Healthcare organizations are an extremely challenging and complex environment for innovation. But the need for them to innovate has never been more intense — whether in response to new entrants, changing customer behaviors, cost pressures, or shifting reimbursement paradigms.
Can you devote more of your organization’s resources and time to innovation? Move projects from pilot to roll-out faster? Involve constituencies that haven’t been traditionally been considered innovators? Create new incentives and reduce bureaucratic hurdles?
Our latest in-depth research report is geared to helping you answer all those questions in the affirmative. We explore how companies like CVS, Pfizer, Kaiser Permanente, Medtronic, Beckman Coulter, Merck, Cardinal Health, Bayer, AstraZeneca, Johns Hopkins, UnitedHealth Group, Johnson & Johnson, and others have set up new innovation initiatives that are delivering tangible results.
- Patient/consumer frustrations with healthcare
- Biggest barriers to innovation in healthcare organizations
- The players most likely to disrupt or impact healthcare over the coming decade
It also includes a diagram and questions to ask to help your organization improve how you source ideas, set up pilot tests, and scale what works. See the complete table of contents below.
This report is underwritten by The Nason Group, one of InnoLead’s strategic partners, and includes advice from Founder & CEO Shawn Nason on “The Role of Humanization in Disruption: Debunking Three Critical Myths.”
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Table of Contents
Pharmaceuticals
Fostering a New Culture of Innovation: What Pfizer has Learned 9
Open Innovation at $25 Billion AstraZeneca: What We’ve Learned So Far 15
Examining Ties Between Business Units and J&J’s Innovation Centers 18
How Bayer is Cultivating an Ecosystem of Consumer Health Startups 21
Merck Exec’s Advice on Fostering Innovation in a Global Business 24
How Express Scripts is Using Data to Predict Healthcare Problems 28
Inside J&J’s New Initiative to ‘Intercept’ Diseases 30
Medical Devices & Instruments
Medtronic: Working Closely with Business Units and Going Global 34
Letting the Voice of the Customer Drive Innovation at Beckman Coulter 37
Hospital Systems
Startups, Stat! How Johns Hopkins is Turning Doctors into Entrepreneurs 43
What We Learned Running our Hospital’s First Hackathon 47
Kaiser Permanente is Leveraging Digital Tools to Put the Consumer First 49
Putting Emerging Tech to the Test in a 12,000-Employee Hospital System 55
So You’re Trying to Innovate in a Heavily Regulated Industry… 58
Insurance
Advice from Cambia Health’s Chief Innovation Officer 62
Anthem’s Model for Thinking About Innovation Structures, Investment, Timeframes 66
Learning to Love Innovation Day at UnitedHealth Group 68
Retail, Distribution & Data
Inside the Customer-Focused Fuse Lab at Cardinal Health 71
Why UnitedHealth and the Mayo Clinic Created Optum Labs 74
How the CVS Digital Lab Proves Value and Collaborates with Business Units 77
Advice from our Sponsor, Nason Group
The Role Of Humanization In Disruption: Debunking Three Critical Myths 53
