Inside CHIME: Seeking Voices of Innovation

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EdwardMarx 8.18.16 by Ed Marx, FCHIME, FHIMSS
Senior Vice President and CIO, New York City Health & Hospitals Corporation; Executive Vice President, the Advisory Board

CHIME member Ed Marx is collecting stories of innovation from across the field for a new book. The aim is to help others leverage innovation to fulfill the promise of healthcare information technology in enabling superior business and clinical outcomes.

We use the word “innovation” a lot these days in healthcare. But what does it really mean and how is innovation driving change across our organizations? More importantly, can we identify those pockets of innovation and spread them across the industry?

Yes, we can! And you can help. I have been asked to serve as the editor for a practical book on innovation in healthcare. In order for the book to be meaningful, I want to share your real-world stories.

Sponsored by HIMSS, Voices of Innovation will be a collection of essays written by real-world innovators like you. Everyone talks innovation, few do it. Granted, we can point to random examples of innovation inside of healthcare information technology, but few repeatable processes that make innovation more routine than random. This book will be loaded with examples and techniques from successful innovators such as yourself so that others might replicate your experience in their organization. Voices will answer questions like — Where do you begin with innovation and make it real in your profession and organization? How do you create and sustain a culture of innovation? What are the best practices you can refine and embed as part of your organizations DNA? What are the potential outcomes for robust healthcare transformation? What have pioneers accomplished? What organizations are leading with innovation?

These brief essays (3,000 words or less) will be personalized: “Here’s how our organization thinks about innovation…”, “I’m a physician and here’s how I approach innovation and empower my team to do the same…”, “Here is how we engage patients directly…”, “Here is how we design systems with innovation at the center….”

Voices brings together these stories and the repeatable techniques for innovation. Fused together, the book will help others leverage innovation to help fulfill the promise of healthcare information technology in enabling superior business and clinical outcomes.

Voices will be divided into multiple sections. Sections will leverage the HIMSS Innovation Pathways work previously developed, including:

  • Voices of Innovation Introduction/Innovation Pathways Review (Marx)
  • Communicate and Eliminate Innovation Barriers
  • Stress Simplicity in Innovation
  • Recognize and Reward Innovation
  • Co-create Innovation Solutions
  • Collaborate and Listen for Innovation
  • Create Innovation Roadmaps
  • Leverage People with IT
  • Blend Cultures to Enable Innovation
  • Voices of Innovation Closing (Marx)

If you want to be part of this transformation to lead healthcare innovation, please contact me at [email protected]. I will send you the application and details on the process for submission. Thanks for your help!

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