Saturday 18 May

Health Innovation

The Hidden Influence of Our Social Networks

The Hidden Influence of Our Social Networks

And can we harness that power in social collaboration?

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Innovation and Facility Design Workshop

Innovation and Facility Design Workshop

Re-designing the ED? You’ve got one shot. Make it a great one.

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Creative Health Innovation Funding

Creative Health Innovation Funding

Faster with crowdfunding and progressive employers

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Good Design, Poor Design

Good Design, Poor Design

We see examples in every nook and cranny of healthcare… or do we?

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MedStar Inventor Forums – A First Hand Account

MedStar Inventor Forums – A First Hand Account

Don’t reinvent the invention process.

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MI2 Mission

To catalyze innovation that advances health. What is MI2?

MedStar Inventor Services

Thoughts on Innovation

Ideas will always be easier to find if they are not shot down on sight.

Scott Berkun, The Myths of Innovation

Connect with MI2

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Creative Health Innovation Funding

Funding Health Innovation With Crowdfunding Or Through Progressive EmployersAction is a necessary ingredient for innovation. And health innovations are notoriously difficult to fund – often relying heavily on the time-consuming process of obtaining grants or yielding some ownership through venture capital. Well, new opportunities are presenting themselves. Health innovations may be funded through crowdsourcing sites like Kickstarter and through progressive employers like MedStar Health.

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Health Innovation Adoption Curves – From Scurvy To 2025

Health Innovation History - Vasco de Gama & Scurvy PreventionIt 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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Another Cool Example of Biomimicry in Healthcare Innovation

Biomimicry and Health Innovations - Another Cool ExampleBiomimicry 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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Good Design, Poor Design

Design in Everyday Healthcare - Opportunities for InnovationWe 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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Biomimicry

Nature's low hanging innovation fruit - Biomimicry - learning from what's worked for millenia.

Sim-Learning

When the mission is patient first, don't try first on patients. SiTEL - innovative learning and simulation.

Human Factors

To err is human. But to better is also human. Learn more about human factors engineering at MI2.