Ontario' academic hospitals creates tool to tackles barriers to innovation adoption

In a survey across Council of Academic Hospitals of Ontario (CAHO) members, Ontario’s 23 academic research hospitals, 76% of respondents identified policies, directives and procurement rules as major hurdles to innovation adoption within their organizations. In response to this, the CAHO created this document to help hospitals pull innovation into the province’s healthcare system faster, improving patient care and health system efficiency. It offers straightforward explanations and resources to facilitate hospital procurement of new health technologies or innovations. CAHO is also calling all innovators that will help improve care and increase efficiency in Ontario’s health system to submit a request for a validation test site.