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HealthCare Cluster Overview

The Council’s HealthCare Idea Exchange comes together to examine how technology can contribute to improving quality and efficiencies in healthcare delivery through the development and implementation of emerging technologies. Participants come from payer and provider organizations, academic institutions, technology and service partners, regulators, and others.

The HealthCare Advisory Board meets on a regular basis and is open to member executives with direct experience/expertise in the healthcare industry. Each year, the group organizes a couple public breakfast briefings and a half dozen private member-only meetings where industry experts can build relationships and discuss the latest trends.These sessions provide valuable insight into the minds of technology buyers at the region’s leading healthcare organizations.

The barriers to delivering and adopting innovations in real-world health care settings are significant. Clinical environments are commonly demanding, fast-paced, and complex. That type of setting creates many challenges to innovation, including: simply finding the time and mental space to envision future needs; establishing partnerships with industry and academia; preserving momentum; and experimenting with potential innovations while maintaining day-to-day operations.

Three "of-the-future" learning laboratories will be featured in this event -- the MGH Operating Room of the Future, the BIDMC Emergency Room of the Future, and the MGH Ambulatory Practice of the Future. Clinicians from each setting will describe the clinical challenges of the environment. Industry colleagues will then describe emerging solutions that are driven by the needs of the user community. A lively, interactive discussion with audience participation will follow.

Upcoming HealthCare Cluster Events:

June 5, 2008: MassTLC HealthCare/IT Summit: Placing Bets: Top IT Vendors’ Healthcare Visions and Investments

 

Recent HealthCare Cluster Lunch and Learns:

March 5, 2008: Patient, Heal Thyself: How to Succeed with Online Consumer Health Sites

For more informationa about the Cluster, please contact Ian McGuinness, ian@masstlc.org

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