Innovation

Massachusetts General Hospital’s Stoeckle Center for Primary Care Innovation (Boston). The John D. Stoeckle Center for Primary Care Innovation was established in 2001 and named for Dr. Stoeckle, who spent 50 years as a primary care physician at Mass General.…

Kaiser Permanente’s Sidney R. Garfield Health Care Innovation Center (San Leandro, Calif.). Named after Kaiser Permanente’s founding physician, the Garfield Center opened in June 2006 and has served as grounds for developing ideas and testing innovations. Successful initiatives coming from…

Intermountain Healthcare’s Healthcare Transformation Lab (Murray, Utah). The Healthcare Transformation Lab opened 10 miles south of Salt Lake City in August 2013 with the goal of researching, developing and measuring ideas to optimize patient care. Intermountain physicians experienced this in…

Hospital for Special Surgery’s HSS Innovation Center (New York City). The HSS Innovation Center is comprised of a technology development office that has been around since 1979 to commercialize viable technologies and an accelerator to develop and pilot ideas. The…

Henry Ford Health System’s Innovation Institute (Detroit). Since 2012, the Henry Ford Innovation Institute has supported the Henry Ford community’s innovators by offering invention vetting, subject matter experts to assess market potential, prototype partners and facilities, and more. In 2014,…

Florida Hospital Innovation Lab (Orlando). The Innovation Lab is located within Florida Hospital Orlando and serves as a space for innovators to collaborate. Anyone from the hospital can bring a challenge, idea or opportunity to FHIL to develop a project…

El Camino Hospital’s Fogarty Institute for Innovation (Mountain View, Calif.). Thomas Fogarty, MD, is widely known for inventing the embolectomy catheter, or balloon catheter, which was patented in 1969, but he also carried that same spirit of innovation to El…

Cleveland Clinic Innovations. In the 16 years since its founding, Cleveland Clinic’s commercialization arm has supported more than 3,400 inventions; issued more than 800 patents and 450 licenses; and produced more than 40 active spin-off companies. Cleveland Clinic Innovations uses…

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles’ Center for Innovation. Medical technology companies, pharmaceutical companies, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, philanthropists and social impact investors join forces at CHLA’s Center for Innovation to develop, test and commercialize new products and services. Some of the technologies…

Brigham and Women’s Brigham Innovation Hub (Boston). The Brigham Innovation Hub, called the iHub, launched in September 2013 as a resource center for internal and external innovators. iHub has hosted several hackathons, collaboration nights where digital health experts share tips…