Category: In The News
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Brigham Clinician Awarded $50,000 as Part of Healthy Aging Challenge at Massachusetts Digital Health Competition Finale
Challenge 1: Innovations to Support Healthy Aging is an initiative from Mass Digital Health designed to find digital health solutions that can help older adults live as well and independently […]
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Slumber One Wins $100,000 State Grant Competition to Help Insomnia
A Boston-based digital health company helping people with insomnia has won a state grant competition sponsored by the Massachusetts eHealth Institute at MassTech. As a result, Slumber One, a Harvard […]
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Five lessons on innovation from Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women’s Hospitals
Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, the approach to fostering internal and external innovation is deliberate, thought out, and informed by years of experience. At HXD 2018 in Cambridge yesterday, Julia Jackson, managing director of Massachusetts General’s Healthcare Transformation Lab and Josie Elias, program manager for Brigham’s Digital Health Innovation Guide,…
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At PULSE@MassChallenge Finale, Medumo announces strategic collaboration with Partners HealthCare to scale digital care navigation pathways
Medumo, a leading patient navigation platform, announced a new strategic collaboration with Partners HealthCare at the second annual PULSE@MassChallenge Finale. This relationship will scale Medumo digital care navigation pathways (CareTours™) in care access, patient encounter preparation and follow-up, and many other clinical or administrative areas across Partners institutions. Medumo CareTours™ use multilingual SMS, email, and…
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A Nurse’s Innovation: “Virtual Monitoring” Increases Access, Decreases Travel
A nurse practitioner in the department of radiation oncology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boyajian manages the monitoring visits required for men who have been treated for prostate cancer. The good news for these patients is the high success rates for men who receive treatment. But they must follow-up regularly with blood tests to check…
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Reversing the Tide of the Opioid Crisis
BWH clinicians and researchers across departments and divisions are working to find new ways to stem the tide of opioid addiction and opioid-related deaths. Brian Mullen, PhD, of the Brigham Digital Innovation Hub (iHub), and Scott Weiner, MD, MPH, of the Department of Emergency Medicine and director of the Brigham Comprehensive Opioid Response and Education…
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Look Who’s Talking: Which Female Innovator Inspires You?
“Angela Ahrendts, senior vice president of Retail at Apple, inspires me because of her innovative spirit, ability to execute on bold, forward visions, while also exemplifying the core values of humility and compassion. Quickly rising to the top of the fashion industry, she helped transform Burberry into an iconic, global brand. Now, Angela leads the…
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Endoscopy Center Sees Success with Text Message Reminder System
With funding from the Brigham Care Redesign Incubator Startup Program (BCRISP) and additional support from the Brigham Digital Innovation Hub (iHub), a multidisciplinary team has been using a texting tool, developed by a company called Medumo, to provide patients with a digital colonoscopy prep guide in advance of their procedure.
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Digital Tool Helps Patients, Staff Find Their Way
For about two years now, an interdisciplinary team at BWH has been working diligently to build and test the online navigation tool. Josie Elias, MBA, MPH, program manager for Digital Health Initiatives at the Brigham Digital Innovation Hub (iHub), who has led the project since its inception, said she’s proud of what the teams have…
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Leaders of Innovation: Chen Cao of Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Last week, we kicked off our “Leaders in Innovation” blog series with a spotlight on Roy Rosin of PennMedicine. The goal of this series is to hear from the actual people driving the adoption of innovative technologies in healthcare—and learn about the initiatives they’re most excited about in 2018. This week, Innovation Analyst Chen Cao…