Fall 2012 Innovation Centers Summit Workshop
November 14, 2012

(San Leandro, CA) Twenty Healthcare Innovation Centers from across the country met at Kaiser Permanente's Garfield Innovation Center in a full day workshop. Sponsored by BluePrint Healthcare IT, Kaiser Permanente, and Foundation for Healthcare Innovation, Innovation Center representatives participated in breakout sessions to draft best practices in six topic areas and then the group conducted a total of forty speed dating/matching sessions. The day started with tours of the premier Garfield Center.

Summit Workshop Co-Chairs Faye K Sahai of Kaiser Permanente and Wil Yu of Foundation for Healthcare Innovation opened the day with a welcome to Garfield and provided perspective on the role of innovation in healthcare. Mike Squires, BluePrint Healthcare IT, also Co-Chair, previewed the overarching goal of the day—cross-pollination among centers—and then introduced the six breakout sessions.

Six breakout groups each used a case study to start the Best Practices conversation, identified problems in the area, drafted three to six Best Practices for Innovation Centers, and recommended next steps. The topics explored were Prototyping/ Lab/ Commercialization, Managing the Innovation Life Cycle, Sharing Innovations Internally, Medical Device Interoperability, Future Healthcare and Tech Envisioning, and Mobile Technology. Meeting together in full session, the six groups shared their findings.

In the afternoon, each Innovation Center presented a 3-minute/3-slide brief of their organization. The briefs opened the way for four one-on-one speed dating sessions between Innovation Centers.  In 15-minute sessions the potential partners started to explore a topic of mutual interest. If the meetings clicked, the centers agreed to follow up with more substantive discussions on ways of working together.

Whether discussing best practices, ways of working together, or learning about each other, the intensity and enthusiasm lasted throughout the day. The day ended with meeting informally with non-healthcare Innovation Centers.

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Participating Innovation Centers

• Aetna
  Aetna Accountable Care Solutions - Learning Laboratory 
• Ascension Health Alliance
  Innovations Accelerator Team
• Community Health Network
  Community Launchpad
• Dignity Health
  Center for Strategic Innovation
• Group Health Cooperative
  Group Health Research Institute and its MacColl Center for Health Care Innovation
• Intermountain Healthcare
  Homer Warner Center for Informatics Research
• Kaiser Permanente
  Innovation Learning Network
• Kaiser Permanente
  Kaiser Permanente Sidney R Garfield Health Care Innovation Center
• NJ Health Care Innovation Center
  Supported by Barnabas Health and NJ Institute of Technology
• Palomar Health
  Palomar Health Innovation Institute
• Partners
  Partners/CIMIT
• Seton Healthcare Family
  Seton Clinical Design and Innovation Center
• St. Joseph Health, CA
  The Innovation Institute
• Stanford Hospital & Clinics
  Stanford Hospital and Clinics - Innovation Center
• The Scripps Research Institute
  Scripps Translational Science Institute
• UCLA Health System
  Institute for Innovation in Health
• UCSF
  UCSF Center for Digital Health Innovation
• University of South Alabama, College of Medicine
  Center for Strategic Health Innovation
• Vanderbilt University
  Vanderbilt Center for Better Health
• Virginia Mason Health System
  Virginia Mason Medical Center

Links direct you to Innovation Center website where provided.

Breakout Sessions
Click on each to see the PDF presentation and best practices identified. 

• Prototyping / Lab / Commercialization
• Managing the Innovation Lifecycle
• Sharing Innovations Internally: From Development to Deployment
• Medical Device Interoperability
• Future Healthcare and Tech Envisioning
• Mobile Technology

Summit Workshop Co-chairs

• Faye K Sahai
  Exec Director, Innovation & Adv Tech, Digital Health Tech & Strategic Initiatives
  Kaiser Permanente
  
  
• Wil Yu
  Director
  Foundation for Healthcare Innovation
  (Formerly with Office of National Coordinator for Health IT and CMS Innovation Center, US Dept of Health and Human Services)
  
  
• Mike Squires
  Vice President, Strategic Development and Public Policy
  BluePrint Healthcare IT

In his December 1 , 2012 post "Innovation, What is it?", John Moore, Managing Partner, Chilmark Research, shared his observation from the Workshop: Innovation Centers have the opportunity to identify the need for improved interoperability across systems.

- Read the full article.