We see examples in every nook and cranny of healthcare… or do we?
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Some find despair in disaster… others find opportunity.
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Cleveland Clinic and MedStar Health create an Innovation Alliance
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They criticized him, saying he did things backwards. So, he raised the bar.
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It took consuming citrus fruits for the prevention of scurvy 264 years from discovery to widespread adoption. Today, the time from discovery to implementation is estimated at 17 or 18 years. How much can we close this gap? In this video from FutureMed, medical futurist Dr. Michael Gillam explores this answer and where he expects us to be in 2025.
Watch for Dr. Gillam’s Dispatches From…Somewhere In The Future coming exclusively to MI2.org soon.
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Biomimicry comes from bio- and mimesis, literally “to imitate life”. Biomimicry is a structured look at how the natural world has solved problems or created opportunities and attempting to apply those strategies to design, engineering, invention, health and wellness, and more.
Often thought of as a “new” discipline, technically, it is actually quite ancient. Much of how we learn comes from mimicking. And indeed, many developments throughout medical history have come from mimicking nature – the natural world within ourselves and outside of our own species.
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We see them every day… Or do we? All around us, in every nook and cranny of healthcare, there are opportunities for improvement and opportunities for outright innovation.
It may not be a new device, gadget or widget, however. More likely, it will come in the form of a simple design element. And there’s no one better than you to bring it about. After all, you live it every day.
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Can games help us prevent or cure disease? Improve patient compliance? Make a safer health environment? Or improve medical education?
In this TED MED talk, Steve Cole from HopeLab discusses cancer therapy and the game Remission. Watch this video and explore the role of play and games in health innovation.
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Nature's low hanging innovation fruit - Biomimicry - learning from what's worked for millenia.
When the mission is patient first, don't try first on patients. SiTEL - innovative learning and simulation.
To err is human. But to better is also human. Learn more about human factors engineering at MI2.