They run 20 to 30 startups through the program each year, giving each one $50,000. And especially in an environment like Israel with so many startup companies around us, if you’re closed to those startups, if you’re closed to innovation on the outside, you’re missing a huge opportunity.” “But we know so many of the brightest ideas are coming from outside. “Many of the big medical centers are focusing internally, because they want to develop intellectual property and commercialize it,” CMO and CIO Eyal Zimlichman said at the conference.
Israel’s Sheba Medical Center recently launched its Accelerate, Redesign, Collaborate, or ARC, startup accelerator model (we featured the program in our February HIMSS Insights eBook).ĪRC both incubates outside startups and spins out internally developed technology. So when Israeli hospitals talk about innovation, they’re talking about something that not only needs to pay for itself, but ideally will generate additional money to help fund the hospital.Īt MEDinIsrael 2019 in Tel Aviv, and at a post-event tour organized by the Israeli Export Institute, doctors talked about their innovation strategies and the idea of “sustainable innovation.” Sheba Medical Center’s ARC program The Israeli government only invests 7.5 percent of its GDP in healthcare (the United States spends more than 10 percent). All the R&D we see around the hospital we have to find other sources for that money, and as you can see we are investing a lot in R&D for the hospital.” If you compare us to Stanford, it’s 600 beds, 20,000 workers, and $7.3 billion. “ 5,000 workers, 1,000 beds, and half a billion dollars. Michael Halberthal, recently appointed CEO of Rambam Hospital in Haifa told journalists on a tour of the facility. “Budget-wise, we have half a billion dollars per year,” Dr. But for Israel’s hospitals, that can't be an abstract hope, two hospital leaders told MobiHealthNews on a recent visit to the country. Instead, self-sustaining innovation is a concrete and immediate need for the hospitals’ bottom lines. Hospitals all over the world hope that investment in innovation will ultimately lead to cost savings.
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