Innovation Affinity Group

Creativity in Community

The Innovation Affinity Group regularly convenes 20 to 35 Chief Innovation/Transformation Officers for Dialogue calls and in-person and virtual Summits. Discussion topics include strengthening digital health, aligning innovation to organizational strategy, innovating successfully around communication and more. Plus, if you want to know what your peers are doing and thinking right now, join SI’s Innovation Affinity Group MS Teams Site to facilitate ongoing, ad hoc, open discussion and collaboration among the Innovation peer group.

2021 INNOVATION DATES AT A GLANCE

Dialogues – Invitation-only

These 1-hour, peer-led Zoom meetings are by invitation-only, with recaps distributed to affinity group members via MS Teams. To guest-lead/host a Dialogue on a topic of interest, contact Cynthia Schroers. Some hosts share background materials to support discussion; just ask for samples.

Summits

July 22: “2021 Innovation Virtual Summit – Making Waves: Innovation as a Cultural Mindset”—More details to come.

Nov. 17: Clinical Innovation Panel at SI Fall Symposia, Scottsdale, AZ—More details to come

Upcoming Teleconferences and Webinars – Open to all Members

RESOURCES

Publications

SI 2020 Innovation Virtual Summit Report

January 11, 2021

Sponsored by Deloitte. Forty-six health-system innovation leaders from prominent US healthcare systems convened November 18, 2020, to discuss how innovation is transforming the way...

SI 2019 Innovation & Digital Health Summit Report

December 4, 2019

The SI 2019 Innovation & Digital Health Summit sponsored by Cerner convened 23 innovation and digital health executives from prominent healthcare systems across the...

Previous Teleconference and Webinar Recordings – Available to all Members

2021

Jan

Leveraging the Power of Crowds: How Brigham and Women’s Innovation Hub is taking Aim at Everyday Problems

Santosh Mohan, MMCi, CPHIMS, FHIMSS, Managing Director, Digital Health Innovation; Caroline Coy, MPH, Manager, Strategy Implementation, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; and Callie Patel,...

Feb

Healthcare AI/ML Confidential Computing Platform

Mary Beth Chalk, Business Development, Center for Digital Health Innovation, UCSF Innovation Ventures. Cyberattacks on healthcare data are a clear and present danger resulting in constr...

Mar

The Joy of Practicing Medicine at Providence

B.J. Moore, EVP & CIO, Providence, and Diana Nole, EVP & General Manager, Healthcare Division, Nuance Communications. To create a better patient experience and ease clinician ...

Mar

Human Centered Design and EMR Integration Yields Improved Transportation Experience

Rajiv Pramanik, MD, CMIO; Matthew White, Director of Innovation; Alison Stribling, Public Health Program Specialist, and Sara Cortez, Public Health Program Specialist, Contra Costa Heal...

Apr

WEBINAR | Virtual Advanced Care & Analytics Partnership at OSF

Mark Hohulin, MBA, SVP, Healthcare Analytics, and Jennifer Junis, RN, MSN, SVP, OSF OnCall, OSF Healthcare System. OSF Healthcare’s Virtual Advanced Care manages those at the highest ...

2020

May

OSF HealthCare’s COVID-19 Digital Response

Michelle Conger, MSW, Chief Strategy Officer, OSF HealthCare and CEO, Saint Gabriel Digital Health; Jennifer Junis, RN, MSN, SVP, OSF, Saint Gabriel Digital Health; Becky Buchen, SVP OS...

Jul

EHR Innovations Reduce Clinician Time by 50%

Stephen O’Mahony, MD, FACP, VP & CHIO, RWJBarnabas Health & Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. EHRs are essential to healthcare tr...

Sep

5 Forces for the Future: Reimagining Healthcare

Jean-Claude Saghbini, Chief Technology Officer, Wolters Kluwer Health. COVID-19 has exposed cracks in healthcare delivery systems worldwide. In doing so, it has also catalyzed for...

Oct

WEBINAR | UChicago Medicine’s COVID Innovation Challenge 2020

Sharon Markman, MHA, Administrative Director, Center for Healthcare Delivery Science and Innovation and Craig Umscheid, MD, MS, Chief Quality & Innovation Officer and VP for Healthc...

About Affinity Groups

SI Affinity Groups are intimate forums focused on a common issue, topic or collective challenge of its members, with a goal of information sharing around similar concerns, best practices, lessons learned, industry trends and resources to help organizations thrive.

Christian Lagier

VP, Digital Innovation, Baystate Health

"I get great inspiration from the team that inspires me to push for a higher level of transformation.”

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