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InnovationApplying Science to Innovate SolutionsGrowth and expansion don’t always come in form ofbricks and mortar. Sometimes they come in the wayof ideas. The Henry Ford Health System InnovationInstitute was developed to offer an environmentwhere scientific ideas can be applied to solve realproblems and improve technology, equipment andprocesses in health care.“Innovation strengthens when you have a criticalmass of creative thinkers and build an environmentthat offers support, enhances success andtolerates failure. Through failure, we discover,”explains Madhu Prasad, M.D., director of the Institute.The Innovation Institute brings together people withvarious skills who have unique design, engineering,technological and creative talents that enable them tolook at a problem and devise a solution, whether it’sa new piece of equipment, technology, or a process.Currently, the Education Building, located in thecenter of Henry Ford’s Downtown Campus, is beingrenovated to house the Institute.“We’re bringing together students and faculty fromDetroit’s College for Creative Studies, Wayne StateUniversity’s College of Engineering and SmartSensors and Integrated Microsystems Program, andengineers, physicians, nurses, and other professionalswho work together to identify opportunities wherethey can pioneer solutions,” says Dr. Prasad.More than 30 projects are in process, and includeinnovating new technology and procedures fortreating congestive heart failure and arrhythmias,diagnosing and treating cancer, and applying radiationto tumors. Advanced technologies, more commonlyfound in the aerospace, automotive, and informationtechnology sectors, are all being brought together todevelop devices into marketable products.“Our goal is multi-fold,” reveals Dr. Prasad. “Weare forming the center point of a new medicaltechnologicaleconomy in the city of Detroit. We’realso establishing an environment where intellectualproperty is valued and protected and can potentiallybe commercialized to become new scienceand technology to improve health care.”Henry Ford has partnered with TechTown and anumber of major donors to make a significantinvestment in the Innovation Institute and thecommunity.“We’re working to develop a technology transfercapability that will amplify the effect of new products,enhance development of spin-off companies,and have the potential for providing high-qualityjobs locally,” reveals Dr. Prasad. “Technology- andknowledge-based economic development is a frontierfilled with possibilities for a creative economy.”Henry Ford Health System in partnership with the Henry Ford Medical Group and other institutions such as Wayne State University andthe College for Creative Studies is launching the new Innovation Institute which will open in October, 2011 on Henry Ford Hospital’s MainCampus. The Institute will provide resources to foster collaboration, coordination and communication between physicians, engineers,designers and industry. By combining their talents they will develop, test, and market novel technology-based approaches in an effort tosave resources, time and ultimately – patient lives.10 Henry Ford Health System • 2010 - 2011 System Report
InnovationHarnessing National Funding through Leading ResearchIn 2010, Henry Ford Health System received morethan $52,000,000 in research awards, grants andcontracts and lead the state in National Institutesof Health funding awarded to non-universitybased heath care systems.Researchers at Henry Ford Health System areengaged in more than 1,400 active studiesinvolving patients, patient data, or animal models.In 2010, Henry Ford ranked in the top 200 out ofmore than 1,200 institutions receiving NationalInstitutes of Health (NIH) funding from the federalgovernment. In the state of Michigan, HFHS ranksafter only the University of Michigan, Wayne StateUniversity and Michigan State University in NIHfunding. It has the largest NIH-funded researchprogram of any non-university hospital in thestate.Some Major Research Programs at Henry FordHealth SystemDepartment: The Department of Internal Medicine’sHypertension and Vascular Research Division.Research Goal: Examine the causes and consequencesof high blood pressure.Funding: Funded by two Program Project Grants awardedby the NIH (one funded continuously since 1982) andother NIH and foundation awards. This division received$5.3 million in external funding in 2010.Department: The Department of Internal Medicine’sCardiology Division.Research Goal: Develop and test model devices and newdrugs for treating heart failure.Funding: $3.6 million in external funding in 2010.Other divisions in the Department of Internal Medicinebring in an additional $19 million in external funding.Department: The Department of Public Health Sciencesand the Center for Health Policy and Health ServicesResearch.Research Goal: Investigate gene-environmentinteractions in prostate cancer, causes and consequencesof childhood allergies, asthma, racial disparities in care,problems with adherence to medications and cancerepidemiology.Funding: NIH and foundation grants of more than $6million awarded.Department: The Department of Neurology.Research Goal: Investigate stroke, migraine, cerebralmetabolism, Parkinson’s disease, neuromuscular diseasesand epilepsy, and how bone marrow cells help restorebrain function after stroke.Funding: More than $6.5 million in grants and contracts.Department: The Department of Emergency Medicine.Research Goal: Advance treatment of traumatic braininjury. The Department is the coordinating center for theNeurological Emergency Treatment Trial Network.Funding: $2.8 million in external funding.Department: The Department of Neurosurgery.Research Goal: Understand and develop treatments forbrain tumors and traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries.Funding: $2 million in external funding.Henry Ford Health System • 2010 - 2011 System Report 11
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