SPRINTing to Innovation: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's Strategic Approach to Discovering Its Untapped Innovation Potential.
Acad Med
; 96(4): 534-539, 2021 04 01.
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ABSTRACT
PROBLEM:
There is a clear and urgent need for health care innovation in the United States. Hospital employees routinely recognize pain points that affect care delivery and are in a unique position to propose innovative and practical solutions, yet leaders rarely solicit ideas for investment and development from frontline providers and staff, revealing an untapped resource with innovation potential.APPROACH:
To address these deficiencies, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia expanded its innovation infrastructure with the competition-based SPRINT program in 2015. All hospital employees are encouraged to apply with early-stage innovative ideas, and if selected, are provided with business, legal, technical, and scientific project management support to help accelerate their projects toward commercial viability. SPRINT was modeled around 4 core tenets (1) small, dynamic, and attentive project manager-led teams; (2) low barriers to entry; (3) emphasis on outreach; and (4) fostering innovators.OUTCOMES:
Over its first 4 cycles from 2015 to 2018, 271 innovative teams applied to the SPRINT program, which led to support for 30 projects (11% acceptance rate). About a quarter of the projects each year were submitted by physician-led teams (mean 23%), a third by nonphysician clinical providers (mean 33%), and almost half were submitted by employees without direct patient contact (mean 44%). Nurses have emerged as the largest applicant group. Eleven of the SPRINT-supported projects (37%) resulted in commercial endpoints. NEXTSTEPS:
SPRINT has proven to be an effective model for supporting institution-wide, employee-driven health care innovation, especially among frontline clinical and nonclinical personnel. Critical next steps for the program include a formal cost-benefit analysis and the earlier participation of technology transfer and intellectual property experts to improve the commercialization roadmap for many SPRINT projects.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Banco de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Innovación Organizacional
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Garantía de la Calidad de Atención de Salud
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Personal de Salud
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Difusión de Innovaciones
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Hospitales Pediátricos
Tipo de estudio:
Sysrev_observational_studies
Límite:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
País/Región como asunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Acad Med
Asunto de la revista:
EDUCACAO
Año:
2021
Tipo del documento:
Article