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MedStar Institute for Innovation (MI2)

MedStar Health

Editorially verified · Last reviewed August 30, 2026

Intelligence summary

Program at a Glance

Program mandate

Organizational model

Nonprofit

Location

Columbia, Maryland

Program types

Innovation center Accelerator Entrepreneurship Physician innovation

Commercialization pathways

Strategic partnership

Focus areas

ClinicalDigitalOperational

Public scale or maturity signals

Established 2009

Documented successes: Delivered 100,000 telehealth sessions system-wide; recognized by Becker's Healthcare among 2026 hospital simulation programs; operates MedStar Health SiTEL simulation platform; collaborates with Georgetown University on a Health Security Operations Center; Operating since 2009 with five named labs and centers; Business Innovation Lab provides venture and inventor services plus an innovation incubator; runs an administrative residency in innovation and clinical operations and a digital health and innovation fellowship; partnership with Georgetown University on health security operations

Official engagement route

Program website ↗Health system website ↗

Last reviewed

August 30, 2026

Mandate and remit

What This Program Does

The MedStar Institute for Innovation, known as MI2, was founded in 2009 as MedStar Health's system-wide innovation organization spanning Maryland and Washington, DC. It develops and deploys technical capabilities including telehealth, simulation, data science and emerging technologies to enable new care delivery models. MI2 is organized into labs: the Business Innovation Lab, the Care Innovation Lab and Telehealth, the Information Innovation Lab, the MedStar Health Simulation Training and Education Lab, and the Center for Wellbeing. The Business Innovation Lab runs venture and inventor services and an innovation incubator that supports startup clinical and operational programs. It builds and commercializes internal innovation rather than operating as an external venture fund.

Areas of Focus

ClinicalDigitalOperational

Commercialization Pathways

These routes appear in the program's sourced public record.

Strategic partnership

Publicly Reported Outcomes

Documented successes
Delivered 100,000 telehealth sessions system-wide; recognized by Becker's Healthcare among 2026 hospital simulation programs; operates MedStar Health SiTEL simulation platform; collaborates with Georgetown University on a Health Security Operations Center; Operating since 2009 with five named labs and centers; Business Innovation Lab provides venture and inventor services plus an innovation incubator; runs an administrative residency in innovation and clinical operations and a digital health and innovation fellowship; partnership with Georgetown University on health security operations

Leadership and Structure

Organizational home: MedStar Institute for Innovation (MI2), MedStar Health

Bill Sheahan — Senior Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer, MedStar Health; Executive Director, MI2

Contact the Program

Use the program's published contact route for partnership, licensing, innovation, or program inquiries.

Program email: MI2Info@medstar.net
Official contact page: Open contact page ↗

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Sources and Updates

Reviewed August 30, 2026. External source links open in a new tab.

MedStar Institute for Innovation (MI2) official source ↗ — medstarhealth.org. Accessed August 30, 2026.
MedStar Institute for Innovation (MI2) source 2 ↗ — medstarhealth.org. Accessed August 30, 2026.
MedStar Institute for Innovation (MI2) source 3 ↗ — medstarhealth.org. Accessed August 30, 2026.
MedStar Institute for Innovation (MI2) source 4 ↗ — medstarhealth.org. Accessed August 30, 2026.

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