Authored by Mike Safran, Innovation Strategist Well-Blog powered by BCBSMA I was recently reminded of a line from an episode of Chef’s Table where the head chef decides to scrap the entire menu one night and create a new one. This confounds his sous chefs! All of the guests on…

Authored by Jacob DeBlecourt, Well-B Exhibit Associate & Field Reporter Last week we said goodbye to our first ever exhibit in the first floor exhibition space. We collaborated with Design Museum Boston to bring attention to a field of health care which sees rapid innovation that improves lives — prosthetics…

Authored by Jacob DeBlecourt, Well-B Exhibit Associate & Field Reporter So who is Elaine? When it comes to museum design, our own Innovation Exhibit Manager Elaine Mondy brings the heat — though being from New Mexico, she insists it’s a dry heat. Designing and managing exhibits from the ground up…

Authored by Jacob DeBlecourt, Well-B Exhibit Associate & Field Reporter So who is Marty? When not managing his work life with his new place in the suburbs, Marty can often be found curled up — literally. Marty is an active participant in the sport of curling, in which he aspires…

Authored by Kristina Ross, Team Well-B As a professional with more than eleven years of experience in a traditional office setting, the idea of innovationhas been at the core to my development but has had a fairly limited definition. Until recently, that is. Spending the last seven months with the…

Authored by Jacob DeBlecourt, Well-B Exhibit Associate & Field Reporter Did you know that around 44 million people rely on Medicare every year to get the basic health coverage they need? That’s a whopping 15% of the entire US population! And while Medicare provides coverage — and, most importantly, peace…

Authored by Nicole Harvey, Well-B Summer Fellow “Wow… jeans and a T-shirt… I wish I was in the innovation department,” the freshly-ironed co-worker admitted as we sat down for a meeting. A small remark that spoke volumes to the culture of clothing in the workplace. Clothing is, at its core…

Authored by Ruby Eisenbud, Innovation Summer Fellow I have always been a problem-solver. It makes sense today; I’m a mechanical engineering student. But it actually goes all the way back to my childhood. In elementary school, I kept a screwdriver, compass, and flashlight in my backpack and brought them with…

Authored by Alex Connor; Designer/Educator/Student/Weirdo From an outside perspective, did you ever expect designers to take a seat at the table in America’s health care reform? Before I turned twenty-one, I never remotely considered joining the health care industry. As an up-and-coming designer, hungry for problems to solve, I learned…