Program Leader: David Judge, MD
The barriers to delivering and adopting innovations in real-world health care settings are significant. Clinical environments are commonly demanding, fast-paced, and complex. That type of setting creates many challenges to innovation, including: simply finding the time and mental space to envision future needs; establishing partnerships with industry and academia; preserving momentum; and experimenting with potential innovations while maintaining day-to-day operations.
Clinical Problem: Make patient care safer, more accessible, more efficient, and less costly across the entire continuum of care.
CIMIT Solutions:
- Design and construct “Operating Room of the Future,” a fully functioning operating room in which novel, integrated technologies and new processes are introduced, evaluated, and improved, and through which patients move with far greater comfort, speed and safety.
- Implement “Connected Health,” an initiative to provide care to patients where they live and work via remote wearable, wireless monitoring, telemedicine, and other innovative technologies.
- Implement and collaborate in creating the MGH “Ambulatory Practice of the Future,” an initiative to design and evaluate an ideal outpatient care paradigm that incorporates the latest technologies and optimal patient-care systems.
To overcome these barriers and facilitate innovation, CIMIT works with clinicians and administrative leadership to establish Clinical Systems Innovations. CIMIT is supporting collaboration-enabling technologies, including networked sensor solutions, wireless monitoring, and tracking systems. These and others will be implemented in various environments across the continuum of care from hospital to home.
