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Healthcare innovations

Innovations in healthcare transform the way healthcare gets delivered and the lives of people. Healthcare is getting person-centred and people are getting proactive. Do you recognize a pattern here?

I’m talking about P-value: person-centered and proactive. But how does this translate into the evaluation of healthcare innovations and the assessment of their value? Probably most of us relate P-value to the quantification of the statistical significance of observed results. I leave the discussion about the use or misuse of the statistical p-value to others.

When I talk about P-value, I am referring to a movement within research to fill the knowledge gaps of innovators, the end-users of innovations and other stakeholders. P-value in research should transform re-search into pro-search. Let me outline this movement in some more detail. The P-value in research of healthcare innovation includes:

  • to involve the end-users of healthcare innovations from start to finish to get the study objectives and methods right;
  • to consider the diversity of stakeholders involved and the knowledge gaps identified (eg. implementation fidelity, impact, cost-effectiveness) by applying multi- and/or transdisciplinary research strategies
  • to liaise with Research & Development departments. The latter is also subject to change and is about to become Experimenting & Scaling. This expresses the need for innovations to be used by people to help them live better lives;
  • to emphasize formative evaluations and to recognize the importance of mixed methods research to execute such evaluations;
  • to speed up the pace of knowledge dissemination and to translate the results and findings to a broad audience in an understandable manner.

For the above reasons, I invite you to work with me to:

  1. raise awareness that pro-search is urgently needed to support users, innovators and others to learn and speed up healthcare innovation;
  2. train our future generation of pro-searchers and help them to make real impact (I am not referring to the scientific impact factor here);
  3. develop, fund and apply new strategies, methods and platforms for pro-search.

Let’s join forces and improve the value of healthcare innovations by expanding research towards pro-search by taking up our responsibility to society and making a difference: #p_value

Bert Vrijhoef, Chief Innovation Officer

Panaxea b.v. supports decision making in healthcare by assessing the relative advantage of healthcare innovations. Our clients include patients, health and life science innovators and investors, health technology adopters, public and private payers, and policymakers.

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