How do we break today's healthcare spiral?
Rhode Island's diverse but compact healthcare ecosystem provides the optimal conditions to explore and test better ways to deliver higher quality, lower cost health care that makes people both healthier and happier. In the BIF Patient Experience Lab, collaborators design and test new patient-focused healthcare delivery models that put the patient at the center of the system and demonstrate ways to deliver health care that is truly transformed. BIF plays a key role in encouraging collaborative innovation across the health care system and facilitating projects that include patients, employers, providers, insurers, and regulators.
Current Projects
BIF Initiative Turns Nursing Home into Laboratory for Improving Elder Care
The Business Innovation Factory is partnering with Tockwotton Home, Quality Partners of Rhode Island and the MIT AgeLab to create a real-world laboratory for developing and testing new solutions, products and models for improving elderly care. Leveraging the BIF Experience Lab platform, the "Nursing Home of the Future" will create a forum for innovators and industry partners to transform current approaches to elderly care, provide a roadmap for redesigning next generation solutions and help companies and care providers deliver better value to the burgeoning elderly population. [ more ]
Trauma Bay of the Future
In a small, often-crowded room in a hospital's emergency department, teams of doctors and nurses must seize a brief opportunity to save a patient's life after a serious injury or major medical event. These trauma or resuscitation "bays" are complex and critical environments that must be optimized for fast and effective treatment. [ more ]
Primary Care Practice of the Future
Business Innovation Factory launched our Primary Care Practice of the Future project in 2006, with the goal of finding the right mix of innovations in the Primary Care system to create significantly better outcomes in Patient Satisfaction, Health & Wellness, and overall health care cost and utilization. [ more ]
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