Patient-Centered Innovation: Involving Patients in Open Social Innovation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Involving patients in the health-care delivery innovation has many benefits. Open social innovation (OSI) presents a fitting lens to examine and advance patient engagement in innovation. OSI offers a participatory approach to innovation, in which diverse groups of participants collaboratively generate ideas and scale solutions on complex social challenges.

Purpose

This study: (1) describes a pilot application of OSI, in which individuals serving on a hospital's patients and family advisory councils (PFACs) were invited to participate in an innovation contest; and (2) explores the extent to which patients' beliefs about their role in innovation relate to their participation in the contest.

Methodology/approach

We conducted an innovation contest that invited

SUBMITTER: Jung OS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10990018 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature