1.1 Project title: Innovation for System Partnerships, Implementation and Evaluation (INSPIRE)

Holland Bloorview, as an academic health sciences centre, is often approached by industry who have a desire to co-develop, test, validate, or sell their health products to the organization or its clients. Industry may choose to approach any of a wide range of Holland Bloorview personnel including executives, leadership, clinicians, and researchers. Outcomes from these pitches by industry may then lead to clinical evaluation, research, and/or procurement of hardware or software health products. However, to thoroughly evaluate the opportunity, and determine value for Holland Bloorview, a co-ordinated, collaborative evaluation and decision process involving leadership, administration, clinicians, researchers, and staff is required.
Currently, there is no single process or person(s) in place to intake and evaluate such opportunities when they are presented to us by industry. This results in an overall lack of a coordinated approach within the organization for the next steps of action with respect to decisions on whether to pursue a particular partnered project opportunity, and for how best to evaluate at Holland Bloorview and then introduce it (if deemed appropriate) within our clinical care as part of solution implementation. Similarly, there is also no organizational-wide view of all opportunities that we have engaged in or declined.
To address the issue of strategic alignment, organization-wide coordination, resource optimization and visibility, we will be establishing the Innovation for System Partnerships, Implementation and Evaluation (INSPIRE) initiative.

Faculty Supervisor:

Cynthia Lokker

Student:

Partner:

Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Retail trade

University:

McMaster University

Program: