Medical Innovation: Concepts, Delivery and the Future of Healthcare

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An essential text for innovators, this accessible book explains how medical and healthcare professionals and students who are new to innovation in healthcare can best progress their innovation projects and how those interested in healthcare innovation can develop an improved understanding of novel treatments and developments. The book provides a clear framework for the innovation pathway, describing step-by-step how projects are taken from concept to marketing, and also includes a current assessment of emerging technologies that will influence medical innovation in the future. Key Features: Wide-ranging and comprehensive coverage of the field, from digital health and AI technologies, through stem-cell applications and robotic surgery, to specialty-specific innovations including those in cardiology, public health and ophthalmology Illustrated with real-life examples of success and failure and what can be learned from these projects Reflects a greater emphasis on clinical innovation within health systems and its inclusion in undergraduate and postgraduate medical curriculae and medically related courses Supports national and international initiatives to encourage innovation in healthcare and maximize the novel ideas generated by university staff and students, as well as practicing clinicians Ideal for students at both undergraduate and postgraduate level and medical practitioners and allied medical health professionals, it will also be of interest to clinical innovators and healthcare businesses seeking to increase uptake of their products both in the UK and internationally. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents Foreword Contributors Glossary SECTION 1: THE INNOVATION PROCESS 1. Introduction Case Study A: D+R hearing 2. The innovation process Case Study B: Generation medics Case Study C: The I-gel Case Study D: The Guy’s Hospital Multidisciplinary Balance Service 3. Intellectual property 4. Establishing a company Case Study E: Organa Case Study F: Rhinamite 5. Prototyping Case Study G: Docbook.co.uk 6. Raising capital: How innovators raise funding to drive medical innovation 7. The regulatory landscape for medical devices in the UK and EU Case Study H: D+R balance 8. Responsible business conduct: Why and how healthcare companies should incorporate environmental sustainability, social responsibility, and business integrity into their practice 9. Research and validation 10. Marketing 11. Penetrating the National Health Service and private sectors Case Study I: Kent and Medway Prehab – Telehealth-delivered home-based patient optimisation SECTION 2: HORIZON SCANNING AND THE EMERGENCY TECHNOLOGIES 12. An innovator’s journey 13. Digital health Case Study J: Flexio, remote physiotherapy 14. Regenerative medicine 15. Cardiology 16. Genetics and genomics horizon scanning Case Study K: PinPoint 17. Artificial intelligence and machine learning 18. The evolution of robotic surgery – Current status and future concepts 19. Innovation in public health: Tools and methods 20. Wearable and implantable medical devices – A fantastic voyage Case Study L: An assistive device for those with hearing loss 21. Using technology to improve the outcomes of mental health 22. Medical imaging 23. Medical innovation in ophthalmology Index