Innovations+in+Health+Service+Delivery+&+Organization

=**Innovations in Health Service Delivery & Organization/Organisation (N=2)**=


 * Definition 1:** A novel set of behaviors, routines and ways of working that are directed at improving health outcomes, administrative efficiency, cost effectiveness, or users' experience and that are implemented by planned and coordinated actions. Distinguish among diffusion (passive spread), dissemination (active and planned efforts to persuade target groups to adopt an innovation), implementation (active and planned efforts to mainstream an innovation within an organization) and sustainability (making an innovation routine until it reaches obsolescence).
 * Source:** Trisha Greenhalgh, Glenn Robert, Fraser MacFarlane, Paul Bate, Olivia Kyriakidou. Diffusion of innovations in service organizations: systematic review and recommendations. The Millbank Quarterly 2004; 82(4).
 * Focus:** Health Services Research


 * Definition 2:** A set of behaviours, routines and ways of working, along with any associated administrative technologies and systems, which are a) perceived as new by a proportion of key stakeholders; b) linked to the provision or support of health care; c) discontinuous with previous practice; d) directed at improving health outcomes, administrative efficiency, cost-effectivemenss, or the user experience; e) implemented by means of planned and coordinated actions by individuals, teams or organisations. Such innovations may or may not be associated with a new health technology
 * Source:** Greenhalgh T, Robert G, Bate P, Macfarlane F, Kyriakidou O. Diffusion of Innovations in Health Service Organizations. Malden MA: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2005.
 * Focus:** Health Services Research