title: Innovation in Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care: An Exponential Convergence Toward Transformation of Care.
abstract: The word innovation is derived from the Latin noun innovatus, meaning renewal or change. Although companies such as Google and Apple are nearly synonymous with innovation, virtually all sectors in our current lives are imbued with yearn for innovation. This has led to organizational focus on innovative strategies as well as recruitment of chief innovation officers and teams in a myriad of organizations. At times, however, the word innovation seems like an overused cliché, as there are now more than 5,000 books in print with the word "innovation" in the title. More recently, innovation has garnered significant attention in health care. The future of health care is expected to innovate on a large scale in order to deliver sustained value for an overall transformative care. To date, there are no published reports on the state of the art in innovation in pediatric health care and in particular, pediatric cardiac intensive care. This report will address the issue of innovation in pediatric medicine with relevance to cardiac intensive care and delineate possible future directions and strategies in pediatric cardiac intensive care.
authors.affiliation: Children's Hospital of Atlanta, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, Sibley Heart Center Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
authors.forename: Kevin O
authors.initials: KO
authors.lastname: Maher
authors.affiliation: Sharon Disney Lund Medical Intelligence and Innovation Institute (MI3), Children's Hospital of Orange County, Orange, CA, USA Honors Cooperative Program in Biomedical Informatics and Artificial Intelligence, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA achang007@aol.com.
authors.forename: Anthony C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.affiliation: Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, Lucille Packard Children's Hospital, Palo Alto, CA, USA Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Shin
authors.affiliation: Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, Children's Hospital of Orange County, Orange, CA, USA Department of Pediatrics, University of California at Irvine School of Medicine, Irvine, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Juliette
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hunt
authors.affiliation: Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, OH, USA Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
authors.forename: Hector R
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Wong
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003325:Coronary Care Units / Q000639:trends*; D003422:Critical Care / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000639:trends*; D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans
keywords: congenital heart disease (CHD); congenital heart surgery; innovation; intensive care