Healthcare company-building profile
Health Innovation Lab (HILab) and Office of the Chief Nurse Innovation Officer
Duke University Health System / Duke University School of Nursing
Source-based profile
Program at a Glance
- Program type
- Accelerator
- Program category
- Health system accelerator
- Organization
- Duke University Health System / Duke University School of Nursing
- Organization type
- Hospital or health system
- Location
- Durham, North Carolina
- Company stage served
- Not publicly documented
- Cohort or participation model
- Not publicly documented
- Investment or funding offered
- Not publicly documented
- Published investment terms
- Not publicly documented
- Equity or fee model
- Not publicly documented
- Clinical or hospital connection
- Yes
- Application status
- Active
- Founded
- 2017
Public description
About the program
The Health Innovation Lab is a 20,000-plus-square-foot facility at the Duke University School of Nursing, adjacent to Duke University Hospital, that advances nurse-led models of care and translates clinical ideas into practice. It functions as a pipeline for evaluating medical devices, digital health technologies and care delivery models, and has operated as a grant-funded internal accelerator in partnership with Duke Health and the Schools of Engineering and Medicine. In November 2024 Duke University Health System appointed a Chief Nurse Innovation Officer to drive a culture of innovation in nursing practice and act as liaison between Duke Health and the School of Nursing. The same leader directs the Health Innovation Lab. The lab organizes its portfolio around medical devices, digital health and care delivery models.
What the program publicly emphasizes
Focus areas and features
- Category: Health system accelerator
Publicly documented people and network
Program leadership and alumni
- Program leader
- Ryan J. Shaw — Chief Nurse Innovation Officer, Duke University Health System; Director, Health Innovation Lab; Professor, Duke University School of Nursing
- Notable alumni named in public materials
- EasyShift medical device for repositioning immobile patients to improve caregiver productivity and reduce complications; EXTEND, an NIH-funded study using technology to help adults manage type 2 diabetes and hypertension; the Duke Elder Family/Caregiver Training Center for hospital-to-home transitions; operated as a three-year internal grant-funded accelerator; Chief Nurse Innovation Officer role created November 15, 2024; lab staff include Doreen M. Matters (Program Director), Raymond Brisson III, CHSOS and Nicole Petsas Blodgett, PhD, RN, CHSE
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