Innovation Lifecycle Management: Innovation Evidence Trustworthiness

Systematic approach to evaluating the trustworthiness of any innovation is key to achieving the goals in relation to patient care and satisfaction. Innovation practitioners at HDOs face persistent issues in accumulating the required knowledge around innovation evaluation. The absence of an evaluation framework can lead to implementation of technologies that make fraudulent claims. This can increase the likelihood of risks and adverse patient outcomes that can be fatal.

An evidence-based, peer-reviews-driven approach could be one such framework to evaluate the trustworthiness of innovations to drive the diffusion without jeopardizing the overall outcome. Significant research questions to evaluate the credibility of any innovation, will help to make a distinction between fraudulent and genuine ones based on whether

(a) The research went through a peer-review approval

(b) Lacks evidence and provides biased opinions

OR, (c) Whether the research just considered correlation and lacks causal explanation