On Social Innovation in Health Settings with Community Network

Abstract

The existence of innovation, in any setting, implies progress and improvement. We are ageing as a population and more likely to suffer from chronic diseases as we get older. As a result, our healthcare systems are under increasing demand for costly and complicated care. Hospital management teams face impossible choices to balance cost and quality of care. Fundamental to the understanding of social innovation that we present here is that it means innovation in social relations. Social innovation occurs because socially innovative actions, strategies, practices and processes arise whenever problems of poverty, exclusion, segregation and deprivation or opportunities for improving living conditions cannot find satisfactory solutions in the 'institutionalized field' of public or private action. Qualitative methodology with case study approach is used for this empirical paper. Based on the field action projects a few case studies were done on Yen Mitra, a project to facilitate low cost treatment for BPL families by Yenepoya Medical College, Mangalore. The project includes Yen Sahayog which is health care extension to Orphanages, Destitute Care Centres, Blindness Control Programme with the support from District Blindness Control Society, School the villages. The case study results show that, these innovative ideas helped poor Children Health Screening Programme and Rural Camp for the poor people in people to get easy way of medical treatment and free checkup