Healthcare, benefiting from innovation

Next to these direct benefits of embedded lead users, managers need to take some potential drawbacks into consideration. Embedded lead users motivation is partly related to their own benefits associated with expected solutions to their own problems. This includes high commitment to find solutions, which alleviate these needs. In general scholars have pointed out that innovativeness of employees may lead to conflicts with co-workers who want to prevent innovative change in order avoid individual stress (cf. Janssen 2003). This may even be more salient for embedded lead users who show high levels of product involvement and derive personal benefits from innovation. One of the managers in the individual healthcare industiy pointed out this potential conflict ... 

As should be clear from above, there are many potential tensions in the drug safety system - e.g. risk vs. benefit, individual vs. population good, potential therapeutic gain from innovation vs. uncertainty. These are set in a background of commercial and political imperatives, the latter largely being the economics of healthcare. The need for an ethical approach and ethical safeguards is therefore manifest. 

I place these issues for the consideration and practice of engineers and technologists, with the hope that the healthcare system will further significantly benefit from their long-lasting contributions and innovations within the triangle of importance. 

The healthcare industry is benefiting from increasing innovation in the mobile and tablet platforms. More and more healthcare organizations are realizing the potential of... 

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