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Innovation Hub Collaboration Night

BWH iHub — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 09:55:45 +0000

“Healthcare Fundraising 101″
In Collaboration with The Capital Network & Boston Children’s Hospital

Wednesday, August 6th, 5-6:30 PM
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Shapiro Breakout Room, 70 Francis Street

Program:

Are you thinking about what you need to fund your company? Where do you start? Funding is not “one size fits all”. Every company has to approach their pathway to funding with a unique approach. Join our fundraising experts for an in-depth discussion of what options you have for funding and how to decide which paths are right for you and your company. We’ll have a specific focus on life science focused companies and technologies and the funding choices available for them.

Speakers:

Paulina Hill – Polaris Partners
Jeremy Halpern – Nutter McClennen & Fish
Roger Kitterman- Partners Innovation Fund

Presentations will be followed by networking. Refreshments will be provided.

Pilot Shark Tank – Photo Gallery

BWH iHub — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 16:31:19 +0000

Pilot Shark Tank – Sharks

BWH iHub — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 15:39:58 +0000

	Karen Conley Dr. Karen Conley has served as the associate chief nurse for the Connors Center for Women and Newborns since July 2012. Karen holds a B.S.N from Boston College, a M.S. in Nursing Administration from Northeastern University and a DNP from MGH Institute for Health Professions. Dr. Conley has been a leader in patient and family centered care, systems improvement and patient safety. She also has focused her work and research on the development of nurse leaders and has expanded that interest internationally to projects in both Haiti and China. She is has advanced certification in both Oncology Nursing (AOCN) and Nurse Executive practice (NEABC).
	Jessica Dudley As Chief Medical Officer for the Brigham and Women’s Physician’s Organization, Dr. Dudley is responsible for overseeing the contracting efforts on behalf of the BWPO and leading the medical management team in developing and implementing programs designed to meet pay for performance targets related to efficiency and quality. Additional responsibilities include addressing physician work-life issues and collaboration and development of physician leadership and volunteerism programs. Previously, as Associate Medical Director for Partners Community HealthCare, Inc. (PCHI), and Team Leader for the High Performance Medicine Trend Management Team, Dr. Dudley was responsible for developing and coordinating system wide approaches to address areas of increasing resource utilization. The targets included physician utilization of pharmaceuticals and high cost imaging tests. Approaches included use of electronic ordering platforms by physicians at the time of ordering, development and deployment of guidelines to support physician decision making, and feedback of practice patterns to physicians. Previously, Dr. Dudley was Medical Director for Partners Human Resources. Dr. Dudley supported the Human Resources team in the development and management of the pharmacy benefit for Partners employees and their dependents including contracting and on-going formulary management. Dr. Dudley was also responsible for working with insurers and other vendors to develop and deploy disease management programs for employees. Prior to this position, Dr. Dudley had worked as Associate Medical Director and prior to that, Assistant Medical Director, for PCHI. In these roles, Dr. Dudley was responsible for providing clinical support for negotiating risk and pay for performance arrangements with local insurers on behalf of the PCHI Network. Dr. Dudley was also responsible for the development and ongoing management of PCHI’s Pharmacy Management Program. Dr. Dudley received her medical degree from Harvard Medical School. She completed her internship and residency in Primary Care Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA and is Board Certified in Internal Medicine.
	Allen Kachalia Allen Kachalia is a member of the faculty at the Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School. He is clinically active as an academic hospitalist at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, regularly teaching and attending on the hospital wards with medical students and residents. He is also a member of the BWH leadership team as the Associate Chief Quality Officer for the hospital, with his administrative activities focusing on the quality and safety of patient care in both the inpatient and outpatient settings. Allen also has a law degree, and teaches and maintains research interest in legal issues in medicine, including malpractice system reform and disclosure, and how they relate to the quality and safety of medical care.
	Calum MacRae Dr. Calum MacRae is a cardiologist, geneticist and developmental biologist who graduated from Edinburgh and London before coming to Boston in 1991. After postdoctoral fellowships in human genetics with Drs. Christine and Jon Seidman and developmental biology with Dr. Mark Fishman, as well as additional clinical training in internal medicine and cardiology, he joined the Division of Cardiology at Massachusetts General Hospital in 2001. His research is focused on understanding the genetic contribution to common cardiovascular disease using human studies and complementary high-throughput biology in the zebrafish. His clinical interests include the management of inherited heart disease and cardiac involvement in systemic diseases. Dr. MacRae also is the Director of the Cardiology Fellowship Program and is responsible for Physician Scientist training initiatives at the CVRC.
	Sanjay Pathak Sanjay Pathak, MBA, MPH, oversees Surgical Services and Imaging programs at BWH. His responsibilities include directing all Surgical Service lines, Peri-operative services, Anesthesiology, Radiology and Dermatology, as well as collaborating with BWH department chairs to develop and advance the strategic priorities of the organization. Pathak also serves as co-chair of the Dana Farber/ Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center Operations Cabinet. Prior to joining BWH in 2007, Pathak served as corporate director of Business Planning and Market Development at Partners HealthCare, where he and his team analyzed and directed major strategic and capital projects for PHS. Pathak also spent more than 12 years in management consulting for Cap Gemini and Deloitte, where he directed performance improvement, clinical information systems and strategic projects for large academic and integrated delivery systems across the country. Pathak earned his MBA and MPH from Boston University.
	Stuart Pollack Dr. Stuart Pollack is the Medical Director, Brigham and Women’s Advanced Primary Care Associates, South Huntington. He is a practicing general internist currently medical directing an academic patient-centered medical home. The practice is designed around building a culture of integrated multi-disciplinary teamwork, patient activation, continuous learning, and proactive population management. Previously, he was Chairman of General Internal Medicine at Fallon Clinic. He served as a resident at Barnes Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine.

