Enabling health technology innovation in Canada: Barriers and facilitators in policy and regulatory processes

Maggie MacNeil, Melissa Koch, Ayse Kuspinar, Don Juzwishin, Pascale Lehoux and Paul Stolee

Health Policy, 2019, vol. 123, issue 2, 203-214

Abstract: Objectives:Health care innovation and technologies can improve patient outcomes, but policies and regulations established to protect the public interest may become barriers to improvement of health care delivery. We conducted a scoping review to identify policy and regulatory barriers to, and facilitators of, successful innovation and adoption of health technologies (excluding pharmaceutical and information technologies) in Canada.

Keywords: Health technology; Innovation; Health policy; Canada (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2018.09.018

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