Transforming Healthcare Delivery: A Guide to Innovation and Patient Experience

By Barry P. McMahon and Paul Coughlan

ISBN: 9780367641122, 9781000899313

Published: July 19, 2023

Language: English

Publisher: CRC Press

Author: Barry P. McMahon, Paul Coughlan

Category: Medicine, Healthcare, Innovation, Patient Experience

Keywords: healthcare innovation, patient experience, medical device innovation, collaborative strategic improvement, network action learning

Description: This book provides a unique framework to conceptualize innovation in healthcare and medicine. It outlines how creative thinking and design concepts can be used to innovate in providing an enhanced patient experience. The authors, Dr. Barry McMahon and Dr. Paul Coughlan, have proven track-records with innovation, in education settings and as entrepreneurs. They present a clear interdisciplinary approach, complemented with practical case studies set in the context of the challenges facing healthcare delivery in the 21st century.

About the Authors:

Dr. Barry McMahon: Dr. Barry McMahon has a national and international reputation as an Academic Medical Physicist in the fields of novel physiological measurement and medical device innovation and design. He is the co-inventor of the Functional Lumen Imaging Probe (FLIP) technique later commercialised as EndoFLIP. He was the Director of the Innovation Academy at Trinity College Dublin from 2012 to 2017. Since 2020 he is advising Children’s Health Ireland on innovation practice. In 2021, he retired as Chief Physicist/Clinical Engineer at Tallaght Hospital, Ireland and currently runs his own innovation-consulting group Electric Mindset Ltd.

Dr. Paul Coughlan: Dr. Paul Coughlan is Professor in Operations Management and Co-Director of Faculty at Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin. His research explores collaborative strategic improvement of operations through network action learning. He was the Director of the Innovation Academy at Trinity College Dublin from 2010 to 2012. He is a founding director of a research-based spin-out venture, Easy Hydro Ltd.

Product Details:

ISBN: 9780367641122, 9781000899313

Published: July 19, 2023

Language: English

Publisher: CRC Press