1st Edition
Medical Innovation Concepts, Delivery and the Future of Healthcare
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.
Foreword
List of contributors
Glossary
SECTION 1. THE INNOVATION PROCESS
1. Introduction
Rahul Kanegaonkar and James Tysome
2. The Innovation Process
Rahul Kanegaonkar
3. Intellectual Property
Emma Hodge
4. Establishing a Company
Jane Ollis
5. Prototyping
Geraint Green
6. Raising Capital: How Innovators Raise Funding to Drive Medical Innovation
Ian M. Newington
7. The Regulatory Landscape for Medical Devices in the UK and EU
Jacques Du Preez
8. Responsible Business Conduct: Why and How Healthcare Companies Should Incorporate Environmental Sustainability, Social Responsibility, and Business Integrity into their Practice
Mahmood F Bhutta and Chirantan Chaterjee
9. Research and Validation
James R Tysome
10. Marketing
Richard Anderson
11. Penetrating the National Health Service and Private Sectors
Nigel Sansom
SECTION 2. HORIZON SCANNING AND THE EMERGENCY TECHNOLOGIES
12. An Innovator’s Journey
Chris Coulson
13. Digital Health
Aditya Desai and George Karous
14. Regenerative Medicine
Richard Webb, Athina Mylona, and Alwyn D’Souza
15. Cardiology
Robert Bell
16. Genetics and Genomics Horizon Scanning
Julian Barwell
17. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Raj Jena
18. The Evolution of Robotic Surgery – Current Status and Future Concepts
Sashi S. Kommu
19. Innovation in Public Health: Tools and Methods
J. Yimmy Chow and Jonathan Fok
20. Wearable and Implantable Medical Devices – A Fantastic Voyage
Wesley Mcloughlin and Ian Mcloughlin
21. Using Technology to Improve the Outcomes of Mental Health
Raj Attavar and Vinod Muniswamy
22. Medical Imaging
Dipalee Durve
23. Medical Innovation in Ophthalmology
Ziyaad Sultan and John Bladen
Index
Biography
Rahul Kanegaonkar is the Professor of Medical Innovation at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK and a practicing Consultant ENT Surgeon at the Medway Maritime Hospital, Gillingham and the Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, London.
James Tysome is a Consultant ENT and Skull Base Surgeon at Cambridge University Hospitals, an Affiliated Associate Professor at the University of Cambridge and has an active role in all aspects of the medical innovation field.
