Social Innovation Led by the Community Will Promote Sustainable Cities

Social housing communities, and the residents of those communities, are often overlooked resources in transitioning cities to a circular economy system. Social housing refers to a system that provides housing for below market value to residents, and circular economics refers to a system that reshapes consumption and production in cities to promote resource efficiency. By […]

Innovation Horizons to Provide IT Engineering & Support to DC Health Benefits Exchange

Innovation Horizons has been awarded a contract by the District of Columbia Health Benefits Exchange (HBX) to provide IT engineering and special project support. The DC Health Benefit Exchange Authority was established by the District of Columbia to develop and operate the on-line health insurance marketplace called DC Health Link for residence and small businesses […]

Viewpoints on the Future of Healthcare Data

The following is cross-posted from HIMSS. This year, HIMSS is proud to be a collaborating partner in the 10th anniversary of Health Datapalooza – AcademyHealth’s annual convening on health data and technology. The collaboration furthers HIMSS commitment to meaningful transformation of data into new capabilities that deliver innovation in health transformation. As part of that collaboration, we’ll […]

Celebrating Community-based Innovation Projects for Person-Centered Health Care

This week I had the fantastic opportunity to participate in two community project showcases led by incredible innovators in Boston, MA and Washington, D.C.  Often, that first step in the innovator’s journey is the toughest. What I loved about these two experiences was the focus on patient experiences, collaboration among stakeholders as active participants and […]

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 […]

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

Academy Health Conference Hall

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

Precision Leadership 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. […]