Innovating from the Front Lines

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Last month, several team members walked into our Innovation Lab in the hospital to find a note on our whiteboard (pictured above). In large writing it read: “Lower the cost of goods sold/consumed by using medical staff at every level to help innovate and engineer product and patent creation. Everybody, everywhere, see [a] need, fill a need.” Here at iHub we couldn’t agree more with David. iHub’s goal is to surface great ideas from every part of the hospital...

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iHub Innovates Trauma Care with Stepping Strong

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Last month, hundreds of thousands of people worldwide tuned in to see more than 30,000 runners compete in the 120th Boston Marathon. I walked down to Beacon Street in Brookline with my two boys, where hundreds more were there to cheer on the runners – it was a beautiful day. Watching the runners is always an incredibly...

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Closing the Innovation Gap in Mental Health Care – Moving the conversation forward at HxRefactored

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Last month at the HXRefactored conference, I got to talk about the need to close the innovation gap and how some of the other gaps in research, funding and treatment can limit innovation. I was very excited to be a part of the conference and moderate a panel about design in mental health care. I have been studying design and how to design for people with mental illness, cognitive disorders and neurological developmental disorders. It...

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Top Ten Reasons Boston is the Ultimate Digital Health Hub

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Boston is full of history. It’s home of the Boston Tea Party, the U.S.S. Constitution, the Freedom Trail, and scores of people who’ve made names for themselves here, too. While we're proud of our past, we're looking forward to a bright future. We're known for our muscle, which has helped us win historical battles and sports championships – go Pats/Celtics/Red Sox/Bruins, etc.! However, Bostonians are even more renowned for our brains. We've seen way more medical breakthroughs and...

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Interview with ICD-Nav, iHub’s 2015 BWH Hackathon Winner

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Interview by iHub friend and blogger, Ryan Allen, Practice Coordinator at Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital. * Recently, I had a chance to talk with a few members of the ICD-Nav team, winners of the Brigham Innovation Hub prize at our annual Hackathon last November. Jayson Marwaha and Elbert Heng, medical students at Brown University in Rhode Island, with the help of two Brigham residents, Omar Badri MD and Arvind Ravi MD, believe that coding patient visits has become far...

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BWH Clinical & Research News: Winners of the Department of Radiology and Innovation Hub Funding Pitch Session Announced

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BWH’s Department of Radiology and the Brigham Innovation Hub (iHub) held part one of a funding pitch session in July to determine which three of five innovative radiology projects would be awarded $10,000 seed funding and continued project management support from the iHub team. The iHub connects designers, entrepreneurs, project managers and other professionals to take a clinician or researchers’ idea or invention to the next level. Last year, the iHub launched a group-specific...

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MedTech Boston – Ask the Experts: Is Innovating Within an Academic Medical Center Really Possible?

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Jeff Greenberg, MD, is the medical director of the Innovation Hub at Brigham & Women’s Hospital. He also practices medicine part-time at a patient-centered medical home. "It is entirely possible to innovate at an academic medical center. In fact, innovation is core to the purpose of many AMCs, which have been at the center of healthcare innovation for centuries. My own institution, Brigham and Women’s Hospital,...

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