Employee-driven innovation in health organizations: insights from a scoping review
- May 6
- 1 min read
Employee-driven innovation (EDI) occurs when frontline actors in health organizations use their firsthand experience to spur new ideas to transform care.
EDI was often described as a participatory, learning innovation process involving frontline clinical and non-clinical staff and managers. Majority EDI were top-down, often driven by the organization’s focus on participatory improvement and innovation and research-based initiatives. Five categories of methods is used in top-down EDI, two thirds of which includes a learning, a team and/or a digital component. Hybrid EDI often involves a team-based component. Bottom-up EDI emerged spontaneously from the work of frontline actors.
In certain resource-constrained contexts, frugal solutions are becoming more relevant to the healthcare sector115-117; it would be interesting to explore how bottom-up or hybrid EDI can produce such innovations.
