Innovation

All too often, strategies put in place to accelerate innovation end up slowing down the entire process — when, for example, a fast-moving decision-making process moves too quickly past the evaluation stage and results in half-baked ideas.

Here are seven pieces of wisdom and advice about the role of innovation in healthcare that executives from hospitals and health systems across the country shared with Becker's Hospital Review in August:

The National Institutes of Health's National Human Genome Research Institute announced the six winners of its inaugural Genomic Innovator Awards, which provide financial backing to early-career genomics researchers.

An artificial intelligence algorithm was able to determine a patient's sex and an estimated age from electrocardiogram data, and thus could potentially be used to measure overall health, a new study suggests.

As the executive in charge of medical informatics and clinical analytics at CommonSpirit Health, James Reichert, MD, PhD, is working to develop an analytics platform across the care continuum for 170 care sites within the Chicago-based health system.

The Ohio Development Services Agency announced Aug. 27 the winners of its Opioid Technology Challenge, each of whom will receive a $1 million prize to further develop their proposed projects to address the opioid epidemic.

Lafayette (La.) General Health announced Aug. 27 the creation of its second dedicated fund for investments in early-stage innovative healthcare companies.

As Atlantic Health System's first chief innovation officer, Sylvia Romm, MD, is focused on building upon the Morristown, N.J.-based system's existing "innovative spirit and culture of inquiry."

Lehigh Valley Health Network and Burr Ridge, Ill.-based IKS Health have partnered to develop IT innovations to improve the experience of both patients and providers, the Allentown, Pa.-based health system announced Aug. 27.

At LifeBridge Health, Chief Innovation Officer Daniel Durand, MD, focuses on deploying innovations of both the digital and analog variety — whichever will do more to improve the Baltimore-based health system's care quality and outcomes.