1. Practical Healthcare Innovation  (and the rapid development and implementation of an Innovation Center)
Julie Reisetter, VP, Innovation

2. UCHealth CARE Innovation Center (est. 2016)
Bring together experts in clinical care delivery, informatics, analytics and implementation science to partner with industry to create innovative solutions to modern healthcare challenges
Hub for developing, testing, and implementing healthcare innovations
Springboard for launching process improvements and products, and bringing them to market in order to improve healthcare delivery
What’s the vision
Dr. Richard Zane
Chief Innovation Officer
Co-Founder, CARE
Innovation Center
Steve Hess
Chief Information Officer
Dr. Jennifer Wiler
Executive Director and
Co-Founder, CARE
Innovation Center
Julie Reisetter, MS, RN
VP, Innovation

3. UCHealth Innovation Portfolio
Take inventory
of your strengths
Co-develop and/or test care innovations
Clinical validation
Evaluate scientific/market potential
Consumer and clinician usability assessment
Subject Matter Experts, technical, business, research, capital resources
EPIC implementation across entire enterprise
Startup company mentorship
Entrepreneur in Residence
Take Inventory
of your strengths
Oh, and those
gaps…

4. Frequently encountered challenges to digital health partnerships
Limited access to Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and care teams
Lack of dedicated Project Management staff
Lack of institutional clinical capacity for additional responsibilities
Lack of access to broader patient populations
Lack of institutional support for more than pilots
Tick-tock, tick-tock…
Check the challenges off the list
Develop a
strategy and
focus

5. What would make us attractive for partnerships?
World Class Living Laboratory
Rapid adoption
Denver Ranked #1 Best Place to Live
Product development and testing “shoulder to shoulder” with clinicians
Colorado Digital Health Boom
Connect with the innovators in your community and beyond

6. High Priority Focus Areas
Develop a
strategy and
focus
Wayfinding
Wearable devices
Virtual Reality
Condition-specific digital therapies
Conversational AI
Virtual Care
Data science embedded in
IT systems
Remote surveillance
Simplifying the external
patient story
EHR embedded pathways

7. Sourcing Opportunities Vetting Ideas and Opportunities
Put a process and structure in place
High Level Partnership Process
Sourcing Opportunities
Vetting Ideas and Opportunities
Iterate and Implement
Clinically Validate
Evaluate
Scale

8. Innovation Advisory Council
Company provided feedback and dismissed
Find the innovators
and cultivate the
ecosystem
COMPANY PITCH
Solves a high priority problem
Leadership team strength
Technical fit
Co-Development opportunity
Resource requirement
Jen
Potential Partner
Move to Collaboration Assessment
YES
Diligence -> terms negotiation -> Innovation Steering Committee

9. CARE Innovation Portfolio
Over 260 local, national and international
companies have sought partnerships with
UCHealth
Only the most promising technologies,
developed by motivated teams committed
to our vision of health innovation, make it
through our pipeline.
That means saying no – a lot!
Measure it!

13. Takeaways What’s the vision
Take inventory of your organizational strengths (and how will you address the gaps)
Develop a strategy and focus
Connect with the innovators within your organization, your community and beyond to cultivate the ecosystem
Put a process and structure in place for advising and decision-making
Measure it
Check the typical challenges off the list
Be fearless in the pursuit!

14. Be fearless in the pursuit
“Never innovate to compete, innovate to change the rules of the game.”  David O. Adeife