Who We Are

Pulse @ MassChallenge

PULSE@MassChallenge is the digital health arm of the MassChallenge accelerator.  HTL is thrilled to be a Champion for PULSE@’s inaugural year.  Champions connect with start-ups within PULSE@ through mutual matchmaking and provide 6 months of mentorship.

The startups we are currently mentoring for Spring 2017 are:

• Emerald Innovations – Tracks the 3D motion of patients at home through radio signals to detect falls.
• Medumo – Provides timely texts and emails with links to interactive education, to help providers deliver the right instructions to the right patient at the right time.

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Aetna Foundation

Recognizing the emerging career path of the Clinician Innovator, the Aetna Foundation sponsors our Fellows Program in Healthcare Innovation.  This one year action-learning program provides a unique opportunity for healthcare professionals interested in care delivery transformation projects to make an impact on the front lines. Fellows spend the majority of the year leading care delivery innovation projects in an academic medical center with mentorship from experts in the field as well as support from senior leadership.

HTL’s Aetna Foundation Fellows for 2017-2018 are:

• Yanik Bababekov, MD, MPH – Surgical Resident, Massachusetts General Hospital
• Jocelyn Carter , MD, MPH – Assistant in Medicine, General Medicine Division, Massachusetts General Hospital

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AstraZeneca

AstraZeneca is a sponsor of Co.Create, HTL’s program for Boston-area student startups.  Through the generosity of AstraZeneca, we are able to offer our program winners seed funding, in addition to mentorship and clinical expertise.

Past winners of Co.Create include:

• Ask Wilhelm
• Ear ID
• QuantaFit

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Harvard Business School

HTL’s open innovation contest, the Ether Dome Challenge, was designed in partnership with the Crowd Innovation Lab at Harvard Business School.  Under the leadership of Karim Lakhani, who specializes in distributed innovation and crowdsourcing, the lab studies and advises on the topic crowdsourcing as an innovation tool.  Researchers from the Crowd Innovation Lab studied the first two cycles of the Ether Dome Challenge to learn what motivates people to participate in the contest.  Their insights can be found in their working paper, Motivating Effort in Contributing Public Goods Inside Organizations: Field Experimental Evidence. (http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/crowdinnovationlab/publications/motivating-effort-contributing-public-goods-inside-organizations )

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MIT Hacking Medicine

Co.Create, HTL’s external innovation contest, was developed in partnership with MIT Hacking Medicine.   The goal of the program is to transform early-stage ideas into sustainable solutions through dedicated mentorship, funding, and support.   The program pairs student innovators with subject matter experts and resources within an exceptional academic medical center and a leading healthcare innovation community.  After two successful cycles with MIT, we’re pleased to announce that Co.Create is now open to all Boston-area students.

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MassArt

In Spring 2016, undergraduate students from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt) took part in a 10-week project on hospital navigation. Led by Associate Professor Joe Quackenbush, the students were tasked with proposing approaches and tools to improve the patient wayfinding experience at Mass General. Students studied the MGH campus, drew sketches, and interviewed patients in order to evaluate the current state and offer their recommendations. After impressive final presentations, we look forward to future collaborations with MassArt!

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HUBweek

HUBweek is a first-of-its-kind civic collaboration among The Boston Globe, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Massachusetts General Hospital celebrating innovation and creativity. As part of HUBweek, the Healthcare Transformation Lab hosts a Digital Health Fair highlighting MGH teams working in digital health, as well as emerging technology companies and organizations helping to drive change in the healthcare system.

Attendees are able to see first-hand how technology and medicine are teaming up to revolutionize healthcare in Boston and around the globe. Stay tuned for news about HUBWeek 2017.

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Innovation Learning Network

The Innovation Learning Network is an organizational-based membership network made up of healthcare systems, health foundations, safety net providers, design/innovation firms, and tech companies. Although their individual missions vary, all member organizations carry a common goal: to make healthcare better through good design.  HTL is thrilled to benefit from the collective knowledge of the ILN!

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mLab

• Massachusetts General Physicians Organization (A founding member of mLab)
• Information Systems Management and Planning Team (A founding member of mLab)
• Lab of Computer Science (A founding member of mLab)

A collaboration between the Healthcare Transformation Lab, the MGPO, IS Management and Planning and LCS, mLab serves as an innovation partner and incubator for MGH and its diverse groups and departments by:

• facilitating the design, development, and implementation of mobile solutions;
• evaluating and integrating digital health care tools and products that address patient and provider needs; and
• serving as a hub to make connections and find synergies among MGH innovators, Partners teams, and external groups from academia and industry interested in collaborating around digital health solutions.

Lab of Computer Science

For more than half a century, the Laboratory of Computer Science (LCS) at Massachusetts General Hospital has been transforming health care delivery through biomedical informatics research and the rapid development of innovative health information systems. LCS advancements have enabled Mass General and other hospitals to provide better, more efficient service and have improved patient outcomes and quality of care. LCS is a key partner in the mLab collaboration.

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TeleHealth

Massachusetts General Hospital TeleHealth enables community providers and Mass General clinicians to provide high-quality, coordinated care to patients and families through virtual technology including: phone, video, text, email, mobile applications and remote monitoring. The Healthcare Transformation Lab served as the implementing arm for TeleHeart, TeleHealth’s cardiology offering. The TeleHealth team frequently collaborates with and advises us on digital health initiative.

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CAMTech

Based at Massachusetts General Hospital’s Global Health department, CAMTech is a global network of academic, clinical, corporate, government and non-profit partners, working together to drive health innovation around the world. Collaborating across sectors and geographies, CAMTech identifies pressing clinical needs from the field, crowdsources innovative solutions, and accelerates the cycle from idea to patient impact.

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BioMedical Engineering

In partnership with clinicians, researchers and other engineering groups, MGH Biomedical Engineering ensures that technology is used appropriately and safely, performs properly and is managed cost-effectively. MGH BioMedical Engineering strives to improve and develop devices and instrumentation for healthcare delivery and for innovative medical and scientific research and to assist others at Partners who are working toward the same objectives. HTL is collaborating with MGH BioMedical Engineering on its Real Time Tracking initiative for asset management.

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Department of Medicine Innovation Program

The Medicine Innovation Program (MIP) was developed as a crucial component of the Department of Medicine’s support of the culture and practice of innovation. The MIP is charged with accelerating the development and introduction of broadly applicable innovative ideas and cost effective technologies into the patient/provider community both within and outside of Massachusetts General Hospital and the Department of Medicine – including information technology, and care delivery to device and drug approaches.  For the past two years, HTL and MIP have co-sponsored digital health innovation grants to clinician innovators.

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Partners Innovation

Partners HealthCare Innovation coordinates industrial relationships and IP management across Partners HealthCare, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, and McLean Hospital.

Partners Innovation is a cohesive, coordinated group servicing medical inventors, thought-leaders, entrepreneurs and industry. Their goal is to take medical inventions and innovations discovered by Partners HealthCare researchers and provide the appropriate support and infrastructure to allow technology development, commercialization and, ultimately, the development of products to benefit patients.

The team has backgrounds in technology licensing, patenting, bench research, finance, funding, business, law and start-ups.

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