Social innovations for healthcare supplement
We want to identify the most important work studying social innovations and case examples that have made a significant impact on health outcomes. Find out more.
BMJ Innovations
is an online journal, covering research on emerging digital health, medical devices and innovations.
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Frugal innovations special issue
Read our October special issue focusing on low-resource functional ways to improve health and patient outcomes globally.
Healthcare innovation in Vietnam
Read our special supplement with a focus on what Vietnam is doing right in its response to covid-19 and beyond.
BMJ Innovations Podcast
Listen to our first series ‘Leaders in Innovation’ bringing you interviews with some of the world’s top leaders in innovation, by host Dr Helen Surana.
Why you should publish with us
Innovations that can reduce the impact of healthcare on the environment
Healthcare is one of the most polluting industries, responsible for nearly 5% of total global greenhouse gases and generating over a tonne of waste per hospital bed each year. The COVID-19 pandemic has also greatly exacerbated the use of single-use plastics which have limited potential for recycling.
BMJ Innovations is planning a special collection of papers in 2023 to showcase the innovations that can reduce the impact of healthcare on the environment.
Most Read Articles
Medical devices:
Real-time continuous measurement of lactate through a minimally invasive microneedle patch: a phase I clinical study6 April 2022
Digital health:
Machine-learning algorithm to non-invasively detect diabetes and pre-diabetes from electrocardiogram27 December 2022
Processes and systems:
Cleaning up plastics in healthcare waste: the transformative potential of leadership29 March 2023
Processes and systems:
Social innovation in health, community engagement, financing and outcomes: qualitative analysis from the social innovation in health initiative11 July 2022
Early-stage innovation report:
’Padayon’: a new digital health model for diabetes and hypertension in rural Philippines27 December 2022
COVID-19
Digital health:
Feasibility and acceptability of Saheli, a WhatsApp Chatbot, on COVID-19 vaccination among pregnant and breastfeeding women in rural North India22 August 2023
Digital health:
‘It all stems from relationship’: effectiveness of a crowdsourcing contest to elicit community ideas on how to build trust between healthcare providers and community about COVID-1923 September 2022
Processes and systems:
Implementation of a community-based referral project to improve access to emergency obstetric and newborn care in Rohingya population during COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh24 May 2022
Medical devices:
Effectiveness of Ehteraz digital contact tracing app versus conventional contact tracing in managing the outbreak of COVID-19 in the State of Qatar3 May 2022
Processes and systems:
Management model of the COVID-19 pandemic in socially vulnerable communities14 July 2022
Open Access
Digital health:
Development and introduction of a mixed realities playkit: decreasing the incidence of general anaesthesia for paediatric MRI7 November 2023
Digital health:
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency25 October 2023
Medical devices:
Treatment of medial tibial stress syndrome using an investigational lower leg brace. A pilot for a randomised controlled trial.28 April 2023
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Digital health:
Development and introduction of a mixed realities playkit: decreasing the incidence of general anaesthesia for paediatric MRI7 November 2023
Digital health:
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency25 October 2023
Medical devices:
From feasibility study to randomised control trial: the evolution of a novel neuraxial procedure device27 July 2023