Innovation

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center’s Technology Ventures Office (Boston). The Technology Ventures Office at BIDMC seeks to translate research and innovation from the health system into products to benefit society. The office evaluates, patents, markets and licenses inventions from BIDMC…

Children’s National Health System’s Bear Institute (Washington, D.C.). Formed in 2013, The Bear Institute for Health Innovation is a collaboration between Children’s National Health System and Kansas City, Mo.-based Cerner. The Bear Institute is housed within the main hospital campus…

Baylor Scott & White Health’s Research Ventures (Dallas). Research Ventures, the commercialization unit of Baylor Scott & White Health, supports health system staff with inventions and discoveries. Staff are encouraged to submit ideas for medical devices, therapeutics, diagnostics, software and…

Johns Hopkins Medicine’s Sibley Innovation Hub (Washington, D.C.). The Innovation Hub at Sibley Memorial Hospital, part of Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine, seeks to envision what healthcare will look like in five years, and then make that a reality today. The…

University of Utah’s Spark Health Innovation Lab (Salt Lake City). When the University of Utah Patient Experience Think Tank challenged undergraduates to find ways of bettering patient experiences in 2011, one pre-med/business student suggested what is now the Spark Health…

Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin’s Inception Health (Milwaukee). Inception Health LLC is the hub of Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin’s health networks’ digital health services. The hub’s focus areas include improving care, improving the health of the…

Mount Sinai Innovation Partners (New York City). Mount Sinai Innovation Partners is the technology transfer office for the Icahn School of Medicine and Mount Sinai Health System. In 2015, the office received 117 technology disclosures, engaged 549 inventors and filed…

Mission Health System’s Mission Center for Innovation (Asheville, N.C.). The Mission Center for Innovation offers innovators business planning and feasibility analyses, opportunities to connect with appropriate partners and, in some cases, funding. The center supports innovation in multiple forms, from…

MD Anderson Cancer Center’s Strategic Industry Ventures (Houston). Through collaborations with faculty and working with the health system’s Office of Technology Commercialization, MD Anderson’s Strategic Industry Ventures seeks to bring new drugs, diagnostics, devices and information solutions to market to…

Hartford (Conn.) Hospital’s Center for Education, Simulation and Innovation. What started as a medical simulation center in 1999 has transformed into the Center for Education, Simulation and Innovation. While the focus of the 20,000-square-foot training facility is largely medical training,…