CIMIT AND INDUCT TEAM TO HELP DRIVE HEALTHCARE INNOVATION
(Thomson Reuters ONE) -
Web-facilitated "CIMIT Model" to Increase
Innovation through Collaboration between Clinicians and Engineers
BOSTON, MA and OSLO, NORWAY - August 24, 2010 - The Center for Integration of
Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT®) and Induct Software(TM) AS (Induct),
"The Open Innovation Company(TM)," today announced a long-term strategic
alliance under which they will work together to implement a Web-based innovation
management system based upon the successful CIMIT Model. The collaboration will
draw on the strengths of each organization to develop Web-based tools that
support the accelerated implementation of leading-edge ideas, clinical systems
and medical devices through multidisciplinary teams of innovators.
CIMIT, a non-profit consortium of Boston's premier teaching hospitals and
universities, is entering into this alliance to advance its mission in a
scalable way by leveraging the Induct technology platform. CIMIT fosters
interdisciplinary collaboration among world-class experts in medicine, science,
engineering and clinical systems, in concert with industry and government, to
rapidly improve patient care. CIMIT stimulates and facilitates early-stage
translational research by collaborations of engineers and clinicians to catalyze
the discovery, development, and implementation of innovative technologies.
The goal of the CIMIT/Induct alliance is to implement elements of the CIMIT
Model within the Induct platform. The initial focus will be to enhance the
convening potential of the CIMIT community and to help other groups collaborate
in a similar way to improve patient care. Seamlessly integrated into the Induct
framework, the new CIMIT functionality will help other like-minded healthcare
communities and organizations to adopt the CIMIT Model and to embrace CIMIT's
collaborative approach to innovation. The alliance enables Induct to integrate
additional CIMIT methods, tools and services that support the creation, sharing,
and implementation of innovative operational ideas within and across
organizations in healthcare and other industries.
"CIMIT has developed a proven and successful Model for initiating and
accelerating translational medical research in the domain of devices,
procedures, and clinical systems," said CIMIT chief executive John A. Parrish,
MD. He went on to say, "Our community is large and distributed over many
different institutions. New collaboration tools and platforms will virtually
unite the physician-scientists and engineers of our member institutions and
support innovation. In addition to our traditional emphasis on product and
technology innovation, we are focused on transforming the healthcare delivery
system to improve the quality of and access to care, along with a step change in
cost effectiveness. Implementing the CIMIT Model through Induct's Web-based
platform will allow us to facilitate these efforts by offering an increased
level of healthcare innovation."
"Induct has been working on end-to-end open innovation initiatives in Norway,
Sweden, Denmark, and the UK that help providers deliver better quality
healthcare in a more cost efficient manner," said David M. Burns, CEO of Induct
Software AS. "As we started to explore opportunities in the U.S., we heard from
several key consultants and hospital leaders that CIMIT had the most real-world
experience in collaborative healthcare innovation. Based on input from CIMIT,
we are adding new and exciting functionality to Induct that will help CIMIT and
others to operate more efficiently. By incorporating the CIMIT philosophy into
the Induct platform, we will be capturing CIMIT's best practices and making them
available in a Web-based open innovation management system for companies and
organizations in healthcare and other important industry sectors."
About CIMIT
CIMIT is the Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology. A
non-profit consortium of Boston-area teaching hospitals and engineering schools,
CIMIT provides innovators with resources to explore, develop and implement novel
technological solutions for today's most urgent healthcare problems.
Participants in the consortium are Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston
Medical Center, Boston University, Brigham and Women's Hospital, the Charles
Stark Draper Laboratory, Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School,
Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Partners HealthCare and VA Boston Healthcare System.
To find out more about CIMIT visithttp://www.cimit.org
About Induct
Induct changes the way that companies think about innovation. Based on the
pioneering work of UC Berkeley Professor Henry Chesbrough, author of the book
'Open Innovation,' and one of the acknowledged leaders in the open innovation
field, Induct integrates Enterprise 2.0 technology and social networking
concepts with a flexible and customizable innovation process management
framework. The result is a 'Software as a Service' (SaaS) platform that allows
organizations to easily practice open innovation through the creation of virtual
Innovation Communities. To find out more about Induct,
visitwww.inductsoftware.com
Contacts:
CIMIT
Elaine M. Richardson
Director, Strategic Communications & Marketing
617-643-3838
emrichardson(at)partners.org
Induct
David M. Burns
617-487-5872
David.Burns(at)InductSoftware.com
Induct
Alf Martin Johansen
+47 90 17 94 35
AMJ(at)InductSoftware.com
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Communities(TM), The Open Innovation Company(TM), and the Induct four-colored
logo are trademarks of Induct Software AS. Copyright © Induct Software AS. All
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