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Vancouver Coastal Health Case Study: Generating Ideas to Create Sustainability in Healthcare

IdeaScale

Preserving the environment and decreasing the carbon footprint is at the forefront of innovation efforts for many companies. One healthcare company, Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH), engaged employees in the idea-sharing process to create a sustainable operating room. Public healthcare. Primary care. Public health.

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Will Blockchain Disrupt the Healthcare Industry?

IdeaScale

And blockchain offers an intriguing potential solution for healthcare innovation management, a method to create a patient record that allows multiple sources to contribute to one patient’s record, and also tracks who looks at it. The question is whether the healthcare industry will allow blockchain to alter it.

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Achieving Balance With Company Culture, Benefit Design, and Employee Well-Being

Business and Tech

A company culture that fosters flexibility and transparency is key to employees feeling comfortable, valued, and supported. However, they also feel disconnected from their co-workers and company’s culture, and report higher incidences of anxiety and depression. What works for one company may not work for another.

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3 Reasons Healthcare Needs Idea Management

IdeaScale

It’s hard enough to keep up in a complex industry like healthcare. But just wait till healthcare is disrupted as dramatically as retail or music has been over the past decade. Learn more about the state of innovation in the healthcare industry in our white paper.

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A PM’s Guide to Forging an Outcome-Driven Product Team

Speaker: Kim Antelo, Transformation Coach

In this webinar, Transformational Coach Kim Antelo will walk through a case study of a healthcare company with lofty OKRs, but with little tie-back to the product performance. The best product teams evaluate themselves not by the quantity or speed with which they release new features, but by how much those features add value.

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Impact of Crowdsourcing in the Healthcare Industry

IdeaScale

Though crowdsourcing has recently gained popularity in many industries across the world, it’s not necessarily intuitive for it to be part of healthcare. Oftentimes, companies can use crowdsourcing to ideate for a new product or product name ideas, such as the chip company Frito Lay with new chip flavor contests.

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i3: A market-creating initiative for African healthcare innovators

Christensen Institute

i3 is a pan-African initiative designed to accelerate the commercialization of 60 promising early & growth-stage healthcare companies. The initiative will provide grants, training, a network, and access to market support for these companies. In 2005 when Ibrahim decided to sell the company, he did so for a handsome $3.4