BIF Speak - Healthcare
New BIF Project: Introducing the Nursing Home of the Future
In case you missed it, the Business Innovation Factory is partnering with the Tockwotton Home, Quality Partners of Rhode Island and the MIT AgeLab to create a real-world laboratory for developing and testing new solutions, products and models for improving elderly care. Leveraging the BIF Experience Lab platform, the "Nursing Home of the Future" will create a platform for innovators and industry partners to transform current approaches to elderly care in assisted living and nursing care facilities.
Charting an Innovation Direction...The Eli Lilly Way
Lois Kelly of BeeLine Labs wrote recently about a conference she attended at Columbia University where Mark Kershisnik, the executive director of Eli Lilly's market research and US marketing services, spoke about his company’s innovation mission. Kershisnik said that Lilly’s sustainable success is rooted in a shared, common purpose that everyone in the global company is passionate about:
The MinuteClinic Disruption: Classic story in the 21st century
The Boston Herald ran a story over the weekend about Rhode Island-based CVS’s plans to locate low-cost health care clinics in retail stores in Boston. I'm sure CVS knew they were in for a fight considering the lengths many Rhode Island primary-care physicians have taken to block their efforts to do the same here in our state.
Matt Cottam: An Actor Prepares
by Brian Jepson
Matt Cottam is an innovator who I've been crossing paths with on and off recently, but who I'm only meeting for the first time today at BIF-3. He and I first got to know each other when I learned he's a big fan of a gadget that's near and dear to my heart. Matt is an Adjunct Professor of Industrial Design at RISD, but I think of him as a Physical Computing pioneer, someone who is making devices smarter, more fun to interact with, and easier for people to build on their own...
Eyes on the Prize: Creating the Trauma Bay of the Future
Someone made a passing – albeit complimentary – comment to me at lunch yesterday saying, “Oh, you’re with BIF - you guys hold such great events.” OK, it’s true, we do hold great events. But the meat of BIF…the stuff that keeps us going…can be found in our Experience Laboratories. With so many eyeballs on us because of the summit next week. I thought I would take the time to share one of the projects under development in our Patient Lab…
Alexander Tsiaras, understanding the human body through novel understandable means by Adrian Chernoff
Wearing jeans, a suit coat, ...he likes things equally dramatic.
His breakthrough in thinking was to see into the body and not be fixed on the surface of the body. To get there he started learning programming languages to create 3-D spaces in the body, to see more into the body.
Setting our sights on the Nursing Home of the Future
With the current elder care system in peril and millions of babyboomers on their way to old age, the pressure is on to fundamentally redesign our country’s approach to elder care. The Business Innovation Factory’s Nursing Home of the Future (NHoF) initiative set out earlier this year to build a platform for experimentation where partners can design and test new ideas for improving elder care in a working nursing home / assisted living facility. It's been an amazing journey...
Video: BIF Advisor Clay Christensen on Rearchitecting Healthcare and Education
The ability of technology to “disrupt” long-established business practices—dramatically changing the landscape of industries by increasing access, cutting costs, and revolutionizing delivery—has long been accepted and adopted by businesses large and small. Unfortunately, BIF research advisor Clayton Christensen has observed these radical, innovation-driven transformations have been largely absent in the education and health industries, perhaps the two most important areas of everyday life. (And certainly the areas most in need of deep change.)
This clip, from Christensen's appearance at our BIF-3 Collaborative Innovation Summit, is a real gem. Recorded just prior to the publication of his latest books, Disrupting Class and The Innovator’s Prescription, Christensen addresses how new technology can upend familiar institutions and fundamentally alter the way schooling and health care are delivered.
Elder Experience Lab Update: A New View of the Personal Care Experience
Earlier this winter BIF’s Elder Experience Lab team set out to better understand the experience of personal care for elders. In Phase I, our design observations revealed that personal care routines were especially challenging for even the most able elders, and that the experience needs to be fully redesigned.
Elder Experience Lab Takes on Challenges, Opportunities in Medication Management
The Elder Experience Lab team has created "modules" of activity in the lab devoted to areas of the elder experience most deeply in need of new solutions. The team recently launched a Medication Management module to better understand how elders manage their medications and begin to design and develop new solutions that make the process work and feel better for elders and those that support them.
Elder Experience Lab Update: Innovation in Medication Management Sorely Needed
Soon after BIF launched the Nursing Home of the Future (NHoF) laboratory, medication (and the management of that medication) clearly emerged as a part of the elder experience that has a big impact on quality of life.
Managing medications can be difficult and confusing for everyone and a great deal of focus has been placed on developing products and systems that help people take the right medicines, at the right time and in the right way. We also know that people with especially complicated medication regimes have come up with thousands of ways to manage medication—from novel ways to store and take their meds to excel spreadsheets and logbooks that bring order to an otherwise confusing routine. Helping elders and aging people manage medications is an important part of helping people maximize the effectiveness of drug therapies and minimize the risks of side effects.
Our work in the NHoF lab has shown us that there is room for improvement in the medication management arena.
Join Us in the Elder Experience Lab Online
Please join the Business Innovation Factory’s Elder Experience Lab online forum. We just launched the forum a few days ago and we would love to hear from you. The Lab’s on-line forum offers opportunities for the community to discuss lab activities, participate in specific activities and participate in guided discussions. We invite you to get involved and share your ideas.
Elder Experience Lab Explores Opportunity for Multi-Partner Collaboration
The Business Innovation Factory is currently working with partners to coordinate a multi-partner collaboration in the BIF Elder Experience Lab. We believe that this unique collaborative engagement will enhance innovation in elder care and R&D efforts and uncover new revenue generating opportunities for developing transformative solutions that better meet the needs of elders aging-in-place, a market segment that will rapidly increase as baby boomers age and communities replace institution-based elder care with new community-based solutions that enable more elders to age at home.
BIF Executive Director Melissa Withers at TEDX
BIF executive director Melissa Withers recently gave a talk about the BIF Elder Experience Lab at the the inaugural TEDxBoston event. In this video, Melissa reveals insights into how seniors prefer to interact with caregivers, utilize private and shared spaces, care for body and mind, and ultimately, what she thinks the elder experience can (and should) look like.
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