Building digital innovation capacity at a large academic medical center

Devin M Mann; Sara Kuppin Chokshi; Rachel Lebwohl; Michael Mainiero; Catherine Dinh-Le; Katherine Driscoll; Steven Robinson; Helen Egger

doi:10.1038/s41746-019-0088-y

Building digital innovation capacity at a large academic medical center

NPJ Digit Med. 2019 Mar 7:2:13. doi: 10.1038/s41746-019-0088-y. eCollection 2019.

Authors

Devin M Mann^{1

2}, Sara Kuppin Chokshi¹, Rachel Lebwohl², Michael Mainiero², Catherine Dinh-Le¹, Katherine Driscoll³, Steven Robinson², Helen Egger³

Affiliations

¹ 1NYU School of Medicine, Department of Population Health, New York, NY USA.
² 2NYU Langone Health, Medical Center Information Technology, New York, NY USA.
³ 3NYU School of Medicine, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York, NY USA.

Abstract

Academic medical centers (AMCs) today prioritize digital innovation. In efforts to develop and disseminate the best technology for their institutions, challenges arise in organizational structure, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and creative and agile problem solving that are essential for successful implementation. To address these challenges, the Digital DesignLab was created at NYU Langone Health to provide structured processes for assessing and supporting the capacity for innovative digital development in our research and clinical community. Digital DesignLab is an enterprise level, multidisciplinary, digital development team that guides faculty and student innovators through a digital development "pipeline", which consists of intake, discovery, bootcamp, development. It also provides a framework for digital health innovation and dissemination at the institution. This paper describes the Digital DesignLab's creation and processes, and highlights key lessons learned to support digital health innovation at AMCs.

Keywords: Health care; Public health.