Intermountain Healthcare Partners With IT Leaders On Novel Health Care Technologies

Article preview from Medtech Insight - September 2013

Intermountain Healthcare, a Utah-based nonprofit hospital system, has teamed up with six leading information technology companies to launch the Healthcare Transformation Lab, a project aimed at helping foster the development and commercialization of innovative new technologies with the potential to improve patient care and provider efficiency.

Intermountain Healthcare Partners With IT Leaders On Novel Health Care Technologies

Article preview from Medtech Insight - September 2013

Utah-based Intermountain Healthcare Inc., a large nonprofit health services network, has teamed up with six leading information technology companies to launch the Healthcare Transformation Lab, a project aimed at fostering the development and commercialization of innovative new health care technologies. The Lab already has several prototypes ready for display, including the computerized patient room of the future, 3-D printing of medical devices, a hand-hygiene sensor device, and a “life detector” to remotely monitor the heartbeat.

The collaboration is just the latest example of the growing importance of IT in the health care arena, and particularly the rising interest among providers in remote monitoring technology and other similar advances with the potential to improve both patient care and provider efficiency. 

Intermountain’s Healthcare Transformation Lab has existed in some form for over two years now, but over the summer it was formalized with enlarged space and signed agreements with founding members Xi3 Corp. and Intel Corp., along with collaborators Dell Inc., CenturyLink Inc., NetApp Inc. (formerly Network Appliance Inc.), and Sotera Wireless Inc. (formerly Triage Wireless Inc.).

These six partnering companies “want to impact health care, and they are either in the health care business or they are driving toward health care markets,” Frederick Holston, Intermountain’s chief technology officer, told Medtech Insight recently. “They also view Intermountain as a leader in health care for developing and testing products.”

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