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. 2021 Aug 27;21:878. doi: 10.1186/s12913-021-06923-1

Table 1.

Different types of innovation used by leaders in primary care

Themes Codes
Innovative technological solutions for communication

❖ Workplace by Facebook

❖ Teams

❖ Patient administration software

❖ Staff communication software

❖ Communication unit for interaction between next-of-kin and patients (video, messages, and pictures)

❖ Recruitment of new staff through Facebook and Instagram

❖ Software for infection tracing developed by the municipality

Innovative technological solutions for remote care

❖ Medication dispensers

❖ Weight control

❖ Digital consultancy

Innovative solutions for practices

❖ Procedure and Protection Equipment controllers

❖ The establishment of a response team

❖ Leaders acting as knowledge brokers

❖ Inhouse testing of Covid-19

❖ Checklists where healthcare professionals (HCPs) had to confirm receiving Covid information

❖ External actors assuring the quality of changes

❖ Different entrances, where HCPs got a message the previous day explaining which entrance to use the next morning

❖ Visitor assistant

❖ Recruitment of laid-off workers (from hotels and restaurants)

Innovative solutions for services

❖ Outside area for hosting concerts and shows.

❖ Use of laid-off workers from service industries (aviation, hotels, restaurants) to serve food and communicate with the patients.

Innovative solutions for the physical environment

❖ Changing zones for healthcare professionals to dress up in protective equipment

❖ Areas for teaching (outdoors)

❖ Proving different entrances

❖ Dividing into infection and non-infection wards

❖ Motion detectors for monitoring patients with dementia