A decision-support tool for funding health innovations at a tertiary academic medical center.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To report the processes used to design and implement an assessment tool to inform funding decisions for competing health innovations in a tertiary hospital.

Methods

We designed an assessment tool for health innovation proposals with three components: "value to the institution," "novelty," and "potential for adoption and scaling." The "value to the institution" component consisted of twelve weighted value attributes identified from the host institution's annual report; weights were allocated based on a survey of the hospital's leaders. The second and third components consisted of open-ended questions on "novelty" and "barriers to implementation" to support further dialogue. Purposive literature review was performed independently by two researchers for each assessme

SUBMITTER: Cai Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11574547 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature