Founded in 2013, Brigham and Women’s iHub, an innovation organization inside of the hospital, has seen half a decade of technology advancements and cultural changes. This afternoon, panelists who once worked at the hub sat down for the center’s fifth anniversary to talk digital health, past and present.
Here are three major trends speakers predicted for the future:
Cluster and consolidation
With...
To run Brigham and Women's Hospitals's Innovation Hub, hospital executives have to balance a blue sky encouragement of ideas with enterprise IT oversight to make sure apps and devices are safe and secure, Brigham and Women's Chief Medical Innovation Officer Dr. Adam Landman said in a presentation at the mHealth and Telehealth World Congress in Boston today.
"What keeps me up at night is, I love...
Innovation seems to be slower to come to the mental health field than other areas of medicine, and it’s not just limited to digital health innovation. At a panel at the HxR event in Boston yesterday, a number of experts questioned why that is and shared some aspects of mobile mental health apps they’re developing.
“Over a 10-year period of time, $9.1 billion went into oncology, while 0.9 billion...
Brigham and Women's Hospital has partnered with seed fund Rock Health to test and possibly integrate technologies from companies in Rock Health's portfolio, according to a Boston Business Journal post.
The two organizations will launch the partnership this sumer and it is expected to last three years.
Brigham and Women’s Executive Director of Brigham Innovation Hub Lesley Solomon told Boston...
