- A Note from Susan
- Innovation Highlight: NavigatER
- Spring 2022 Program Participants
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- Program Updates
- Innovator Updates
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Opportunities - Connect, Educate and Fund
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SUSAN AHERN
Vice President
of Innovation
Susan.Ahern@
mainehealth.org
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A Note from Susan
Susan Ahern - Vice President of Innovation, MaineHealth
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I am pleased to announce the recipients of the MaineHealth Innovation Ignite Fund and the courageous, passionate care team members who will be joining our Spring 2022 MaineHealth Innovation Cohort! Congratulations to our innovators who will work on advancing their novel solutions, described below.
All 22,000 MaineHealth care team members are invited to join these programs. Each application cycle yields new innovators and ideas from across MaineHealth. This cycle, we are welcoming innovators from different backgrounds - cancer therapeutic research to surgery to bariatric dietetics, and more - from all corners of the MaineHealth system - from North Conway, NH to Brunswick, ME. Thank you to the over 25 internal and external application reviewers who bring decades of experience in a variety of disciplines and eagerly lend their expertise and feedback to our innovators. Innovation truly takes a village!
I look forward to serving our care team members to help advance their novel solutions to our unmet care needs.
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Innovation Highlight
An App for Patient Peace of Mind: navigatER
| Six years ago, Samir Haydar, DO, MPH, attending Emergency Physician at Maine Medical Center (MMC) and MaineHealth Innovation Ignite Fund recipient, was waiting to be seated at a restaurant. The hostess asked for his phone number upon arrival and said that he would be texted when his table was ready. Samir wondered, ‘Why don’t we have this in our emergency department?’ | | |
Reviewers at Ignite Fund Pitch Day on April 13. | |
Thank You to Program Application Reviewers!
Each spring and fall, a diverse group of multi-disciplinary reviewers from MaineHealth and our partner organizations provide clinical and industry expertise and feedback to help select the novel solutions that will benefit from the MaineHealth Innovation programs. Thank you to the 25+ reviewers from over a dozen industries for lending your time to the Spring 2022 review process and helping MaineHealth innovators advance their novel solutions! See the full list of reviewers.
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MaineHealth Innovation Ignite Fund
The following recipients received $20,000 from the MaineHealth Innovation Ignite Fund to advance their novel ideas that address unmet care needs. Over the next year, Peter, Jim and Obi will take their solutions to the next level with connections, education and funding from MaineHealth Innovation and its industry and entrepreneurial partners. Learn more about the Ignite Fund.
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Development of a mAb targeting the tumor matrix (CMX102) as a 'first-in-class' agent for immunotherapy and drug delivery
Peter Brooks, PhD | Faculty Scientist III, Maine Medical Center Research Institute
Peter aims to bring a cancer therapeutic to market through a humanized monoclonal antibody (CMX102) that has significant promise as an immunotherapeutic agent.
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Home Health Standing Portable Workstation
Jim Byrne, PT, DPT | Physical Therapist, MidCoast Hospital/CHANS Home Health & Hospice
Jim aims to improve the quality and the efficiency of home health care by creating a novel portable home health workstation that allows providers a proper workstation in a variety of environments.
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Lediscan: detecting and treating cervical cancer, before it occurs
Obieze Nwanna-Nzewunwa, MD, MS | Surgery Resident, Maine Medical Center
Obi aims to address a lack of cheap, accessible cervical cancer screening through Lediscan, a low-cost, hand-held, point-of-care device to “test & treat” cervical pre- cancer in the same gynecological exam, thereby improving access to screening and limiting loss to follow up.
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MaineHealth Innovation Cohort
This spring, the following MaineHealth care team members will bring their innovation ideas to the MaineHealth Innovation Cohort, which aims to help advance early, “back of the envelope” ideas. Participants will learn the basics of innovation science, conduct user discovery, start prototyping, and consider intellectual property needs.
