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Framework for Innovation in Healthcare: Navigating the Complex Journey
EIT Health supports healthcare innovators throughout their journey, from identifying critical unmet needs to overcoming the challenges of scaling innovative solutions that enhance patient care. The innovation process is often a learnable and teachable experience, yet many teams struggle with it without proper guidance. This can result in flures or setbacks even for promising ideas due to inefficient navigation through the Valley-of-Death. Thankfully, we are now able to assist teams by leveraging the collective experiences of previous healthcare innovators through a specialized framework developed in collaboration with CIMIT, a well-established expert in this field.
The Healthcare Innovation Cycle Framework serves as a comprehensive roadmap that guides and profiles progress for healthcare innovations across different stages from addressing unmet medical needs to becoming standards of care. It builds on the recognized Technology Readiness Level TRL , tlored specifically for the unique challenges within healthcare innovation with ten maturity levels spread across four key domns: technology, clinical practice, regulation, and marketbusiness.
The framework acts as a structured checklist that outlines essential deliverables at each intersection point between maturity levels and domns. In essence, it's like a comprehensive guide to ensure that no critical aspect is overlooked in the development of healthcare innovations. The 10-maturity levels are consistent across all innovation types, but the specific core set of required deliverables varies by solution type.
To date, EIT Health and CIMIT have collaborated to define and refine this framework for MedTech products, Digital Health solutions, Biomarker Diagnostics tools, and BioTech innovations. The m is to provide a clear path that de-risks projects by helping teams address not only the technology aspect but also other crucial elements vital to healthcare innovation.
The benefits of utilizing the Healthcare Innovation Cycle Framework are multifaceted:
Risk Mitigation: It enables tea visualize potential risks and take preemptive measures, thus reducing flures at critical stages.
Expert Guidance Alignment: Mentors and experts can quickly identify key areas needing attention without needing detled technical understanding.
Efficient Reporting: It streamlines communication and reporting among all stakeholders involved in the innovation process.
Enhanced Efficiency: A common framework ensures that time is spent efficiently across healthcare innovation ecosystems, reducing redundancy.
Learning Pathway: It provides a systematic approach for tea learn from previous experiences and improve their future projects.
Who can benefit from this Framework:
StartupsInnovation Projects: Teams can apply best practices and gn insights by learning it right the first time around.
Businesses BAs, VCs, CVCs, FOs: They can leverage the framework to refine their strategies, enhance advisory processes, and track progress of their portfolio companies efficiently.
Acceleration and Incubation Programs: These programs can benefit by optimizing mentorship efforts and assessment criteria using a standardized approach key milestones.
Research Technology Organizations RTOs, Transfer of Technology Organizations TTOs: Such organizations can use the framework to support innovators effectively, mitigate risks in the Valley-of-Death phase, and foster more impactful innovations.
CIMIT, based at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, a 20+ year-old consortium med at accelerating innovation and driving the discovery, development, and implementation of innovative healthcare technologies. EIT Health, supported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology EIT, is a network of leading innovators from over 280 organizations across Europe focused on delivering new solutions to improve citizens' health and longevity.
Both CIMIT and EIT Health have collaborated closely in developing this framework to ensure its effectiveness and applicability across diverse healthcare innovation landscapes, combining insights and methodologies from both organizations.
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