Abstract:

This paper examines the complexities and challenges of integrating medical innovations into sustainable healthcare practices. Making new and societally beneficial healthcare technologies sustainable depends on the organization's initial set-up of continuous dynamic interactions. The article describes the set-up phases of a successful technological innovation in healthcare, which stimulated its development into a standard treatment for patients. The empirical research upon which it is based employed a qualitative case study methodology to study the adoption of a novel medical procedure for treating aortic stenosis in patients with no other treatment option. It reveals that in practice the existing and new elements of work, clinical groups and medical jurisdictions, resources and stakeholder motivations will reorganize into unexpected configurations. The article concludes that understanding the integration of medical innovations into practice necessitates a shift from considering variable factors to acknowledging the relational interdependencies in healthcare settings, thereby providing valuable insights for future integration of sustainable medical technologies and treatments.