BWH iHub Pilot Shark Tank

BWH iHub — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 12:00:55 +0000

Join us on Monday, April 28th from 4-6PM to see which companies will be piloted at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Bornstein Amphitheater. The company presentations will be followed by a networking reception from 6-7PM in the Cabot Atrium. Both events are open to the public.

Calling all health-tech start-ups, healthcare hackers, and dreamers! We are excited to announce the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) iHub Pilot Shark Tank Challenge! This is a brand new initiative to connect health tech entrepreneurs and hackers with clinical partners at BWH, which is an international leader in virtually every area of medicine and has been the site of pioneering breakthroughs that have improved lives around the world. The goal of this event is to match early stage health technology companies, projects, or hackers with clinical partners at BWH surrounding the challenges listed below. These challenges are REAL problems currently facing clinical practices at BWH. The stakeholders at these practices are committed to piloting solutions and want to hear from you and your team! We hope that this initiative helps bring traction and a welcome test ground to healthcare tech entrepreneurs in the community and also improve healthcare delivery in the process. At the event, you will hear pitches from 10 local start-ups on how they can help Brigham and Women’s Hospital address challenges that we have in two areas:

Patient and family experience in the inpatient setting
Patient engagement in the outpatient setting

The goal of this event is to match early stage health technology companies or projects with clinical partners at BWH. We hope that this initiative helps bring traction and a welcome testing ground to healthcare tech entrepreneurs in the community and also improve healthcare delivery in the process.

Pilot Shark Tank Finalists
Care Thread	Care Thread is a secure, mobile communication and care coordination solution that connects every member of the care team in real time, including the patient and their loved ones, so everyone knows who is caring for the patient, enabling seamless communication via a mobile device. Leveraging our integration with Partners’ clinical systems, PEPL, etc., (already completed for our research grants), Care Thread allows each patient to invite their family and friends into their Care Thread Circle so family and friends always know who is taking care of the patient at BWH, enabling updates and communication between the care team and family/friends while their loved one is in the hospital.On further review, BWH iHub removed CareThread from the SharkTank finalists due to existing and ongoing research and piloting of CareThread at BWH.
CareMon	CareMon is a care monitoring system prototype based on the latest three-dimensional optical sensor technology that non-intrusively and non-invasively monitors patient’s movement, or lack thereof, while in bed and notifies caregivers of important time-critical information to help with the decision to take or not take action; helping with the “burden of care giving”. For 65.7 million home based patients and millions of patients in institutional facilities, this innovative device could improve safety and quality of care, plus gather important information for clinicians about the behavioral movement patterns of patients during their time in bed.
Constant Therapy	Constant Therapy provides tools for personalized and 24×7 brain rehabilitation via iPads to patients who have suffered a stroke or brain-injury & software tools to clinicians for evidence based care. It is currently used by clinicians in institutions such as Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and is already making a big difference in the lives of thousands of patients worldwide.
Healo	Healo is a mobile solution enabling clinicians to remotely monitor their patients post-operative wound healing, decreasing the need for clinical follow-ups. Healo- Follow-ups made mobile.
Home Team Therapy	Home Team Therapy uses doctor designed workouts to help physical therapy patients and athletes exercise at home. Our apps deliver customized exercise programs, progress tracking, and secure messaging tools right to your finger tips.
MySafeCare	Patient care is long overdue for a disruptive technological innovation that improves patient safety by giving power to the patient’s voice and hospital experience. MySafeCare is an innovative, mobile patient-centered application that will allow patients and families to rapidly and electronically report safety concerns while in the hospital, to communicate those concerns to clinicians and hospital staff, and to facilitate a response according to each patient’s preferences.
Revvo	Revvo is the world’s first bio-adaptive bike that intelligently guides users to workout at just the right intensity to trigger a rapid improvement in fitness & metabolic health.
Tenacity Health	Tenacity Health is a peer coaching platform that uses unconventional incentives developed at MIT that are 7x as effective as direct incentives. These incentives are used to change patient behavior outside the clinic, improving satisfaction and keeping patients healthy and out of the hospital.
Twine Health, Inc.	At Twine Health, our mission is to dramatically improve chronic disease management by putting patients in the lead of truly collaborative care that breaks free from the constraints of office visits and blends into the fabric of their everyday lives. The Twine Collaborative Care Platform allows patients and clinicians to work together toward shared goals as an efficient team using synchronized apps that work seamlessly across devices.
VerbalCare	VerbalCare is an easy-to-use platform for better communication and workflow between patients and their care teams. Through a mobile, cloud-based platform, VerbalCare provides unparalleled insight to clinical teams by empowering patients to have their needs heard in real-time with just one tap.
Vital Score	Vital Score is a new vital sign for primary care, modeled on the APGAR score, that quadruples the rate of doctor-patient communication about the unhealthy behaviors that cause chronic illness. Vital Score allows doctors to meet new performance standards with one minute of their time and gives patients advice in the most meaningful context, the doctor’s visit.

Pilot Shark Tank – Sharks
Karen Conley
Jessica Dudley
Allen Kachalia
Calum MacRae
Sanjay Pathak
Stuart Pollack

Rules for Participation-Pilot Shark Tank

BWH iHub — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 14:25:16 +0000

The BWH iHub Pilot Shark Tank is an initiative to match early stage health technology companies, projects, or hackers with clinical partners at BWH; surrounding challenges impacting clinicians and patients at BWH today. These challenges are real problems currently facing clinical practices. Our goal is to help bring traction and a welcome test ground to healthcare tech entrepreneurs in the community and also improve healthcare delivery in the process. This is well-aligned with the iHub’s vision to harness the power of our community’s inventors, innovators, and entrepreneurs to bring ideas from creation to commercialization. This is open to external start-ups as well as internal BWH employees working on start-ups.

