Innovation

Innovation in healthcare isn’t always about finding a new piece of artificial intelligence or adding shiny equipment to the operating room. Sometimes, it’s as simple as changing a process to improve the patient experience: Like allowing them to schedule appointments…

Ann Arbor-based Michigan Medicine received a $10 million gift from Tadataka Yamada, MD, and Leslie D. Yamada to fund a new University of Michigan Center for Global Health Equity.

The Hartford, Conn.-based Digital Health CT accelerator program announced on Oct. 16 its inaugural cohort of 10 startups developing a range of healthcare technology solutions spanning artificial intelligence, precision medicine and more.

Not only can organic, internal innovation drive greater growth than external value grabs such as acquisitions, but it will also establish for an organization and its leaders a reputation as forward-thinking and entrepreneurially minded.

Falls Church, Va.-based Inova Health was granted approval to develop its innovation district in Fairfax, Va.

Innovation is not merely a synonym for brainstorming, but should instead describe the process of developing actual life-changing solutions, according to James Madara, MD, CEO and executive vice president of the American Medical Association.

Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center will serve as one of four co-leaders of the FDA's new Sentinel Innovation Center, part of the FDA's national electronic safety surveillance program.

Douglas Wood, MD, has served as the medical director of the innovation and design team within Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic's Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery since 2013.

Milwaukee-based Froedtert Hospital and the Medical College of Wisconsin announced on Oct. 16 the public launch of the Hope to Health campaign, which aims to raise $225 million to support healthcare innovation efforts, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.

Madera, Calif.-based Valley Children's Healthcare announced Oct. 16 a new partnership between its innovation program and The Innovation Institute.