Edinburgh Napier University

  Today, the concept of technology and innovation management in healthcare is prevalent in the literature. Managers who interpret technology from a management perspective, interpret it as a significant factor in determining the starting point for an analogous investigation. However, if we consider that technology and innovation management is essential to business success and competitive advantage, one may wonder why the evaluation of technology and innovation management in healthcare organizations is still considered problematic. What makes this singular focus so elusive to define and measure? We consider the significance of technology and innovation management in a business context, and we debate a metaphysical perspective that is contrary to prevailing knowledge, but is associated with healthcare. To identify suggestions for helpful recommendations that advocate current routines and systems, we reflect on epistemic states and draw on descriptions of conditional doxastic maps that are natural extensions of parallelism between agents who believe propositions (managers) and the formal system that generates the proposition (NHS). We propose a proposition that differentiates “technology and innovation management”; this proposition is based on the comparison of knowledge that is epistemically different from a innovation decision. We believe that perspectives that are recognized, rather than implied, have a definable knowledge point of view that can be described as a specific form of technology within innovation management, which can help healthcare organizations save money and increase efficiency, productivity and patient satisfaction.