Innovation Acceleration Program
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What's New
Mar 4 2013: Boston Children’s innovation officer: We need more hospital apps (Mobile Health News)
Feb 28 2013: 2013 Reader Survey: Health IT Leaders Speak Up on Priorities, Staffing & Strategies (Clinical Innovation)
Feb 27 2013: Telemedicine brings expert blindness screenings to preemies (Vector Blog)
Jan 29 2013: Healthcare IT News announces results of 2013 H.I.T. Men and Women Awards (Healthcare IT News)
Jan 14 2013: HL20: Hiep T. Nguyen, MD—The Robotic Surgery Jedi (Healthcare Leaders Media)
Jan 01 2013: Slideshow: View the recipients of the 2013 H.I.T.Men and Women Awards (Healthcare IT News)
Nov 28 2012: Creating "Systemness" within Healthcare Delivery (ECRI Institute); Slide Deck, Video
Innovation Best Practices
July 18, 2012: Chief innovation officer explains mylar hats, the O-Gap and the 4 Rs of innovation culture
July 17 2012: MedCity CONVERGE Summit for Healthcare Innovation keynote presentation
July 11, 2012: Chief innovation officer for Children’s Hospital of Boston puts innovation in perspective (MedCity)
May 30, 2012: iHT2 Weekly Health IT Digest featuring Naomi Fried
April 26, 2012: Where are you in the innovation lifecycle? (Vector Blog)
April 25, 2012: Harnessing the power of emotional engagement (Vector Blog)
April 24, 2012: Opening iHT2 Keynote - Innovating Innovation (VIDEO)
April 24, 2012: Interview with IHT2 Keynote speaker, Naomi Fried (Institute for Health Technology Transformation)
April 18, 2012: Is fostering a culture of innovation different in the health care sector compared to other industries? (VIDEO)
April 2012: Innovation! Your new core competency (Hospitals & Health Networks Magazine)
March 15, 2012: eHealth Innovation: Puny IT budgets stifle innovation (Health Technology Management)
December 20, 2011: Innovation opportunities from healthcare reform (Vector Blog)
November 3, 2011: Innovation as a Directed Process — More Turf for the SCM Professional (Healthcare Matters)
November 1, 2011: 8 steps to succeed at a risky medical “first.” Innovators' Forum speaker Dr. Jim Lock discusses innovation (Vector Blog)
October 19, 2011: Innovation: Is it just lightning in a bottle? (Vector Blog)
Aug 9, 2011: IPioneers: The Innovation Lifecycle: How Innovation Happens In Healthcare - Naomi Fried, PhD
December 12, 2010: At Children's Hospital Boston, reducing costs and increasing quality and efficiency.
Innovation Acceleration Program & Projects
About the Innovation Acceleration Program
February 2012: Innovation Bootcamp: Helping new ideas get off the ground (Children's News)
November 9, 2011: Innovation Acceleration Program's first year: Looking back and looking forward
Innovestment Grant Award Projects
March 2, 2012: At Boston Children's Hospital, a Game That Considers Emotions (The Atlantic)
February 1, 2012: Second sight for anesthesiologists (Vector Blog)
July 13, 2011: It’s just a hat: Simplicity in innovation (Vector Blog)
FastTrack Innovation in Technology (FIT) Projects
Jan 11, 2013: Enhancing patient / care team interaction with an iPad “passport” (Vector Blog)
Sep 2012: Boston Children's Innovators featured in Healthcare IT News Magazine - Sept 2012 Issue
Sep 12, 2012: Health IT promises new paradigm of patient care
July 27, 2012: FDA regulation may hinder mHealth innovation (Fierce Mobile Healthcare)
May 18, 2012: BEAPPER - An app for emergency clinicians [Video]
March 26, 2012: BEAPPER: a Twitter-like app for emergency clinicians (Vector Blog)
December 2011: Clinical Innovation: ALICE electronic whiteboard (Pediatric Views)
May 11, 2011: Innovation on inpatient floors: 21st century white boards - ALICE White Board (Vector Blog)
April 2, 2012: Empowering patients: Intelligent devices and apps for better health (Vector Blog)
