The Innovation Center at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) will be partnering with Docent Health in order to knock patient experience out of the ballpark.
HSS, Docent Health Aiming to Partner for Patient Experience
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“We are excited to work with HSS, who has led the healthcare industry in delivering world class patient experiences. They have consistently demonstrated a commitment to innovation and service excellence, ” said Docent Health Co-founder and CEO Paul Roscoe in the April 4, 2016 news release.
“An essential part of the HSS Innovation Center mission is to partner with early stage companies and co-develop, test and refine care delivery and digital health solutions that create scalable value to the global healthcare community, ” said Leonard Achan, HSS Chief Innovation Officer.
Achan told OTW, “A critical component of Hospital for Special Surgery’s (HSS) strategic plan involves taking our long history of innovation, culture and clinical excellence and moving from a focused factory to a knowledge factory that will amplify our intellectual property (IP) to create value to healthcare consumers globally.”
“What this means is that we do not want to only build solutions and spin out companies for ourselves, but we have committed to partnering with visionary startups and companies who want to change the world through collaborative efforts with HSS.”
“Docent Health has a vision to help healthcare organizations make every healthcare consumer a VIP no matter where they receive their care. This is a very important charge for a company today, especially when considering the growth of consumerism in the healthcare marketplace. What better place than at HSS to begin the co-creation process in order to make a platform that leverages our expertise and culture as one of the most patient friendly environments in the world. Docent Health has a clear focus on this and is working with us and a cohort of other organizations to make this a reality. They have the expertise, serial entrepreneurial leadership and a smart team who above all things, puts the patient first. That shared commitment to our patients makes them the right partner.”
“The first steps are to continue to refine the product with Docent health and then we hope to adapt it throughout the organization. It is important to also note that while HSS sees the product as something to use for our own patients, we partnered to build things for consumers everywhere.”
“HSS Innovation Center has a unique position in the marketplace. We currently have over 30 projects in various stages of evaluation and development crossing a span between artificial Intelligence, new devices and implantables…to digital platforms that amplify our learning and expertise to improve healthcare both inside and outside of our own environment. We are working with later stage as well as brand new startups. Beyond our research/IP and technology transfer pipeline, we also have a few companies on the path to spinning out of HSS in 2016-2017.”
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This is a fascinating development. In my practice we've seen similar outcomes with the revised protocol. The key differentiator seems to be patient selection criteria. Has anyone else noticed the correlation with BMI thresholds?
Great point. I'd push back slightly on the conclusion, the sample size in the cited study is too small to draw population-level inferences. That said, the directional signal is compelling and worth a larger RCT.
We implemented a similar approach last year. Early results are promising but we're still gathering 12-month follow-up data. Happy to share our protocol if anyone is interested.
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