Instilling Innovation in Medical Practices

For global advancements to come into being, core concepts - specifically in the medical industry - include creativity, entrepreneurship, and innovation.

For global advancements to come into being, core concepts - specifically in the medical industry - include creativity, entrepreneurship, and innovation.

 

To improve the treatments being conducted in the medical sector, it is important that creativity needs to be utilized as the first step for innovation, which tends to come from anywhere and at different levels within an organization. Innovation is necessary for healthcare and in the future, especially when keeping in mind the growing demands on the healthcare system that are being driven by the changes in patients' needs.

 

In addition to that, there is a dire need for personalized patient care - which is why scientific aspects and technological advancements are becoming the core of medical innovation. Consequently, worldwide medical experts and leaders in the medical industry are constantly working towards creating an environment that can empower and support teams and individuals to become more productive within the industry.

 

Being able to implement said environments, these individuals and teams can focus on their creativity, and by nurturing that mindset, you can enable innovation in their work - driving their entrepreneurial spirit to its full potential. This also helps them to apply the core business principles to their work, leading to the development of new inventions, products, or services into commercially viable medical innovations that can change the way of the medical sector forever.

 

Fortunately, innovation in healthcare has already started to become a widespread idea among people. Consider the work of Dr. David Douglas on Traumatic Brain Injury.

 

Dr.David Douglas is a revered medical professional in the medical industry, holding a B.S. in physics, an M.D., a M.P.H. in Epidemiology, and is a triple board certified in diagnostic radiology, neuroradiology, and nuclear medicine. One of the major reasons why Dr. Douglas's efforts have been considered so exceptional is because, at the moment, he is one of the only few neuroradiologist-nuclear medicine physicians in the whole world.

 

Having performed over 600 interventional radiology procedures on the brain, neck, face, spines, torso, and more, Dr. Douglas continues to move past his limits each time. He has performed over 250,000 interpretations of M.R.I. scans, C.T. scans, P.E.T. scans, and x-ray examinations, diagnosing conditions that include traumatic brain injuries, strokes, brain tumors, brain aneurysms, and multiple sclerosis. In addition, he has also worked on more than 150 nuclear medicine therapy procedures for cancer patients.

 

When it comes to his clinical research, being a military physician has allowed Dr.Douglas to experience way too many soldiers who have been suffering from traumatic brain injury. Some of the ways he tried to resolve the dilemma of this disease is when he was serving as an adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor at Stanford University, where he performed T.B.I. research. He focused his work on the Stanford football team to better understand how repetitive microtrauma can affect one's brain.

 

The results that he has produced over the years have allowed him to become well-recognized in the field of traumatic brain injury research, as he was the lead author in high-impact journals. Naturally, Dr. Douglas has won a number of awards for his phenomenal work over the years, including the RSNA Fellow Research Award.


Patrick John

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