Employee-Driven Innovation in Health Organizations: Insights From a Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Employee-driven innovation (EDI) occurs when frontline actors in health organizations use their firsthand experience to spur new ideas to transform care. Despite its increasing prevalence in health organizations, the organizational conditions under which EDI is operationalized have received little scholarly attention.

Methods

This scoping review identifies gaps and assembles existing knowledge on four questions: What is EDI in health organizations and which frontline actors are involved? What are the characteristics of the EDI process? What contextual factors enable or impede EDI? And what benefits does EDI bring to health organizations? We searched seven databases with keywords related to EDI in health organizations. After screening 1580 studies by title and abst

SUBMITTER: Cadeddu SBM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10425658 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature