Universities as Partners in Primary Health Care Innovation

Resumo

Universities have a unique role in the health ecosystem as providers of trained staff and discoverers of health innovations. However, often they sit in silos waiting for their rare blockbuster discoveries to change clinical care or seeing health services simply as future employers of their graduates or clinical trial sites. It is a transactional and targetted relationship. This present case study is of a primary health service Access Health and Community (AccessHC) in Australia and its university partner Swinburne University of Technology. Together they established a Kickstart Program which was to provide seed funding for small joint innovation projects generated by both organisations. One project exemplifies the approach. Swinburne who has a Design School was encouraged through the Kickstart Program to design a clinical waiting room of the future. This project started with a needs analysis. The written report was to inform the design. University staff linked with their internal University animations expertise to better communicate the needs analysis. The “Access me Not” animation was created, unknown to the staff at AccessHC. At initial presentation, the way the animation communicated was not imaginable by AccessHC. “Access me not” was submitted for the 2018 International Design Awards and received an honourable mention. However, the AccessHC staff saw other uses for the approach and contacted Swinburne to design a client journey animation for the newly introduced National D

Tipo

Artigo

Área

Saúde

Ano

2021

Idioma

Inglês

Páginas

8

Licença

CC BY

DOI

10.3389/fpubh.2021.713177

Como citar (ABNT)

MAJEWSKI, Henryk. Universities as Partners in Primary Health Care Innovation. Frontiers in Public Health, v. 9, 2021. DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.713177.