Innovation

Centura Health Centers for Clinical Innovation (Englewood, Colo.). Called C3I, the Centura Centers for Clinical Innovation seeks to leverage the latest technologies to introduce new ways of thinking about treatment and healthcare. For example, the center supports robotic surgery programs…

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Center for Surgical Innovation (Lebanon, N.H.). Surgeons at Dartmouth-Hitchcock can take advantage of the hospital’s Center for Surgical Innovation, which provides them with resources for translational research and support to develop “bench-to-bedside” investigations to improve the safety and efficacy…

Nationwide Children’s Hospital’s Center for Innovation in Pediatric Practice (Columbus, Ohio). Researchers in the Center for Innovation in Pediatric Practice seek to develop methods to better deliver health services to children and their families. The center partnered with the hospital’s…

Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center’s Wake Forest Innovations (Winston-Salem, N.C.). Wake Forest Innovations has three centers: the Center for Technology Innovation & Commercialization accelerates the development of inventions; the Center for Industry Research Collaboration speeds up access to specialized clinical…

UPMC Enterprises (Pittsburgh). UPMC Enterprises, building on two decades of commercialization efforts at UPMC, believes integrating technology with the healthcare industry is the ideal way to lower costs and boost quality. Its focus areas lie in four categories: clinical tools,…

Mills-Peninsula Health Services Center for Innovation & Research (Burlingame, Calif.). Part of Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health, the Mills-Peninsula Center for Innovation and Research seeks to be a “living laboratory” for new care models, technologies, therapeutic products, services and treatments. It…

Akron (Ohio) Children’s Hospital’s Center for Patient Experience Innovation. The Center for Patient Experience Innovation at Akron Children’s Hospital focuses on how positive healthcare experiences can transform clinical outcomes. The center is a hub for innovation support services and resources…

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Startups left and right say their goal is to be the Uber of their industry, providing the radicalized, consumer-centric, on-demand service that Uber did for transportation. But this term has become a catch-all for any sort of innovation, and it…

Using open data provided by a government initiative, app developers in Perth, Western Australia, have constructed a free app that updates wait times for area hospitals in real time, ZDNet reports.