Ivey International Centre for Health Innovation

Ivey International Centre for Health Innovation

Formation	2009
Purpose	To be a global leader in health innovation, adoption and leadership education.
Location	London, Ontario
Region served	Worldwide
Chair	Dr. Anne Snowdon
Website	www.ivey.ca/healthinnovation

The International Centre for Health Innovation is situated within the Richard Ivey School of Business at Western University. The Centre specializes in health innovation, adoption and leadership education. It aims to prepare health leaders with the skills they need to identify, assess and facilitate the adoption of innovative technologies, systems and processes that health systems need in order to be sustainable.^[1] The Centre’s funding is provided through public and private sources. In 2009, Industry Canada contributed funding as part of its Science and Technology Strategy Grant, “Mobilizing Science and Technology to Canada’s Advantage”.^[2] In addition, a number of private-sector groups also fund and support the Centre.

Academic Chair

Dr. Anne Snowdon

Dr. Anne Snowdon, BScN, MSc, PhD is the current Chair of the Ivey International Centre for Health Innovation, and is currently appointed as an Adjunct Faculty Member at the Richard Ivey School of Business.

Dr. Kellie Leitch

Kellie Leitch, O.Ont, MP, BA, MD, MBA, FRCS (C) was the Centre's founding Chair and was Director of the MBA Health Sector stream at the Richard Ivey School of Business. She was elected as a Canadian Member of Parliament for the riding of Simcoe-Grey in the 2011 federal election.^[3]

Advisory Council

The Centre's Advisory Council is made up of professionals working in the health care field. Spanning pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, health care consulting and hands-on patient care, the Council has experience with both the private and public sectors, presenting opportunities for student mentorship, networking and learning. The Chair of the Council is Mr. Neil Fraser, President of Medtronic Canada.^[4]

Thought Leadership

White Papers

The Centre supports thought leadership by partnering to produce point of view papers aimed at spurring the discussion around health innovation and adoption. The Centre's research is focused on five areas of innovation inquiry: medical devices, information technology, health systems, health finance, and pharmaceuticals/biotechnology. The released white papers to date are:^[5]

Strengthening Health Systems Through Innovation: Lessons Learned - November 2011
Transforming Canada into a Global Centre for Medical Device Innovation and Adoption – June 2011
Transforming Canadian Health Care through Consumer Engagement: The Key to Quality and System Innovation – February 2011
Leveraging Information Technologies to Transform and Sustain British Columbia’s Health Care Sector – October 2010
Innovation Takes Leadership – September 2010

Ivey Global Health Conference

This annual conference brings together leaders in both academia and industry to discuss and debate best practices in health innovation and adoption. Student participation in the conference allows for it to also function as a learning platform.^[6]

Education

Case Study Development

The Centre is producing teaching cases that focus on health sector organizations, with particular emphasis on instances of innovation, commercialization and adoption. The case method provides the student with an opportunity to stand in the shoes of the decision-maker, analyzing the business issue presented, making judgments and determining a course of action. Ivey is the only school in Canada that adheres to the case study method.^[7]

Health Sector MBA

The Health Sector MBA stream trains leaders in the capabilities to lead, shape, and change health care systems. The program provides students with the skills and knowledge to utilize best private and public sector managerial practices in assuming a leadership role in meeting health care challenges.^[8]

There are currently 12 mandatory and elective courses in the Health Sector Stream of the MBA program at Ivey.

Required Courses:

The Health Sector

And at least one of:

Leadership & Innovation
Financing Health Sector Enterprises

And any one** (or two) of the following electives:

Risk, Accountability and Governance
Competition and Competitor Analysis
Negotiations
Management Consulting
Management of Services
Managing People
Project Management
Sustainable Business Practices
Global Supply Chain Management

**Students who complete both the Leadership & Innovation and Financing Health Sector Enterprises courses are only required to take one additional elective from this set.

Executive Development

The Centre works with Ivey to provide training for health care leaders. The Centre's Executive Development programs are taught by full-time faculty members who also teach in the Executive MBA, MBA and undergraduate business degree programs. Known for their research, case writing and teaching awards, faculty are consistently ranked among the best in the world by participants.^[9]

Leaders in Innovation

The Centre has designed a course aimed specifically at giving participants the business skills necessary to better enable innovation adoption. "Leaders in Innovation" provides clinicians, scientists, and senior executives business skills that can be applied to any setting from research laboratories in academic institutions to the private sector. The goal of the course is to help these individuals develop skills so that they can more effectively and efficiently commercialize their innovations or manager their labs. The course is taught using Ivey's renowned case study method, which allows students to step figuratively into the position of a decision-maker in a real-world situation.

Health Innovation Projects

An important part of the Centre is the vetting of projects in health innovation that may provide economic value (through either revenue generation or cost reduction) by the introduction of a new product or process. Health Innovation Projects prepare young leaders to facilitate the adoption of innovative technologies, processes and management systems. As part of Ivey's core requirements, over the course of six months each year, teams of five to six students from the HBA and MBA stream develop a business plan for an innovative idea, study an existing strategic issue with an organization or implement a new theoretical concept. With access to the support and supervision of top industry experts, including Ivey faculty and executive subject matter experts (Health Innovators-in-Residence), HIPs allow students to apply the business thinking learned in the classroom to the creation of innovative and sustainable solutions at the forefront of the health sector.^[10]

There are five types of HIP:

Health Consulting Projects (HCP)
Health Venture Projects (HVP)
MSc/CEMS Business Projects
EMBA Executive Client Field Projects
Demonstration Projects^[11]

Independent Consulting Projects (ICP)

Groups of Ivey Health Sector MBA or HBA students tackle a particular business problem or challenge related to the operations of a health care institution, the path to market for a new product or the application of a new technology or process to the health care system. The Chair of the Centre, with distinguished Ivey faculty members and Health Innovators-in-Residence monitor progress throughout and ensure the projects are academically and entrepreneurially rigorous.^[12]

New Venture Projects

A new technology emerging from the lab of a university, research institute or start-up company receives support from a student team. This team takes a hands-on approach to developing and executing the plan to launch the product and create a new venture.^[13]

Demonstration Projects

These are conducted by teams who identify, assess and assist with the commercialization of innovative healthcare technologies, systems and processes. Demonstration Projects are a unique category of Health Innovation Projects that engage researchers to empirically measure and document the process of innovation adoption and the potential for new technologies and process improvements to achieve system level impact on quality of health outcomes and health system sustainability. By understanding the effects of a new concept or product on a small scale focused application, implications can be drawn to formulate an effective strategy for post-pilot implementation across health care systems or in applications for larger markets. Demonstration Projects have the additional advantage of engaging health system stakeholders directly in innovation projects. They support the Centre's mandate for building capacity, while at the same time documenting the impact of new innovative technologies or processes on health systems in Canada and globally.^[11]

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