Accelerating Innovation in Health IT

Accelerating Digital Health Innovation

There has recently been a dramatic increase in demand for healthcare innovation. In this thesis we present a framework for analyzing a digital health innovation ecosystem in the US. Our framework consists of four key activities: innovation generation, entrepreneurial team formation, early company incubation, and validation of the core innovation. Throughout the paper we analyze the existing lit...

Global Health IT Policies Accelerating Healthcare Transformation

1 Nations around the globe have shown encouraging progress that demonstrates how the effective use of ICT in healthcare can improve access to and quality of care, reduce costs, and improve satisfaction among both patients and providers. INTRODUCTION Information and communications technology (ICT) has transformed nearly every aspect of modern life, from banking to travel to commerce. The healthc...

Accelerating Innovation in the Creation of Biovalue

The field of regenerative medicine (RM) has considerable therapeutic promise that is proving difficult to realize. As a result, governments have supported the establishment of intermediary agencies to “accelerate” innovation. This article examines in detail one such agency, the United Kingdom’s Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult (CGTC). We describe CGTC’s role as an accelerator agency and its value...

Accelerating Sap: Innovation in Test Automation

Enterprises fight a constant battle against backlog: competitive and market pressures drive deadlines to deliver more functionality in more locations for more products and services. While a crucial advantage of the SAP architecture is that configuration changes can be made easily to expose or modify capabilities quickly, how do you best avoid unintended consequences when it comes to changes in ...

Accelerating Energy Innovation: Insights from Multiple Sectors