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79 technologies to turn into startups. Since 1987 the office has played a part in creating 11 affiliated companies that have raised more than $300 million. Some of SIV's partner companies include Abbvie, Amgen and Pfizer. Mercy Medical Center's Mercy Innovation Center (Des Moines, Iowa). Established in 2014, Mercy Innovation Center offers those in the Mercy system resources and expertise to redesign care delivery. Such re- sources include observation opportunities; creative spaces for ideation; engineering services for prototyping; project piloting; and business plan development, among others. e innovation center is based at Mercy Medical Center-Des Moines, and Sam Schone serves as its director. Metro Health Innovation Center (Wyoming, Mich.). Metro Health employees can make use of the Innovation Center to meet and work on projects for the health system. ere are four departments within the Innovation Center providing support services to the hospital and physi- cian offices: the physician hospital organization; information technolo- gy; security and privacy; and professional billing and pre-arrival. Some of the innovation projects at Metro Health include sustainable healthcare and an amputation prevention program that offers a different treatment approach that could save a patient's limb. Mills-Peninsula Health Services Center for Innovation & Research (Burlingame, Calif.). Part of Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health, the Mills-Peninsula Center for Innovation and Research seeks to be a "living laboratory" for new care models, technologies, therapeutic prod- ucts, services and treatments. It serves as the home for clinical research; a simulation center for training and piloting technologies; and an incuba- tor for biotech partners and startups. e center highlights its proximity to Silicon Valley and San Francisco's biotech industries as a significant opportunity to innovate. Mission Health System's Mission Center for Innovation (Asheville, N.C.). e Mission Center for Innovation offers innovators business planning and feasibility analyses, opportunities to connect with appro- priate partners and, in some cases, funding. e center supports inno- vation in multiple forms, from care delivery to technological develop- ments. Additionally, the Center for Innovation partners with Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, N.C., to offer a graduate certificate in healthcare innovation management. Mount Sinai Innovation Partners (New York City). Mount Sinai Inno- vation Partners is the technology transfer office for the Icahn School of Medicine and Mount Sinai Health System. In 2015, the office received 117 technology disclosures, engaged 549 inventors and filed 205 patents. MSIP's internal business unit, Blue Mountain Technologies, oversees the commercial partnerships to bring inventions to market. MSIP also hosts the monthly Intellectual Property and Commercialization Speak- er Series, bringing leaders of law firms, venture firms, startups, research institutions and healthcare organizations to discuss the technology de- velopment landscape. Nationwide Children's Hospital's Center for Innovation in Pediatric Practice (Columbus, Ohio). Researchers in the Center for Innovation in Pediatric Practice seek to develop methods to better deliver health services to children and their families. e center partnered with the hospital's behav- ioral health services department to launch the Center for Suicide Prevention and Research to address the growing problem of suicide in youth in central Ohio. e Center for Innovation is part of the hospital's Research Institute, which has a technology commercialization office. NewYork-Presbyterian Hospitals' NYP Innovation Center. Since launching in 2014, NewYork-Presbyterian's Innovation Center has host- ed a number of events, hackathons and challenges to harness its com- munity's innovative and entrepreneurial spirit. NYP held a pediatric app challenge in this spring, and in summer 2015 it held a challenge to create tools to engage patients and facilitate communication between provid- ers. Some of the center's outside partners include healthcare innovation lab HITLAB, data service NavHealth and the New York Digital Health Accelerator. NorthShore University HealthSystem's Grainger Center for Simula- tion and Innovation (Evanston, Ill.). e Grainger Center for Simula- tion and Innovation is housed in a 13,000-square-foot facility at North- Shore Evanston Hospital. e center offers collaborative healthcare education, training and research opportunities through two programs: a Medical Simulation Program and a Surgical Stimulation Program. e former is focused on improving care and reducing costs through inno- vating medical scenarios, and the latter is focused on surgeons testing and training new techniques and procedures. As a teaching affiliate of University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, students train at GCSI during their emergency medicine core rotation. Ochsner Health System's innovationOchsner (New Orleans). Al- though innovationOchsner, Ochsner Health System's innovative "think tank," launched in March 2015, the health system opened its first O Bar — a retail-esque space in Ochsner's Center for Primary Care and Well- ness where patients can ask questions about wearable technology devices and learn about and test healthcare apps — in July 2014. e system has a long history with innovation on the provider side, too: In 2014 it became the first in the country to integrate its Epic EHR with Apple HealthKit. When it launched innovationOchsner, the system announced a three- year health innovation challenge in collaboration with GE Healthcare that offers a $25,000 prize pool for ideas to help solve some of healthcare's most pressing problems. Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center's IDEA Studio for Healthcare and Design (Columbus). e IDEA Studio for Health- care and Design's mission is to redefine the healthcare user experience through innovation, design thinking and application of integrated solu- tions. e studio was formed in 2013 and includes a commercialization arm. e studio sponsors events, such as Big IDEAs for Health, a fo- rum for the Ohio State community and greater Columbus community to pitch healthcare invention or service concepts and receive feedback from notable local business leaders and healthcare experts. Clay Marsh, MD, serves as the studio's executive director. OSF HealthCare's OSF Innovation (Peoria, Ill.). A new program, OSF Innovation at OSF HealthCare launched in June. e program is led by a multidisciplinary team of nine leaders specializing in health system op- erations, organizational change, performance improvement, finance, an- alytics, telehealth and simulation. e health system also partnered with the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria to form Jump Simulation, a simulation and education center for training, education and innovation for medical students, in 2013. is year in September, OSF HealthCare launched the OSF Simulation Stage in partnership with Chicago-based health startup incubator MATTER as a place to test ear- ly-stage healthcare solutions. Parkview Health's Mirro Center for Research and Innovation (Fort Wayne, Ind.). e Mirro Center for Research and Innovation is comprised of a research center that hosts studies, a dedicated innovation space for scientists, entrepreneurs and organizations that want to transform health- care delivery, and advanced simulation labs and classrooms for education and training. e $20 million, 82,000-square-foot center opened on the Parkview Regional Medical Center campus in spring of 2015. In May, the center partnered with Parkview Physicians Group-Cardiology to launch an interventional study regarding how patient engagement can affect care for patients with congestive heart failure. Penn Medicine Center for Health Care Innovation (Philadelphia). Unique to this innovation center is its Penn Social Media and Health Innovation lab that conducts research focused on the intersection of so- cial media, mobile technology and health. For example, the Penn Heart Study seeks to understand how to leverage Twitter to fight heart disease.