Specifically, interested teams will apply to demo their proposed solution based on the challenges listed below. After an internal vetting process involving the clinicians who “proposed” the initial problem and are committed to piloting solutions based on the challenges below, teams will present a 5-minute demo of their solution to a panel of judges in a “shark tank” style setting on April 28th in Bornstein Auditorium (If you don’t know what Shark Tank is, check out the following link).The solution must be “go-live” ready within 6 months of the shark tank pitch. The judging panel will be a mix of physicians committed to piloting the solution, BWH leadership and administration, and BWH iHub team members. The panel of judges will decide whether to move forward with pilots surrounding the proposed solutions, the day of the event – shark tank style!

What BWH Provides

Ability to pilot for 2-6 weeks at BWH during 2014 calendar year
Access to BWH pilot design advisor pre-pilot
Ability to formally present to BWH iHub team
BWH will agree to talk with potential investors, within reason.
DETAILS: After an internal vetting process, BWH will select the finalists for the shark tank. Each team will come ready to present their proposed solution that matches one of the challenges highlighted below for 5 minutes. Please come prepared to present your idea, demo a prototype, describe your ideal “pilot”, and highlight the value proposition of your solution to BWH. The prototype must be “go-live” ready within 6 months of the shark tank pitch.
TIMING: If the “shark tank” panel selects your demo solution, BWH will pilot the proposed solution during the 2014 calendar year. If, for a reason on BWH’s side, the pilot cannot launch in 2014, BWH will make every best effort to implement the pilot in a timely manner in 2015.
LEGAL: During the pilot period, BWH will have no ownership of the piloted solution, nor will they have financial obligation. Once piloted, BWH and the team may or may not engage in further contracting agreements.
PILOT: Piloting can take multiple forms and lengths. It could mean a solution deployment across all members of the clinical practice or utilization by one physician within the clinic. This pilot opportunity will be at the discretion of the pilot owners at each of one of the clinical practices.
IT: Over the next year, BWH is undergoing massive conversion to a new enterprise-wide electronic health record and financial management system (Partners eCare) as well as a new enterprise laboratory system (Partners ePath). While we encourage and support continued clinical and technical innovation, we have further ground rules for BWH Shark Tank proposals that may involve information technology (IT) to ensure the success of the strategic, enterprise-wide projects.

Rules of engagement for external participants

Proposed vendor or custom developed information systems must be vetted by Partners HealthCare Information Security
Vendors must sign Business Associates Agreement (BAA) with Partners HealthCare and adhere to HIPAA best practices, if patient health information is involved
No BWH Information Systems development resources are available (for changes/enhancements to existing information systems, interfaces, or proposed new systems)
Access to Partners’ server infrastructure or services (application programming interfaces) may be limited.

Innovators Forum

BWH iHub — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 17:48:16 +0000

The Partners HealthCare community is invited to attend the newly launched Partners Innovators Forum, a monthly 5-part education series focused on key issues in academic innovation. Register to attend the Innovators Forum.

The Forum is free for the PHS community and is also open to the public. Future sessions will rotate between MGH and BWH. Upcoming forums include:

Innovators Forum: My Commercial Journey – Four Partner’s innovators share their story

These Partners HealthCare leaders will share personal insights on how they first recognized their interest in invention, how they initially acted on it, their career as an innovator and the high impact commercial products that they developed.

Speakers: Rox Anderson, MD; Paul Ridker, MD; Mehmet Toner, PhD; Christine Seidman, MD

Thursday, January 23, 2014
5-7pm with a Reception to follow
MGH Simches Research Center Auditorium

Innovators Forum: Corporate Collaboration: Getting It Right From the Start

Many large companies have established new approaches to finding, developing and acting on technology developed in AMCs and other external venues. The hunt for new innovation and continuing budget pressures have compelled big pharma and big device to seek increased ties to academia and its innovative output. At the same time, payer constraints and the sequester are driving AMCs to hunt for new and broader sources of non-federal research support. While the environment seems ripe for an unrivaled period of collaboration, the structure, mode and expectations for these joint efforts can vary widely. Three large company leaders will describe their perspectives on the future of joint academic-industry initiatives, the key requirements for success and what their company looks for in a partner organization.

