Comprehensive Innovation Trajectory at The National Center for Minimum Access Surgery
Keywords:
organizational innovation, minimally invasive surgical procedures, hospital accreditation, quality management.Abstract
Introduction: Innovation in health care is a driving force in the search for a balance between cost limitation and quality of medical care; today comprehensive innovation that does not neglect any of its dimensions, emerging as a paradigm. It is developed at its different levels: country, institution and the people who take it to reality.
Objective: To study the trail of innovation that, with a comprehensive approach, has led the National Center for Minimum Access Surgery to become an unavoidable reference when talking about hospital institutions with a high level of quality of service, in favor of the public health of the country.
Positioning: Comprehensive innovation, which combines the introduction of medical technologies with organizational innovations in management systems, allows achieving important results in the quality of medical care and the training of competent professionals in minimally invasive therapeutic and surgical procedures.
Conclusions: The analysis carried out allowed us to define four stages in the innovation trajectory of the National Center for Minimum Access Surgery: Nucleus (1980-1992), Foundation (1993-2005), Consolidation (2006-2015), Accreditation and Certification (2016- 2022). The essential elements of each stage are characterized up to reaching the current one, in which the results of this institution’s organizational innovation and medical technologies are recognized at different instances, and they contribute to providing high-quality health services.
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