Resources

Generating, adopting and implementing health care innovations are complex processes. The following resources are designed to inform and guide your efforts.

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Will It Work Here? A Decisionmaker's Guide to Adopting Innovations

The Guide helps users determine if an innovation would be a good fit—or an appropriate stretch—for their health care organization by asking a series of questions. It links users to actionable Web-based tools and presents case studies that illustrate how other organizations have addressed these questions. Users will be able to answer the four overarching questions the Guide poses:

Does this innovation fit?
Should we do it here?
Can we do it here?
How can we do it here?

Authors:
Cindy Brach, AHRQ; Nancy Lenfestey, Amy Roussel, Jacqueline Amoozegar, and Asta Sorenson, RTI International

Download this Guide as a PDF
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New Expert Commentary: New Guide Charts Course for Navigating Challenges of Innovation Adoption

Webinar: Using AHRQ's Health Care Innovations Exchange to Take on the Challenges of Care Delivery

Webinar held on May 12, 2008

Presenters:
Carolyn M. Clancy, M.D., AHRQ Director
Mary Nix, M.S., AHRQ Health Care Innovations Exchange Project Officer
Michael Leu, M.D., M.S.; Linda Wick, N.P.; Mark Redding, M.D. (Innovators)

-	Podcast: AHRQ Unveils a New Forum for Exchanging Innovative Health Care Ideas Speaker: Paul Plsek, DirectedCreativity™, Member of Editorial Board (Adobe Flash Player is required to listen to the podcast. Download a free copy here.)

Last updated: September 29, 2008.