PEGE: Hands-On PEG tube model & education tool
Chelsea Hardy, MS, RD, LD - Clinical Bariatric Dietitian, Southern Maine Health Care
Year Round Wellness: use of virtual chat to help pediatric patients grow up healthy
Charlotte Helvie, MD - Pediatrician, Memorial Hospital
Histology Transport Container Insert
Sue LaPierre - BioBank Scientific Manager, Maine Medical Center
Public Animated Video Campaign to Increase Mental Health Literacy
Hannah Burley, MD - Psychiatrist, Maine Medical Center
Community-Based Biometric Devices for Diabetic Patients (1st project)
EPIC Post-operative Scheduling Assistant for Patients with Limb Loss (2nd project)
Benjamin Branch, DO - Associate Medical Director, Maine Medical Partners Neurosurgery and Spine
Distraction Technology to Enhance the Experience for Children and Adolescents Receiving Outpatient Pediatric Infusion Care in the Maine Children's Cancer Program
Aaron Weiss, DO - Medical Director, Maine Children's Cancer' Program
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PROGRAM UPDATES
Innovation Cohort | Innovation Elective | Innovation Fund | Innovation Blender | Brewing Ideas Coffee Corner
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LAST CALL FOR APPLICATIONS!
Interprofessional Innovation in Education Fund Award
Up to $10,000 is available to support novel ideas that solve an unmet health care professional education need. Care team members are invited to submit innovative learning and development models (e.g., curriculum), processes or products.
Application Deadline
April 29, 2022 at 11:59pm EST
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Thank you! R6 Staff Support Pilot for NewGown
Thanks to the R6 unit for going above and beyond their busy days in order to provide vital information for NewGown, a re-designed hospital gown for Neuro patients and beyond! Sara Cox, CNRN, Neuroscience Patient Navigator at Maine Medical Center, is currently conducting a pilot on R6 of a newly re-designed hospital gown developed with the help and collaboration of the MaineHealth Innovation Center.
Patients who have an altered mental status and also are a high fall risk or have an altered mental status and are medically complex are trialing this new gown. Sara is collecting feedback from staff and data regarding metrics including functionality, comfort, patient outcomes, patient response, and ease of donning and doffing the gown.
R6 staff identifies patients, trials the gown and then submit their feedback in a RedCap survey for review. Thanks to this unit for going above and beyond their busy days in order to provide vital information for this project!
If this NewGown is shown to improve patient outcomes and staff satisfaction, they may become available for wider use. Click here to see a short video about the evolution of NewGown.
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Maine Medical Center’s Melissa Fairfield, RN, (left) Nursing Director of R6, and Lynne Keller, RN, (right) Clinical Nurse Educator of R6, model the latest NewGown prototypes. | |
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Congratulations! Dr. Vinny Seiverling Receives Tufts IDEAS Award
Congratulations to E. Vinny Seiverling, MD for receiving a Tufts University School of Medicine (TUSM) IDEAS award! This funding will be used to update the dermatology curriculum for the MS2 course as well as the dermoscopy training for TUSM and Maine Medical Center residents. Vinny developed the first eConsult order in 2019 for Dermatology at MaineHealth. To date, she and her colleagues at MMP Dermatology have completed over 950 eConsults. Vinny featured this innovative approach to telehealth at a MaineHealth Innovation Blender event in 2020 where she gained valuable connections and insights to help advance this novel solution, as well as additional funding to advance the project.
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CONNECT
Events
Save the Date!
The Spark: Celebrating Innovation at MaineHealth
June 8 | 3:30-5:00pm | Virtual
Come Brainstorm!
Innovation Blender: Activas Goes Under the Sheets to Innovate Neurotech
May 18 | 12:00-12:45pm | Register here.
Brewing Ideas Coffee Corner
1st + 3rd Tuesdays
May 3 & May 17 | 8:30-9:30am | Join here.
MaineHealth Innovation
Open Office Hours
Every other Friday, 12-1pm
Next sessions: May 6 + May 20 | Register here.
Intellectual Property Information Session
May 11 | 7:30-8:00am | Register here.
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EDUCATE
Learn + Discover
From SCORE Southern Maine:
Starting Your Own Business
May 3 | 5:00pm | Register here.
From New Ventures Maine:
Business Basics
Wednesdays, May 11 - 25 | 6:00 - 7:00pm
Register here.
FUND
Support Opportunities
New!
Interprofessional Innovation
in Education Fund Award
Application Deadline:
Apr. 29, 2022 | 11:59pm EST
Learn More + Apply
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