Health system intelligence profile
Massachusetts General Hospital (Mass General Brigham)
Editorially verified · Last reviewed August 30, 2026
Intelligence summary
Established 2017
Documented successes: FLAG: no working program URL. The former MGH nursing innovation page now redirects to a generic Mass General Brigham page. Confirm the program still operates under this name before outreach.
Mandate and remit
The Center for Innovations in Care Delivery is Massachusetts General Hospital's formal structure for surfacing and developing ideas that originate with front-line nurses and other direct-care staff. Nurses submit clinical problems they encounter at the bedside, and the center pairs them with engineers, researchers, designers, operational leaders, manufacturers and patients to prototype, test, measure and scale solutions. Its signature vehicle is the IDEA (Innovation, Design, Excellence, Awards) program, which awards seed grants and provides months of one-on-one mentoring in human-centered design methodology. The center also anchors MGH's investment in nursing innovation infrastructure through an endowed chair dedicated specifically to nursing innovation. Work developed through the center has moved as far as patenting and clinical trials.
These routes appear in the program's sourced public record.
Documented successes
FLAG: no working program URL. The former MGH nursing innovation page now redirects to a generic Mass General Brigham page. Confirm the program still operates under this name before outreach.
Organizational home: Center for Innovations in Care Delivery, Massachusetts General Hospital (Mass General Brigham)
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