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Article My Advice: Overcoming the Challenges to Innovation in Regulated Industries
June 26, 2024
In any highly-regulated industry, well-intentioned rules can often hinder innovators from advancing great ideas. How do you overcome that? Here's advice from an innovator at AstraZeneca.
Article Inside a $5B Health System’s ‘AlphaLab’: Structure, Priorities, Metrics and More
June 25, 2024 | By Scott Cohen
We talk with Dr. Jeffrey Cohen, Chief Physician Executive for Community Health and Innovation at Pittsburgh-based Allegheny Health Network, a $5 billion medical system that operates 14 hospitals and more than 200 primary- and specialty-care practices.
Resource Pfizer Policy Position on AI
April 10, 2024
$58 billion pharma company Pfizer published a two-page “policy paper” that provided some greater detail than the three “Responsible AI Principles” that is has communicated publicly. The policy paper outlines the company’s position on AI development, use, regulation, governance, transparency, privacy, training, and other matters.
Resource Cigna Approach to Ethical AI
April 10, 2024
While not a policy, per se, InnoLead members might be interested in seeing Cigna’s publicly-posted “approach” to ethical AI. The brief statement from the $195 billion healthcare insurer disclosed that is has an AI Center of Enablement that governs AI “guardrails, systemic controls and processes” and ensures the responsible use...
Resource UnitedHealth Group Responsible AI Policy
April 10, 2024
The $371 billion healthcare giant UHG included a new “responsible AI” policy in its 2022 sustainability report. The AI policy, while just a simple one-pager, includes details on governance, an internal ML Review Board, and outlined key components, and referenced an internal “Responsible Use of AI” program that was established...
Resource Job Description: Director, AI Innovation Lab, Novartis
April 8, 2024
From the description: ". In this role, you will join a highly innovative and entrepreneurial group with a focus on accelerating AI Use Cases in the US. With a deep expertise in AI, large language models (LLM), and natural language processing (NLP) you will help shape our AI Innovation Strategy...
Article How Syneos Health is Building AI Solutions for Clinical Trials
March 25, 2024 | By Daniel Pereira
Right now, says Ilya Vedrashko, Vice President of AI Products, the focus when it comes to creating and deploying new AI software "is on creating the solutions for Syneos [employees], and upgrading a lot of the internal processes with the solutions." Eventually, the company may offer some of the software...
Article Inside J&J’s Approach to New Company Creation
February 23, 2024 | By Evan Schwartz and Hadley Thompson
The healthcare giant's approach to new venture creation, in partnership with outside venture capital firms, got rolling in 2021. We talk with Sanjay Mistry, VP of Venture Investments and New Company Creation...
Resource Pharmaceutical Industry Innovation
January 30, 2024
Notes from a January 2024 InnoLead members' meeting on innovation in pharma. Includes data from surveys conducted during the meeting.
Article Nihon Kohden Innovation Center CEO on the ‘Negative Stage Gate’ Process
August 21, 2023 | By Meghan Hall
As part of our latest research report, Building a Productive Innovation Portfolio, we spoke with Weisner, Nihon Kohden Innovation Center's President and CEO, to get his advice on engaging the necessary stakeholders for innovation activities, hear about what he calls "the negative stage gate system," and understand how his team's...
Article What is the ‘Love Metric’? Advocate Health’s VP of Enterprise Innovation Explains
August 7, 2023 | By Hadley Thompson, Meghan Hall
Todd Dunn, VP of Enterprise Innovation for Advocate Health, dives deep on standing up an innovation program while including perspectives from other business units; what he calls the 'love metric'; and more as part of an interview for our new research report, Building a Productive Portfolio.
Video Best Buy Health President on Artificial Intelligence in Health Care
June 22, 2023 | By Hadley Thompson
Deborah DiSanzo, President of Best Buy Health, shares her thoughts on how artificial intelligence will affect patients and healthcare professionals; gives commentary on ChatGPT; and more.
Article How AI and Decentralized Clinical Trials are Changing Biopharma
March 3, 2022 | By Scott Kirsner
“As humans, we have limitations in being able to integrate and synthesize and look at data,” says venture capitalist John Orloff, formerly Global Head of R&D at Alexion Pharmaceuticals. “I think AI and machine learning technology will allow us to make better decisions and choices, and give us new insights...
Article How 3M Reorganized R&D — and How the Company Tracks R&D Impact
February 16, 2022
In early 2020, 3M decentralized its operating model to give the presidents of its four business groups more autonomy over R&D. We talk to SVP Cordell Hardy about how it started, and how it’s going.
Article Member Spotlight: Claire Johnsen, Hallmark Care Homes & Savista Developments
February 11, 2022 | By Kate Katz
Claire Johnsen is Head of Innovation of Hallmark Care Homes and Savista Developments, a family-run company that operates 19 eldercare facilities in the UK. We spoke with Johnsen as part of our IL Member Spotlight series, which profiles our members.
Article How Pharma Distributor AmerisourceBergen Prioritizes and Pilots Emerging Tech
December 21, 2021 | By Alex Slawsby
One key is to success with emerging tech is working closely with customers, says SVP of Strategy and Innovation Jason Dinger: “Sometimes, we identify hidden value where a customer sees a way to deploy a technology that we didn’t see.”
Article Inside athenahealth’s Interactive Telehealth Dashboard
August 24, 2021 | By Collin Robisheaux
athenahealth’s Vice President of Research and Editorial Strategy shares why her team created an interactive telehealth dashboard that helps to collect and analyze consumer insights…
Article Why CVS Created a Dedicated Venture Fund
August 18, 2021 | By Kaitlin Milliken
During the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare providers around the globe sought digital solutions, and patients sought at-home options for what would have been in-person visits. Vijay Patel, Partner & Co-founder of CVS Health Ventures and Senior Director of Business Development of CVS Health Digital health and virtual care are two areas...
Article How the Pandemic Accelerated Digital Adoption in Healthcare
June 9, 2021 | By Collin Robisheaux
During a panel at the World Medical Innovation Forum, leaders from Bayer AG, Novartis Gene Therapy, and GE Healthcare shared how pandemic innovation has allowed the healthcare industry to make strides.
Article Four Tips on How R&D Can Work Better with Design
May 28, 2021 | By Lilly Milman
David Dombrowski of pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) considers being a translator between designers and innovators one of his main responsibilities. He shares four tips for innovators.