Publications - CIMIT MAIN

Publications

Point-of-Care Technology Research Network - An evolving model for collaborative translational research in biomedical engineering

As the healthcare system evolves from a centralized, hospital- and office-based model to an emphasis on patient-centric care delivered in decentralized settings from the community and/or home to...

Healthcare innovation methodology - codifying the process of translating knowledge into better healthcare products, services, and procedures

Much effort and funding has gone into defining and improving the process of creating scientific and medical knowledge that will improve healthcare. However, comparatively little has been published...

Navigating the HealthTech Innovation Cycle

The journey from identifying and articulating an important unmet medical need to developing an innovative solution which becomes the standard of care is long and challenging, with most teams...

Avoiding Deal Killers

In today’s environment, even promising healthech innovations fail to get investments from financially motivated investors. As a result, solutions do not survive the so-called Valley of Death. There...

National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering Point-of-Care Technology Research Network

This paper describes the POCTRN and the three currently funded Centers as examples of academic-based organizations that support collaborations across disciplines, institutions, and geographic...

Heathcare Commercialization Programs

Healthcare commercialization programs (HCPs) are described and proposed as an option that institutions can add to their portfolio to improve translational research. In helping teams translate...

Clinical Impact Study Update

This is an ongoing, work-in-process update of CIMIT’s Clinical Impact Study (CIS). First conducted in 2009, the CIS is a self-assessment by CIMIT faculty and investigators of its project portfolio...

IEEE Pulse Featuring CIMIT

If ever an industry was in need of both incremental and disruptive innovation it is today's health care industry. Realizing the full potential of innovation across the spectrum of health care...

Facilitating Translational Research

Would a carpenter be asked to manage building a new housing development? Probably not. More likely a real estate developer with the skills, experience and knowledge of the local market and trades,...

Venture Findings Featuring the CIMIT Model

The Consortia for Improving Medicine with Innovation & Technology (CIMIT) was established in 1998 by four leading academic medical centers and universities in the greater Boston area to leverage...

Accelerating Innovation Through Coopetition - The Innovation Learning Network Experience

Coopetition, the simultaneous pursuit of cooperation and competition, is a growing force in the innovation landscape. For some organizations, the primary mode of innovation continues to be deeply...