Innovation

The Innovation Institute (La Palma, Calif.). The Innovation Institute was launched in 2013 by Irvine, Calif.-based St. Joseph Health (which merged with Renton, Wash.-based Providence Health & Services in July) as a for-profit, independent collaborative of five health systems. The…

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital’s NYP Innovation Center. Since launching in 2014, NewYork-Presbyterian’s Innovation Center has hosted a number of events, hackathons and challenges to harness its community’s innovative and entrepreneurial spirit. NYP held a pediatric app challenge this past spring, and in…

Thomas Jefferson University Hospital’s Jefferson Accelerator Zone (Philadelphia). The Jefferson Accelerator Zone, or JAZ, opened in January 2015 as “command central” for innovation-related activities. It boasts involvement in a variety of events, including the Innovation Engagement Speaker Series, hackathons and…

UNC Health Care’s Innovate Health Care @ Carolina (Chapel Hill). Innovate Health Care @ Carolina is a project between UNC Health Care and the UNC School of Medicine. To work toward its mission of initiating, evaluating, disseminating and supporting disruptive…

OSF HealthCare’s OSF Innovation (Peoria, Ill.). A new program, OSF Innovation at OSF HealthCare launched in June. The program is led by a multidisciplinary team of nine leaders specializing in health system operations, organizational change, performance improvement, finance, analytics, telehealth…

Investment and innovation firm Plug and Play has tapped at least 20 technology startups in the insurance industry to join its innovation platform.

Children’s Health Virtual Health and Innovation. Children’s Health Ventures is a new operating unit formed in 2015 at Children’s Health that aims to invest and partner with companies, technologies and organizations on care delivery. The commercialization arm recently invested in…

University of Missouri’s Tiger Institute for Health Innovation (Columbia). In 2009, former University of Missouri President Gary Forsee and Cerner CEO Neal Patterson joined forces to create the Tiger Institute for Health Innovation. The institute strives to accelerate healthcare innovations,…

Metro Health Innovation Center (Wyoming, Mich.). Metro Health employees can make use of the Innovation Center to meet and work on projects for the health system. There are four departments within the Innovation Center providing support services to the hospital…

Mercy Medical Center’s Mercy Innovation Center (Des Moines, Iowa). Established in 2014, Mercy Innovation Center offers those in the Mercy system resources and expertise to redesign care delivery. Such resources include observation opportunities; creative spaces for ideation; engineering services for…