Massachusetts General Hospital — Est. 2014
Great ideas to improve healthcare are everywhere.
We turn frontline clinical pain points into deployed, validated care — from the hospital to the home.
THE RECORD
Proof, not promises.
50+
projects taken from idea to implementation
80K+
clinicians reached by HTL-built tools
200
countries using our clinical apps
10+
years turning ideas into care
FEATURED WORK
A decade of deployed innovation.
Acute Care at Home
Acute Care at Home
Meeting patients where they are — delivering hospital-level acute care in the comfort of a patient’s own home.
Active
Clinical Decision Support
Clinical Decision Support
Putting evidence-based guidance directly in clinicians' hands — building and validating the digital tools that support critical decisions at the point of care.
Active
Open Innovation
Open Innovation Contests
Turning the daily frustrations of MGH's front-line staff into tested solutions, through an open-innovation program run with Harvard Business School.
Active
WHERE DO YOU COME IN?
Find your path.
STARTUPS · HEALTH-TECH · MGH CLINICIANS
Collaborate
Bring us a pain point or a technology. We co-develop, validate, and help implement it in real clinical settings.
RESIDENTS & RESEARCHERS
Fellowship
Spend a year building real care-delivery projects on the front lines through our Applied Research Fellowship.
PARTNERS · FUNDERS · THE CURIOUS
Our Work
See the full record — active and archived — of what the lab has designed and deployed since 2014.
OUR APPROACH
We start where the work is hard.
Every project begins with a frontline pain point. We pair clinicians, engineers, and entrepreneurs to design, validate, and implement solutions that last — carrying forward the same spirit of invention that created the famous Ether Dome.
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