Table 2 Summary of competition submissions
From: Reverse innovation: an opportunity for strengthening health systems
Proposal | Type of innovation | Emerging market where innovation has been applied | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
1) | Technology | India | An effective, non-expert operable, non-invasive cardiovascular screening tool to be used by general medical practitioners. |
2) | Process | Singapore & Japan | Through the means of an app, the patient and their families would be able to centralize all administrative tasks of a hospital visit based on their services required and receive responses. |
3) | Process | Thailand, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Ethiopia, & Tanzania | Use of a community health worker (CHW) model who handle routine tasks in primary care, where intensive follow-up is needed to ensure patients follow the best treatments. |
4) | Education | India, China, South Africa | Development of a set of cross-cultural educational and communication tools for menopausal women of differing ethnicities to improve communications between women and their caregivers. |
5) | Process | Thailand | Decreasing isolation to improve mental wellness while promoting healthy eating habits, and encouraging volunteerism for seniors. |
6) | Technology | Kenya & Bangladesh | Biometric authentication of ID and key health information, and access health records or caregiving requirements via data or even SMS. |
7) | Technology/mHealth | Malawi | Apply the innovative use of radio and new information and communication technologies—mobile phones, podcasting and cloud-based interactive voice response services—for health promotion. |
8) | Technology | N/A | The use of red lights at night in hospital rooms to permit the secretion of melatonin and help keeping a good sleep-wake cycle. |
9) | Technology | India | A non-mydriatic eye prescreening tool which can detect glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy and corneal disease with high sensitivity, and minimal invasiveness. |
10) | Process | India, South Africa & Pakistan | A pictogram-based toolkit to improve wayfinding on hospital campuses, and a simplified discharge summary designed with and for patients to improve the comprehension of medication and care instructions. |
11) | mHealth | N/A | mHealth solution to the underuse of radiotherapy in end-of-life cancer patients. |
12) | Technology/mHealth | Southern and southwestern Asia, Tanzania, Uganda, and Ghana, Serbia, Peru | The use of mobile technology or m-health to transfer information to new mothers of late preterm infants, with focus on health promotion to improve efficiency in care following discharge from hospital. |