Emory Healthcare Innovation Hub Adds 4 Major Industry Partners
The Emory Healthcare Innovation Hub, set up last year to improve patient care and provider experience by using cutting-edge health technology, has added four major healthcare industry partners to its efforts.
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- The Emory Healthcare Innovation Hub, set up last year to improve patient care and provider experience by using cutting-edge health technology, has added four major healthcare industry partners to its efforts.
Konica Minolta Healthcare, Novo Nordisk, Philips, and Stryker have joined the hub’s stable of strategic partners. Areas of focus for the hub are precision medicine, genetics, trauma/emergency medicine, orthopedics, obesity, and rural access to care through telehealth.
The hub came about from a partnership between Emory Healthcare and Sharecare to use a demand-driven innovation approached developed with 11ITEN Innovations Partners to identify technology improvements with a focus on the end user while having an impact on cost, quality, and patient outcomes.
“What we’ve tried to do is curate the most pressing challenges in work flow and clinical health opportunities and bring in big businesses and startups to test technology to solve our problems,” Scott Boden, MD, vice president of business innovation for Emory Healthcare and chief medical/quality officer for Emory University Orthopaedics and Spine Hospital, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper.
“We think because we’re going to be developing and testing and validating (technology) in a care-use environment, that that’s going to greatly accelerate the development timeline,” he added.
For example, Konica Minolta Healthcare intends to test diagnostic tools and genetic screening processes for early cancer detection at Emory's facilities.
Boden said he expects three or four more industry partners to join the hub by the end of the year.
“Emory Healthcare is excited to see the expansion of the Emory Healthcare Innovation Hub through its newest strategic partners, which are some of the largest companies in the world committed to creating meaningful solutions and outcomes in health and health care,” said Jonathan Lewin, MD, president, CEO, and chairman of the board at Emory Healthcare, in a statement.
“The addition of these partners from across the health care industry will allow the Emory Healthcare Innovation Hub to leverage a technology and innovation ecosystem to validate ideas locally and positively affect the lives of people around the globe.”
