How The Co-Lab Cultivates Collaborative Healthcare Innovation
Connecting Partners with Subject Matter Experts
Health industry executives have traditionally blamed the industry’s complexity for the lack of innovation in health care. “It’s a defense that health care has used for why we haven’t created the kinds of improvements or solutions in information technologies that you see in other industries, like airlines and banking,” said Gary Gottlieb, CEO of Partners in Health, in a recent CNBC article. This doesn’t have to be the case — multi-institutional collaboration is key to sourcing and scaling innovation in health.
Through effective partnerships, engagement and coordinated deployment of resources, multi-institutional collaboration can have a positive impact on healthcare innovation. In collaboration with Not Impossible Labs, the Mount Sinai’s Abilities Research Center (ARC), led by Director of Rehabilitation Innovation David F. Putrino, PT, PhD, helped a man with ALS who had never used a computer before in his life, having been diagnosed prior to mobile computing becoming mainstream, autonomously communicate with his wife by using state of the art technology. Much like this positive example of a successful collaboration, it is our intention to connect more partners to subject matter experts to make even greater advances in health.
The Mount Sinai Co-Lab is an open innovation program designed to find solutions to healthcare challenges that, ultimately, have the potential to impact health globally. One of the many ways we increase and cultivate collaborative innovation amongst internal and external partners is through an internal Navigator. Participating Co-Lab members are matched with a Navigator who acts as a connector across the Mount Sinai Health System. The Co-Lab fosters long-term partnerships with Mount Sinai’s forward-thinking leadership, faculty, and students. Internal partners include Mount Sinai Innovation Partners, Mount Sinai Health Partners, SinaInnovation, Lab100, Sinai AppLab, and Scientific Computing to name a few.
The Co-Lab is bringing structure to accelerate tangible outcomes by connecting Mount Sinai’s subject matter experts with our commercial and non-commercial partners. Whether developing new healthcare products and services or optimizing employee health, companies across sectors are making massive investments in healthcare, and the Co-Lab leverages the breadth of Mount Sinai to help our partners navigate this important and expensive space. that want to exchange knowledge with the scientific community to promote change beyond their own organization.
Health industry executives and those considering entering the space can no longer rely on complexity as being the significant barrier to entry. By aligning values, understanding stakeholder perspectives, providing an intermediary in the Navigator, and using data all efforts can be directed toward collective results.
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The Mount Sinai Co-Lab is an open innovation program designed to find solutions to healthcare challenges that have the potential to impact health globally. Solving tomorrow’s healthcare challenges requires today’s preeminent organizations to interface with healthcare systems in ways that they haven’t needed to in the past. The Co-Lab fosters long-term partnership between preeminent organizations and Mount Sinai’s forward-thinking leadership, faculty, and students. Participating organizations are matched with a navigator, a Connector-In-Residence across the Mount Sinai Health System that helps hone in on nodes of value and activate the right Mount Sinai resources to optimize partnership.