Speakers: Joel Schwartz, Senior VP and GM, Global New Business Development, EMC; Frank Yocca, PhD, VP Strategy and Externalization, Neuroscience Virtual Innovative Medicine Unit at AstraZeneca

Tuesday, February 4, 2014
5-7pm with a Reception to follow
BWH Bornstein Family Amphitheatre

Innovators Forum: Accelerating Innovation in the Electronic Era of HealthCare

The commercial potential for the vast amount of valuable health care data being generated is unprecedented. At the same time the path to market is complex, requires new collaborations and presents different rewards to the key actors. A panel of HIT leaders will address how innovation advances in this new environment and how it gets to market.

Speakers: Russ Richmond, MD, CEO APS; Dan Burton, CEO Health Catalyst; Michael Weintrab, President & CEO Humedica

Thursday, March 6, 2014
5-7pm with a Reception to follow
MGH Simches Research Center Auditorium

Hackathon Winners at BWH Research Day

BWH iHub — Fri, 11 Oct 2013 18:35:37 +0000

Please join us on Thursday, November 21, 2013 for BWH Research Day. Research Day offers a great opportunity to engage and learn with the research community, industry professionals, and other guests, as well as the the chance to celebrate innovative and cutting-edge research.

BWH iHub is pleased to announce that winning teams from the inaugural BWH Hackathon will be presenting at Research Day from 3-4PM. More details to follow.

Save the Date: June 11, 2014, 2nd Annual Clinical Innovation Day

BWH iHub — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 19:57:24 +0000

Hear about people and technology transforming care at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. This day will bring together physicians, scientists, nurses, residents, trainees, administrative staff and other members of our community with the goal of celebrating BWH innovations in process improvement, care redesign, health IT and more. Talks and workshops will be followed by a keynote address focused on innovation in healthcare. The day will conclude with a poster session that will highlight the spectrum of clinical innovations at BWH and a networking reception for attendees to reflect on the opportunities presented and to initiate collaborations to fuel further innovations.

Visit the Clinical Innovation Day website and keep checking back for the latest updates on speakers, sessions, and workshops.

iHUB - Brigham and Women's Hospital Innovation Hub (iHub) » Events

Innovation Hub Collaboration Night

“Healthcare Fundraising 101″ In Collaboration with The Capital Network & Boston Children’s Hospital

Wednesday, August 6th, 5-6:30 PM Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Shapiro Breakout Room, 70 Francis Street

Pilot Shark Tank – Photo Gallery

Pilot Shark Tank – Sharks

BWH iHub Pilot Shark Tank

Pilot Shark Tank Finalists

Care Thread

CareMon

Constant Therapy

Healo

Home Team Therapy

MySafeCare

Revvo

Tenacity Health

Twine Health, Inc.

VerbalCare

Vital Score

Pilot Shark Tank – Sharks

Rules for Participation-Pilot Shark Tank

What BWH Provides

What BWH Provides

Rules of engagement for external participants

Innovators Forum

Innovators Forum: My Commercial Journey – Four Partner’s innovators share their story

Innovators Forum: Corporate Collaboration: Getting It Right From the Start

Innovators Forum: Accelerating Innovation in the Electronic Era of HealthCare

Hackathon Winners at BWH Research Day

Save the Date: June 11, 2014, 2nd Annual Clinical Innovation Day

“Healthcare Fundraising 101″
In Collaboration with The Capital Network & Boston Children’s Hospital

Wednesday, August 6th, 5-6:30 PM
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Shapiro Breakout Room, 70 Francis Street