To identify the challenges that responsible innovation in health should seek to address, this papers presents the findings of a synthesis of 254 articles that examined the challenges of health systems in 99 countries.
Lehoux, P., Roncarolo, F., Silva, H.P., Boivin, A., Denis, J.-L., Hébert, R. (2019). What health system challenges should responsible innovation in health address? Insights from an international scoping review, International Journal of Health Policy and Management.
This paper shows how an international panel of experts contributed to the development of a Responsible Innovation in Health (RIH) screening and assessment Tool.
Silva, H.P., Lehoux, P., Hagemeister, N. (2018). Developing a tool to assess responsibility in health innovation: Results from an international delphi study, Health Policy and Technology.
With the help of empirical examples, this paper explores the relationships Responsible Innovation in Health (RIH) may entertain with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).
Lehoux, P., Pacifico H.P., Pozelli Sabio, R., Roncarolo, F. (2018). The Unexplored Contribution of Responsible Innovation in Health to Sustainable Development Goals, Sustainability.
Launched in 2018, the objective of this project was to better understand how innovation developers perceive Responsible Innovation in Health (RIH).
We interviewed 31 participants working in Quebec and Ontario and trained in clinical sciences, engineering, industrial design, and/or entrepreneurship. To stimulate reflections on the topic, participants visited a visual repertoire developed by our team that contains 9 examples of innovations that are potentially responsible and that fall within one of the following categories of healthcare:
Participants also shared their perspective on the RIH conceptual framework, mainly the 5 value domains:
A 1st article describes how health innovators perceive RIH and underscores how “desirability” and “feasibility” go hand in hand. In other words, the implementation of RIH is first and foremost a pragmatic issue and not only a question of principles or moral sensibility.
A 2nd article focuses on the systemic obstacles confronting innovators who seek to develop eco-responsible health innovations. Potential solutions are discussed in order to transform what is currently defined as a double burden into a single duty to care.
A 3rd article examines the quality and safety dilemmas raised by open source and Do-It-Yourself health innovations. Policy recommendations are made to help patients safely benefit from these innovations that often meet their needs.
A 4th article, guided by Tronto’s (1993) ethic of care framework and Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI), focuses on the ways in which health innovation designers reason around care and responsibility and translate these notions into their work. The exploratory findings provide a novel empirical basis for scholars to conceptualize health innovation designers as ‘care-makers’ and to integrate designers within the care relationship alongside caregivers and care-receivers.
Project Lead: Lysanne Rivard
This article introduces an integrative RIH framework drawing on the RRI literature, the international literature on health systems as well as specific bodies of knowledge that shed light on key dimensions of health innovations.
Silva, H.P., Lehoux, P., Miller, F.A., Denis, J.-L. (2018). Introducing responsible innovation in health: a policy-oriented framework, Health Research Policy and Systems.
Drawing on a prospective public deliberation study, this article offers sociological insights into the ways in which members of the public reason around assistive actions, be they performed by humans, machines or both.
Lehoux, P., Grimard, D. (2018). When robots care: Public deliberations on how technology and humans may support independent living for older adults, Social Science & Medicine.
Response to three comments on the article « Providing value to new health technology: the early contribution of entrepreneurs, investors, and regulatory agencies» (Lehoux P., Miller F., Daudelin G, Denis J., 2017).
Lehoux, P., Miller, F.A., Daudelin, G., Denis, J.-L. (2018). Why learning how to chase butterflies matters: A response to recent commentaries, International Journal of Health Policy and Management.
Lysanne holds a BA in Psychology (Univerty of Ottawa), an MA in Child Studies (Concordia University) and a PhD in Educational Studies (McGill University). Health, well-being, gender equality, and innovative practices that value and integrate participant’s knowledge and priorities are at the heart of her research.
This article looks at what kind of research was conducted on Health System challenges, where it was performed, in which health sectors and on which populations. It also identifies the types of challenge that were most present and how they varied across countries
Roncarolo, F., Boivin, A., Denis, J.-L., Hébert, R., Lehoux, P. (2017). What do we know about the needs and challenges of health systems? A scoping review of the international literature, BMC Health Services Research.
This article examines how members of the public conceive of the relationship between responsibility and prospective health technologies.
Lehoux, P., Miller, F.A., Grimard, D., Gauthier, P. (2017). Anticipating health innovations in 2030–2040: Where does responsibility lie for the publics? Public Understanding of Science.