- A Note from Susan
- 2020-2021 Annual Report
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March 15th Innovation Blender
- Celebrating Innovation
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Innovation Clinical Coach - Dr. Nir Harish
- Innovator Updates
- Program Updates
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Innovation 101 - Discovery Skill: Associating
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SUSAN AHERN
Vice President
of Innovation
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A Note from Susan
Susan Ahern - Vice President of Innovation, MaineHealth
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I am pleased to share that the 2020-2021 MaineHealth Innovation Annual Report is now live! This report is a celebration of innovation across MaineHealth and the brave innovators, partners and leaders who have shaped MaineHealth Innovation over our first two years. I hope this brings a smile to your face and inspires you and your teams to think differently and dream big.
Thank you to all who have joined us in fostering a culture of innovation. I look forward to all we will accomplish next as we transform care through innovation!
The 2020-2021
MaineHealth Innovation Annual Report
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INNOVATION CLINICAL COACH SPOTLIGHT
The MaineHealth Innovation Clinical Coaches help drive the success of MaineHealth Innovation by providing clinical leadership and expertise as innovators work to solve unmet care needs. Each month, an Innovation Clinical Coach will be highlighted to recognize their support of MaineHealth Innovation.
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Connect with Nir:
Learn more about the
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Nir Harish, MD, MBA
Emergency Physician, Pen Bay Medical Center
"MaineHealth Innovation is about creating a platform for grassroots ideas that come from all across MaineHealth. The end result is often something that goes right back to the bedside and makes a real difference for the care team and patients.”
Nir Harish, MD, MBA is an emergency physician at Pen Bay Medical Center in Rockport, ME. He joined Pen Bay after completing the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program at Yale University, where he studied the economics of acute care and alternative business models for health care delivery. He completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at the Denver Health Residency in Emergency Medicine, where he also served as a chief resident. He received his undergraduate degree from Yale University, and an MD/MBA from Harvard Medical School and Harvard Business School, where he studied health care systems and operations.
He has previously consulted on process improvement for the CDC, directed a national patient safety education collaborative, worked in business development for a medical device company, and participated in Emergency Department redesign at two academic medical centers. He has also consulted for a number of health care startups and entrepreneurs.
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Dr. Michael Ferguson demonstrating the augmented reality innovation at MMC in 2021. |
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Augmented Reality for Neonatal Resuscitation Innovation Gains National Attention |
Dr. Ferguson and Dr. Ottolini were able to advance the neonatal resuscitation simulation project through the Fall 2020 MaineHealth Innovation Cohort and, in part, with a MaineHealth Innovation Ignite Fund investment.
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The latest prototype of the Pocket Nodules-Lung innovation. |
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3D Pocket Nodules Featured by International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer |
Maine Medical Center's Theresa Roelke, APRN-AGPCNP was invited to present her patient education innovation, Pocket Nodules-Lung, to a committee of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) in January 2022. IASLC is interested in potentially commercializing the Pocket Nodules-Lung product to increase patients' understanding of the risk of lung cancer and diagnosis. The organization has also featured Theresa's innovation on its website.
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PROGRAM UPDATES
Innovation Cohort | Innovation Elective | Innovation Fund | Innovation Blender |
Brewing Ideas Coffee Corner
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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS!
MaineHealth Innovation Spring 2022 Programs
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This 8-week program helps MaineHealth care team members advance an early innovative "back of the envelope" idea that addresses an unmet care need.
Application Deadline
April 1, 2022 at 12:00pm EST
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Innovation Cohort
Information Sessions
Join the MaineHealth Innovation team to learn more about the Innovation Cohort program and application process.
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The 12-month MaineHealth Innovation Ignite Fund provides an investment of up to $20,000 to help innovators understand their user pain points, pilot an idea, build a prototype, or test an assumption.
Application Deadline
March 15, 2022 at 12:00pm EST
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Innovation Ignite Fund
Information Sessions
Join the MaineHealth Innovation team to learn more about the Innovation Ignite Fund and application process.
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Need help filling out an application?
Join us for MaineHealth Innovation Office Hours every other Friday from 12:00-1:00pm EST
via Zoom. The next sessions are Mar. 11 and Mar. 25. Register here.
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Over the past several months, our MaineHealth Innovation newsletter has featured tips for developing skills to “think differently” and to adopt a more innovative mindset. In each issue, we have presented a new Discovery Skill based on the work of Jeffrey Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clayton Christensen, leaders in disruptive innovation. Last month we covered experimenting. You can check out that Innovation tip here from our January newsletter. Using the skills may inspire and challenge you to create new innovative insights.
Discovery Skill: Associating
“Creativity is connecting things.” — Steve Jobs
Over the past several months, we have been sharing different discovery skills, or behaviors, we can adopt to catalyze innovative thinking.
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Skills in Action:
Jeremy Lott, MD, a radiology resident at Maine Medical Center, has a passion for car mechanics. As a radiology resident, he also recognized that there was a need to create a more efficient and safe process for filling and using syringes. Using a syringe with the wrong contents or filling a syringe improperly increases a patient's risk of procedural complications. He asked, “what if there was an easier, safer way to do this work? How might auto mechanic properties change the way this process is done? What are the associations that can be made between filling syringes and the way hydraulic blocks work?” Out of this thinking came the Hydraulic Manifold for the Distribution of Contrast, Saline, and Other Media (pictured above), a novel tool that receives input from low-pressure fluid reservoirs to improve efficiency and safety at minimal cost. Through the Innovation Cohort and the Innovation Ignite Fund, Jeremy has been working with the USM MIST lab on prototyping and is now collaborating with a MaineHealth Innovation Intellectual Property/Business Development Committee member on advancing his idea.
Taking the Next Step: Join us for Innovation Coffee Corner on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays from 8:30-9:30am and let’s brainstorm together on a problem you are trying to solve!
Already have an idea for a novel solution to a problem you see? Apply for the next cycle of the Innovation Cohort, a program that focuses on building your discovery skills to help refine your proposed innovative solution.
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MaineHealth Innovation Services
Through education, connections and funding, we are fostering a culture of innovation across the MaineHealth system to advance novel solutions that address unmet care needs.
MaineHealth Innovation Center Programs
Help us celebrate innovation!
Help us celebrate innovation and create a resource for sharing
innovation across MaineHealth by submitting your innovation story!
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Let us know how we can help support innovation:
The MaineHealth Innovation
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