Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Roundtable Featured Technology Discussion at Global Digital Health Partnership Convening
This week, government digital health leaders from over 30 countries representing the Global Digital Health Partnership gathered in London, England to discuss emerging technology policy matters regarding health data. These meetings are establishing an international framework of sharing information on strategies nations’ governments are using to maximize the benefits of data and technology to improve […]
Georgetown Health Care Innovators at Work!
We celebrate the determined and dedicated work of the Executive MHA students this week at @Georgetown University in the Business Innovations course. Their experience in this intensive course has led to a series of new concepts aimed at value creation in health care services. We also acknowledge the participation of delegates from the University of […]
Data as a Strategic Institutional Asset to Catalyze Healthcare Delivery Innovation
The following post is cross posted from AcademyHealth.org by Aparna Higgins & Gregory Downing, D.O., Ph.D. With a massive growth in data and information, there is a bounty of opportunity for value creation at hand. But delivery systems will have to be strategic about the use of data in order to be truly innovative. Future historians of the […]
Boosting the Entrepreneurs’ Effectiveness Mojo – New Insights on Measuring Attitudes and Mind-sets of Innovators
A key aspect of any entrepreneurial enterprise is measuring the impact of the solutions you test. We are interested in building organizational capabilities for creating a culture of innovation. Bringing these two ideas together, we recently published research data studying the use of a tool to assess the entrepreneurial attitudes and mind-sets of innovators participating […]
Finalists to be Selected in MaRS Procurement by Co-Design Challenge
Dr. Greg Downing, Founder of Innovations Horizons and former Executive Director of Innovation for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will be at the MaRS Discovery District in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on Friday July 20th as a member of an evaluation panel selecting the winner of the 2018 Procurement by Co-Design Challenge. The […]
25th Academy Health Research Meeting
This past week, I was pleased to have moderated, with Paul Wallace, a lively discussion with an innovative panel of data experts at the 25th Academy Health Annual Research Meeting in Seattle focused on strategies for data in health care analytics. The session ‘Navigating the Swell of Data, Surging Data Science and Rising Delivery System […]
3rd Annual Precision Medicine Leaders Summit
On June 28, 2018, I was happy to have presented at the 3rd Annual Precision Medicine Leaders Summit. Co-presenters on the panel included Yauheni Soldad, MD, Medical Director, Digital Health, Yale New Haven Health and Rahul Patel, MS, EVP &GM – Healthcare & Life Sciences, Persistent Systems, Inc. Moderated by Ashish Atreja, MD, MPH, Asst. […]
International Community Building to Advance Digital Health: The Global Digital Health Partnership
Given the vast diversity of health care system models around the world, have you ever wondered how information technology and health care services can be created to support global needs? A new intergovernmental group has been formed to help lower barriers for international uses of data and hasten innovation in health care. This past week, […]
Horizons of Change: Exploring Social Impact Innovation in Health Care
Today, I’m honored to lead the amazing students of the Executive Masters of Science in Health Systems Administration Program at Georgetown University in kicking off a new experiential course on Social Impact Innovation (EHSY 725-01). Our pioneering work will explore how new structures for supporting change can be applied to vexing challenges in health care […]
Celebrating Co-Design Procurement Innovation at MaRS Discovery District
An amazing array of talent was gathered today and engaged in high-powered discussions at the launch of MaRS 2nd cohort of Co-Design Procurement Teams aiming to solve important health care delivery challenges. MARS is a regional non-profit innovation hub in Toronto that is playing a huge role in supporting health care innovators in Ontario, Canada, […]
