Children’s Hospital Colorado unveils Center for Innovation to advance patient experience
Children’s Hospital Colorado announced its new Center for Innovation, which officials described as "a formal commitment to pioneer child health innovation that will turn ideas from What if into What's Next."
The Center will offer Children's Colorado team members the means to support innovation as well as a physical space on campus to receive training, attend workshops and take advantage of numerous programs to help bolster new ideas identified as having potential for commercialization, as well as newly devised methods to improve the patient experience at the facility.
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Some of the more business-oriented resources available through the Center will include access to a network of experienced business and entrepreneur mentors, facilitation of medical and technological partners, corporate partners that will provide pro bono or reduced-fee services, and a project management tracking system.
Additionally, a series of workshops will be offered to focus on entrepreneurship and innovation.
“We are 100 percent committed to this program through the development of a dedicated innovation lab, professional education tracks, incubators, accelerators, business mentorship, and more," said Chief Strategy Officer Gil Peri.
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