Category: In The News
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Brigham Mobile Research Platform Offers Tools for the Digital Age
“As iHub was working with clinicians and the research community, we started to hear requests from folks saying they wanted to use a mobile app to do some research with their patients,” said Josie Elias, program manager, Digital Health Innovation at iHub. “They wanted a platform that would give them both security and flexibility. We wanted to help them innovate. Together, we created a platform that would offer them the basic tools and standard functions needed to create and launch an app tailored to their study’s needs.”
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Cleaner Restrooms with the Push of a Button
Amazon’s Dash Buttons have made it easier than ever for its customers to instantly order items that need frequent replenishment, all with the push of a button. A pilot project at the Brigham has adapted the same technology to deliver that convenience and innovation in a health care environment, starting in an unexpected place: the hospital’s public restrooms.
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BWH Makes Innovation Interactive During HUBweek
“HUBweek showcases the best of Boston’s innovation culture, and our first year participating was a success by all measures,” said Adam Landman, MD, chief information officer at Brigham Health. “Attendees left not only knowing more about Brigham research and initiatives, but the content of several sessions also helped them feel knowledgeable and empowered in the face of crisis.”
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Game Changers in 3-D Medical Imaging Manipulation
Kovtun and Williams used their programming knowledge to develop innovative software to more easily manipulate 3-D imaging data, working on the project in their spare time outside of work. But when they faced funding obstacles in realizing their entrepreneurial vision, they turned to resources at BWH to take their project to the next level.
Initial seed funding from the BRI enabled them to shift their software from a weekend side project to a full-fledged academic research venture. Strategic commercialization guidance from iHub further accelerated the project’s movement, providing the duo with entrepreneurial advice and connecting them to business development resources. With iHub’s support, Kovtun and Williams could develop their idea and enter it into the Shark Tank competition.
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Happy Birthday, BTM! A Year in Expert Care, Discovery and Innovation
The Building for Transformative Medicine (BTM) opened its doors to patients last October as a hub for state-of-the-art labs, outpatient clinical space and advanced imaging facilities. Located at 60 Fenwood Road, the building brings together researchers and clinicians from across multiple disciplines with a shared vision for collaboration, acceleration and translation of laboratory discoveries into novel treatments for patients.
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58 Hospitals with Innovation Programs (2017)
The hospitals and health systems on this list have committed to keeping up with — or getting ahead of — the pace of change in healthcare. These hospitals formed dedicated centers and institutes for innovation, research and development. The products coming out of these programs range from technological, including medical devices, diagnostics and mobile health platforms, to clinical workflows, simulation and process improvements.
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BWH Looks to Solve Critical Challenges with Startup Partnerships
On Thursday, September 28, Brigham and Women’s Innovation Hub (iHub) speaker series met at the hospital’s building of Transformative Medicine to discuss their digital health innovation, both internally and with local-area startups. Speaker Adam Landman, Chief Information Officer of the BWH, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and attending emergency physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, had an open discussion with Laurance Stuntz, the Director of the Massachusetts eHealth Institute at MassTech, or MeHI. They discussed the current climate for health care startups collaborating with major academic medical centers like BWH.
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Redox adds first health system customer with Brigham Health deal in push to expand interoperability
“We’re eager to be better partners to our colleagues at digital health startups and large vendors alike,” Landman said. “This platform will allow us to efficiently and securely share information and data that are essential to supporting the development of novel technologies that have the potential to ultimately improve the care of our patients.”
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New Online Tool Helps BWHers Find and Fix Things
Mark Zhang, DO, MMSc, medical director of Digital Health Implementation, has worked closely with Adam Landman, MD, MS, MIS, MHS, chief information officer at Brigham Health, and staff from the Brigham Digital Innovation Hub (iHub) and Partners IS to develop FixIt. With support from hospital leadership, the project was driven by the need to create a mobile-friendly site that could function as a hub for finding the appropriate facilities and operations contact information at BWH.
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EHR Notification Platform Lands Contract with Brigham and Women’s
Herald Health seeks to help doctors manage electronic medical records more effectively. It sends them push notifications with critical patient data on their pagers and phones. The startup launched in 2015 from an award-winning pitch at Brigham’s Digital Health Hackathon. It integrates with electronic health record systems such as Epic and Cerner, used at Brigham and Women’s and Boston Children’s hospitals, respectively.