American Hospital Association December 19, 2019
The first innovation incubator likely was Thomas Edison’s lab in Menlo Park, N.J., where he and his team tinkered with emerging technology, such as the light bulb, phonograph and motion picture camera. Many people consider Edison to be the greatest American innovator in modern history. Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, who was tinkering in his lab and inadvertently discovered X-rays — he received the first-ever Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901 — would likely be considered one of the great innovators in health care. But there are many others.
“86% of health systems now have one or more executives responsible for innovation strategy and oversight.”
Who and what will be considered the greatest innovators and innovations in health care?...
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