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Bridging healthcare education and technology solution development through experiential innovation

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Healthcare education is continually evolving to meet the global healthcare needs of society. Education is of critical importance to support healthcare workers professional development while also expanding the evidence-base for healthcare professional training. There are inherent links between healthcare professionals’ educational development and patient safety. In recent years, there has been considerable emphasis on the role of technology to enhance patient safety and to support healthcare professionals in practice. However there is growing concern regarding the mismatch in healthcare professionals technological skills and how technological innovators are informed of healthcare needs. Education plays a key role to bridge this gap. Collaborating in simulated clinical learning environments, e.g. university-simulated clinical skills laboratories, can provide a valuable resource to support students’ technical competencies as they graduate into a digital healthcare environment. It also provides a safe innovation environment for healthcare solution developers to experiment with implementing technology to improve healthcare practice and faculty development. We review the literature to examine state-of-the-art in healthcare education and healthcare innovation with a view to developing a framework to guide how we can begin to successfully bridge healthcare education and technology innovation.

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  • 06 January 2018

    The third author’s name was spelled incorrectly including her e-mail address. The correct name should be Mairead Moloney.

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This work was supported with the financial support of the Science Foundation Ireland grant 13/RC/2094 and co-funded under the European Regional Development Fund through the Southern & Eastern Regional Operational Programme to Lero - the Irish Software Research Centre (http://www.lero.ie).

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  1. Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland

    Noel Carroll

  2. Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

    Ita Richardson

  3. HRI - Health Research Institute, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

    Ita Richardson

  4. Department of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

    Mairead Moloney & Pauline O’Reilly

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The original version of this article was revised: The correct name (and email) of the third author should read Mairead Moloney (Mairead.Moloney@ul.ie)

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Carroll, N., Richardson, I., Moloney, M. et al. Bridging healthcare education and technology solution development through experiential innovation. Health Technol. 8, 255–261 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12553-017-0209-z

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