Empowering Women and Strengthening Health Systems and Services Through Investing in Nursing and Midwifery Enterprise: Lessons from Lower-Income Countries: Workshop Summary by Patricia A. Cuff

Author:Patricia A. Cuff
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: The National Academies Press
Published: 2015-07-18T00:00:00+00:00

FIGURE 6-2 “Bucketing” innovations.

SOURCE: Adapted from Coye, 2014.

The scorecards created by the Global Lab for Innovation include information that adopters would like to know about each innovation in order to find “best fit” innovations for their organizations, including such questions as, “How does it increase access? Is it solving geographic problems? Is it solving linguistic problems? What is the method or the means? How does it decrease cost?” Coye noted that this last question is critical, and innovators often combine one or more of five means: (1) substituting lower-cost labor or information technology systems, (2) relocating to a lower level of care (such as in the home instead of in the clinic), (3) using telemedicine, (4) encouraging cost-effective decision making by patients or clinicians, and (5) managing the use of diagnostic tests. In addition to cost, other domains assessed include dissemination potential, access, customer centricity, and health outcomes. Future potential domains could also include empowerment and the impact on the health environment.

SUPPORTING SCALING OF IMPACT OF GLOBAL HEALTH ENTERPRISES3

The Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator at Duke (SEAD), mentioned in Chapter 3, is a program designed to build capacity and provide a conduit to convene multiple programs across the university. It has five components:

Identification of the best enterprises working in the global health space,

Entry into an accelerator platform,

Creation of an investment impact network,

Engagement of faculty and students, and

Research and data collection.

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