Advancing health-care innovation is not without challenges, especially amid the differing interests.
That’s why the Ivey International Centre for Health Innovation hosted a panel session on November 9 to discuss the obstacles and opportunities in the future of health care. Entitled Leading Innovation in Health Systems, the panel featured Dr. Gillian Kernaghan, President and CEO of St. Joseph’s Health Care, London; Lisa Purdy, a Partner with Deloitte who specializes in health-system issues; and Dan Ross, the former Chair of the London Health Sciences Centre Foundation Board of Directors.
Cheryl Ying Yip, a student research analyst with the Ivey International Centre for Health Innovation and student in Western’s Master’s of Management of Applied Science program, shared her reflections on the event in a blog entitled, The Innovation Battle. In it she said she learned from the panel that innovation in health care requires alignment of leaders, stakeholders, objectives, and interests.
“Innovating in health care truly begins when we can confidently say our health system meets the definition of a system: an alignment of connected parts forming a complex whole,” she said.
