Business and Healthcare Management

Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Healthcare Essay Questions

ESSAY QUESTIONS:

1. Discuss the context in which relevant Health and Social Care legislation and policy initiatives provided RMBC with the impetus to invest further in their telecare programme. (25 marks)

Assessment Criteria

• Knowledge and Understanding
• Discuss and evaluate characteristics of innovation and entrepreneurship Knowledge and Understanding
• Discuss the impact of government policy initiative on innovation and entrepreneurship

Points to Consider

• Context for implementation of a telecare programme such as changing demographics, cost of care, patient/ service user expectations
• Technological developments and other factors that are changing the way healthcare is delivered

2. Identify relevant legislation/ policies that enable telecare/ telehealth 2. Evaluate the impact of the legislation and policy initiative of the innovation and the entrepreneurship of RMBC. (25 marks)

Assessment Criteria

• Knowledge and Understanding
• Discuss and evaluate characteristics of innovation and entrepreneurship
• Knowledge and Understanding
• Discuss the impact of government policy initiative on innovation and entrepreneurship

Points to Consider

• Identify and evaluate impact of relevant legislation and / or policies on the telecare innovation and entrepreneurship
• The ethical dilemmas concerning telecare/ telehealth

3. Discuss and evaluate the characteristic of innovation and entrepreneurship then apply it to RMBC’s innovation –the telecare initiative. (25 marks)

Assessment Criteria

• Knowledge and Understanding
• Discuss and evaluate characteristics of innovation and entrepreneurship
• Knowledge and Understanding
• Discuss the impact of government policy initiative on innovation and entrepreneurship

Points to Consider

• Provide definitions before discussion and evaluation of characteristics of innovation
• Discuss what technology and innovation means in relation to healthcare
• The stages of the entrepreneurial cycle.

4. Examine the different types of pivots in the entrepreneurial lifecycle and apply them to RMBC’s. (25 marks)

 Assessment Criteria

• Knowledge and Understanding
• Discuss and evaluate characteristics of innovation and entrepreneurship
• Knowledge and Understanding
• Discuss the impact of government policy initiative on innovation and entrepreneurship

Points to Consider

• The ‘pivot’ and perseverance concepts of the Learn Startup methodology
• Theories, methods and tools for innovation
• How RMBC connects the service users’ needs to the innovation process