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Advocate Health (Wake Forest University School of Medicine / Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist)
Last reviewed August 30, 2026
Intelligence summary
Documented successes: Runs LAUNCH, an annual innovation incubator, competition and accelerator in which winners receive funding, with past winners in dementia care, blood pressure management, cognitive health and fall prevention (CHI center page); Active project portfolio includes D-Care (dementia care comparison study), HN-STAR (cloud-based tool for head and neck cancer survivors), IGLOO (blood pressure management implementation), mPATH, MindCare365 (cognitive impairment detection platform) and PATINA+; Based at the Bailey Power Plant, 5th Floor, 486 N. Patterson Avenue, Winston-Salem, NC 27101; Partners with Wake Forest Innovations, the Wake Forest Clinical and Translational Science Institute and the Department of Implementation Science; Paul Yelton serves as program director of technology for the center
Mandate and remit
The Center for Healthcare Innovation is the implementation-focused innovation engine inside Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, built around the premise that it takes an average of 17 years to move medical discoveries into mainstream care and that the gap can be narrowed. Rather than waiting for conventional commercialization, CHI takes published research findings, practices and products directly into clinical settings, and evaluates novel ideas that make clinicians more efficient. It runs LAUNCH, an annual innovation incubator, competition and accelerator whose winners receive funding, with past winners working on dementia care, blood pressure management, cognitive health and fall prevention. Its active project portfolio includes D-Care for dementia care, HN-STAR for head and neck cancer survivors, IGLOO for blood pressure management, mPATH, MindCare365 and PATINA+. It offers membership to Advocate Health and Wake Forest University-affiliated researchers and collaboration partnerships to external organizations, and works alongside Wake Forest Innovations and the Wake Forest Clinical and Translational Science Institute.
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Documented successes
Runs LAUNCH, an annual innovation incubator, competition and accelerator in which winners receive funding, with past winners in dementia care, blood pressure management, cognitive health and fall prevention (CHI center page); Active project portfolio includes D-Care (dementia care comparison study), HN-STAR (cloud-based tool for head and neck cancer survivors), IGLOO (blood pressure management implementation), mPATH, MindCare365 (cognitive impairment detection platform) and PATINA+; Based at the Bailey Power Plant, 5th Floor, 486 N. Patterson Avenue, Winston-Salem, NC 27101; Partners with Wake Forest Innovations, the Wake Forest Clinical and Translational Science Institute and the Department of Implementation Science; Paul Yelton serves as program director of technology for the center
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