The Imperative Innovations in Healthcare Organizations

Year 2018, Volume: 3 Issue: 2, 19 - 33, 19.03.2018

Hüseyin Arı

Abstract

Social pressure and populism about the sense of state obligation to provide health care is an essential problem that must be solved. But, in republic state, it cannot be easy to take care of. So, it is sought for the solutions in organizational level in context of productivity, quality, reducing cost, role of health workforce. From this point, changing the method of measuring productive for any health organization to allocate the resources properly, the ways of improving quality by reducing cost, empowerment of health staff, which increases leadership and engagement to ensure improvements for more sustainable healthcare systems are new innovation areas. When considered that the funds which is financed for healthcare expenses cannot be increased because of the fact that there is global recession since 2008. So, global production has been depleting. Accordingly, the aim of this study is to investigate new imperative innovation areas in healthcare organizations for sustainable healthcare system.

Keywords

Imperative Innovation, Quality and Reducing Costs, The role of healthcare workers, Enhancing Leadership and Engagement

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