read the full article on LinkedIn for the background and our approach.