March 17, 2012: Video on post-operative care mobile app designed by Boston Children's innovators
March 1, 2012: A physician-turned-mobile app developer: My first hackathon (Vector Blog)
February 15, 2012: MIT Media Lab: New Media Medicine Collaboration (We Blog the World)
February 13, 2012: Social Media Week Keynote: Frank Moss on The 2012 MIT Health and Wellness Innovation Hackathon
January 30, 2012: Putting care in patient's hands (Boston Globe)
January 27, 2012: Hacking our way to a new mobile app (Vector Blog)
December 7, 2011: 3 smartphone health apps you might not have expected (Vector Blog)
Telehealth
July 26, 2012: mHealth Zone interview with Naomi Fried at the World Congress Leadership Summit on Telemedicine and mHealth[audio recording]
July 26 2012: mHealth World Congress: Become a mHealth innovator to better patient care
July 26, 2012: World congress leadership summit on mhealth & telemedicine
July 23, 2012: Children’s Hospital Boston testing three innovative telemedicine pilots (CG3)
July 20, 2012: Boston Children's Hospital testing three telemedicine programs (Fierce Health IT)
July 19, 2012: US: Massachusetts: Children’s Hospital Boston testing three innovative telemedicine pilots (Potsdam eGovernment Competence Center)
July 18, 2012: Children’s Hospital Boston testing three innovative telemedicine pilots (MedCity News)
July 5, 2012: Strategies for pediatric telehealth: Lessons from TeleConnect (Vector Blog)
December 12, 2011: After surgery, a robot may be at your side:In quest for efficiency, savings, hospital is testing at-home mechanical monitors (Boston Globe)
Social Platform for Accelerating Resources and Connections (SPARC)
July 27, 2012: Announcing the finalists for the first ever Health Care PR & Marketing Awards (Ragan's Healthcare Communications)
April 5, 2012: A Vision of the Workplace of the Future: Featuring Childrens's SPARC (Marie Wiere's Blue Sky Management Blog)
March 17, 2012: Joomla Jumps to the Enterprise: Featuring Children's SPARC (CIO Magazine)
Innovators' Forum Innovations
July 2, 2012: Can you see what I see? Maybe not, but the computer can (Vector Blog)
June 4, 2012: Let the line shine through: Lighting the way for complicated IV lines - May Innovators' Forum (Vector Blog)
March 25, 2011: Guiding devices to market, and mending broken hearts - March Innovators' Forum (Vector Blog)
February 16, 2011: Beating-heart surgery and the search for a killer app - February Innovators' Forum (Vector Blog)
November 21, 2011: Serendipity in science: Collaborating to build robotic clothing for brain-damaged children (Vector Blog)
October 15, 2010: Housecalls: Back to the future - October Innovators' Forum (Vector Blog)
Events
Innovation Day - Feb 14, 2012
March 4, 2012: Incubating ideas from the rank-and-file (Boston Globe)
February 22, 2012: Innovation Day at Children’s Hospital Boston (Focus - Harvard Medical Magazine)
February 22, 2012: Medical Miracles: Innovation Day At Boston Children's Hospital Celebrates Technologies That Make Impossible Successful (The Heights - Boston College Newspaper)
February 22, 2012: Children’s Hospital Boston’s Innovation Day Showcases Local MedTech (Medgadget Exclusive)
February 22, 2012: Innovation: Keeping the flame alive (Vector Blog)
February 20, 2012: Children's Innovation Day (SBR Health Blog)
February 17, 2012: Celebrating Innovation Day: In Pictures (Vector Blog)
February 14, 2012: Boston is Leading the Way in Healthcare Innovation and Children’s Hospital Wants to Showcase it (BostInno - Boston Innovation Blog)
February 14, 2012: Today is Innovation Day at Childrens Hospital Boston #iDay (Biotech Strategy Blog)
February 9, 2012: The heart of innovation (Thriving)
February 8, 2012: Innovation Day at Children’s Hospital Boston: A preview (Vector Blog)
