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76 50 Hospitals With Innovation Programs | 2016 By Akanksha Jayanthi and Erin Dietsche Becker's Hospital Review is pleased to recognize the following 50 hospi- tals and health systems with innovation programs. e hospitals and health systems on this list are among those that have com- mitted to keeping up with — or getting ahead of — the pace of change in healthcare by forming dedicated centers and institutes for innovation. Research and development coming from these innovation programs range from the technological, including medical devices, diagnostics and mobile health platforms, to clinical workflows and process improvements. While some of these hospitals have a specific center dedicated to innova- tion and others have established commercialization arms and technolo- gy transfer offices, they all are addressing some of the biggest challenges facing patient care and care delivery. Note: is list was compiled through editorial research and consideration of nominations. is list is not an endorsement of included hospitals or affiliated healthcare providers. Organizations cannot pay for inclusion on this list. Hospitals are presented in alphabetical order. Akron (Ohio) Children's Hospital's Center for Patient Experience Innovation. e Center for Patient Experience Innovation at Akron Children's Hospital focuses on how positive healthcare experiences can transform clinical outcomes. e center is a hub for innovation support services and resources as well as a research initiative to facilitate idea generation, serve as a pilot site for new approaches and interventions and evaluate pilot impact. e Center for Patient Experience Innovation is housed within the hospital's Rebecca D. Considine's Research Institute. Stefan Agamanolis, PhD, is the center's director. Baylor Scott & White Health's Research Ventures (Dallas). Research Ventures, the commercialization unit of Baylor Scott & White Health, supports health system staff with inventions and discoveries. Staff are encouraged to submit ideas for medical devices, therapeutics, diagnos- tics, soware and research tools that are then evaluated for commercial potential. e health system handles all legal, marketing, development and contractual activities that go along with commercializing technolo- gies and inventors receive half of net royalties of the product. Physicians practicing in numerous specialties, including oncology, gynecology, gas- troenterology and orthopedics have submitted and produced innovative ideas through Research Ventures. Baystate Health's TechSpring (Springfield, Mass.). TechSpring is an in- novation center affiliated with Springfield, Mass.-based Baystate Health. Launched in 2014, TechSpring works with technology companies seek- ing to test and validate digital health solutions in an authentic healthcare environment. TechSpring offers four programs which focus on different elements of the design process. e center has innovation and strategic partners, including Dell, Medecision, Imprivata and Cerner. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center's Technology Ventures Office (Boston). e Technology Ventures Office at BIDMC seeks to translate research and innovation from the health system into products to bene- fit society. e office evaluates, patents, markets and licenses inventions from BIDMC faculty and distributes royalties. TVO has supported com- panies, collaborations and products. For example, TVO collaborated with Takeda Chemical Industries to develop therapies for widespread metabolic diseases like diabetes and obesity. Additional collaborations with other companies resulted in a company focused on cancer metabo- lism and a diagnostic test for preeclampsia. Boston Children's Hospital's Innovation & Digital Health Accelerator. is internal accelerator supports both innovations coming from mem- bers of the Boston Children's community as well as external startups and enterprises. Examples of innovations coming from IDHA include CrowdClinical, a web-based dashboard that collects tweets and posts on social media about healthcare and summarizes the information for the public audience in real-time. A further innovation is the hospital's part- nership with Grand Rounds, an employer-based solution that allows pa- tients to view their diagnosis and treatment plan online and streamlines communication with hospital specialists. IDHA partners include Cerner, Booz Allen Hamilton, Rock Health and Harvard Medical School's de- partment of biomedical informatics. Brigham and Women's Brigham Innovation Hub (Boston). e Brigham Innovation Hub, called the iHub, launched in September 2013 as a resource center for internal and external innovators. iHub has host- ed several hackathons, collaboration nights where digital health ex- perts share tips for success, and clinical innovation days full of sessions where innovators share ideas for transforming patient care. Residents at Brigham and Women's Hospital can also participate in an elective two- week rotation during which they provide clinical knowledge and insights with developers working on projects at iHub. Children's Health's Virtual Health and Innovation (Dallas). Children's Health Ventures is a new operating unit formed in 2015 at Children's Health that aims to invest and partner with companies, technologies and organizations on care delivery. e commercialization arm recently in- vested in Pieces Technologies, a predictive analytics company that helps deliver more timely care interventions. Michele Chulick serves as presi- dent of Children's Health Ventures. Children's Hospital Colorado's Center for Innovation (Aurora). e Center for Innovation at Children's Hospital Colorado supports inno- vators and entrepreneurs from ideation and concept vetting to incuba- tion and product and service launches. Faculty, staff and administrators at Children's Hospital Colorado are invited to work with experts in the Center for Innovation to assess the validity of their ideas. In addition to health technologies, diagnostics and medical devices, the center also welcomes ideas to change internal process, quality and safety improve- ments in the hospital. e center launched June 2016. Children's Hospital Los Angeles' Center for Innovation. Medical technology companies, pharmaceutical companies, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, philanthropists and social impact investors join forces at CHLA's Center for Innovation to develop, test and commercialize new products and services. Some of the technologies available for licensing or that are seeking investment include soware to generate specific dose recommendations for patients called BestDose and a micropacemaker that can be implanted in minimally invasive procedures using a catheter or cannula. e center also oversees a pediatric health accelerator using a $1.5 million grant from the Food and Drug Administration. Children's National Health System's Bear Institute (Washington, D.C.). Formed in 2013, e Bear Institute for Health Innovation is a collaboration between Children's National Health System and Kansas City, Mo.-based Cerner. e Bear Institute is housed within the main hospital campus where a multidisciplinary team helps manage IT services across the hospital and develops new technologies geared toward improving patient outcomes. e American Hospital Association awarded the Bear Institute the CHIME-AHA Transformational Leadership Award in September 2015, recognizing the team for developing and implementing transformational IT. Cleveland Clinic Innovations. In the 16 years since its founding, Cleve- land Clinic's commercialization arm has supported more than 3,400 in- ventions; issued more than 800 patents and 450 licenses; and produced