Responding to the call for Innovation: How do we develop health professional’s skills and operationalise innovation?

Abstract

In a recent online open forum of the Association of University Programs in Health Administration (AUPHA) two of our American colleagues were discussing the need for a greater focus in health management curricula on ‘transformation’. [1] They indicated that some time ago the American College of Healthcare Executives identified key skill areas for healthcare leaders as ‘operational, people, and transformation’, suggesting that good progress and focus on the first two had been achieved while more focus on the third was required. The discussion suggested that ‘the area of transformation’ needed to ‘specifically include skills in intrapreneurship and also innovation’. ....