Healthcare company-building profile
Nursing Innovation Hackathon
Dartmouth Health
Source-based profile
Program at a Glance
- Program type
- Accelerator
- Program category
- Health system accelerator
- Organization
- Dartmouth Health
- Organization type
- Hospital or health system
- Location
- Lebanon, New Hampshire
- 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
- 2023
Public description
About the program
Dartmouth Health's Nursing Innovation Hackathon, described internally as a Shark Tank for nurses, is a two-day event that trains front-line nursing staff in design thinking and then has them pitch solutions to problems they face daily. The inaugural event ran January 26-27, 2023 at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and drew registered nurses, nurse practitioners, medical assistants, licensed practical nurses and licensed nursing assistants from across the system. Participants were split into teams, trained on design thinking and artificial intelligence, and judged on their pitches. The winning team was awarded a six-month mentorship with nursing innovation experts to develop its concept further. The event was organized by a Dartmouth Health nurse manager and backed by the system's chief nurse executive.
What the program publicly emphasizes
Focus areas and features
- Category: Health system accelerator
Publicly documented people and network
Program leadership and alumni
- Program leader
- Briana L. White — Manager of Clinical Quality and Care Management, Dartmouth Health Visiting Nurse and Hospice for Vermont and New Hampshire; hackathon organizer
- Notable alumni named in public materials
- Inaugural hackathon January 26-27, 2023 with 12 participants in 5 interprofessional teams; first place Go-Getter strap allowing staff to move two wheelchairs at once to expedite discharges, awarded a six-month mentorship with nursing innovation experts; second place Throughput Fairy patient-flow tracking system to reduce length of stay; third place HEART Project peer-to-peer nursing support program; championed by Susan A. Reeves, EdD, RN, Chief Nursing Executive of Dartmouth Health and EVP of DHMC
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