December 2022 | View Archived Issues

Created by Angelina Clancy

• A Note from Susan
• Congratulations Innovation Cohort Members
• Last Call for Innovation Bonfire Fund Applications
• December Blender Event

• Partnerships Highlight
• Innovation Highlight
• Opportunities - Connect, Educate & Fund
• Innovation 101

Accelera - Moving You Forward. Movement. Function. Freedom.

Wednesday, December 14

12:00-12:45 pm via Zoom

Presenter: Mike Wing, President & Co-Founder

Meet Mike Wing

Mike has extensive experience as a senior operations and manufacturing management professional, project manager, operational turn arounds leader, and successful business owner. As Co-Founder of Accelera, Mike has built the team and positioned the business and its technology for market launch.



Mike holds an MBA with a concentration in Operations Management from the Whittemore School of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire, a B.S. in Industrial Technology, and a degree in Machine Testing.

Interested in being an Innovation Blender speaker? Please complete this online form.

INNOVATION HIGHLIGHT

Telehealth Cart: Innovative Collaboration Makes Patient Care Successful

The MaineHealth IT team identified the need for a telehealth solution that was affordable, easy to use, and interfaced with internal MaineHealth technology, and decided to create a system based on existing MaineHealth infrastructure. The Telehealth Acute Care Cart (TACC) provides a direct pathway for physicians to communicate between distant locations. This device minimizes the need for outside vendor support, saves money and produces a system that meets the specific needs of MaineHealth physicians. If members of the care team are at different locations and it is determined that a situation warrants a telehealth call, the members of the care team are able to access the Telehealth system via the ZOOMRoom platform from the TACC unit at their respective hospitals. The telehealth system connects the two physicians directly, no link or login needed, and the specialist can see and hear the patient in real time.

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Identifying Our Assumptions

Adapted from Talking to Humans (you can download the book for free as a non-profit care team member)

In our previous Innovation 101 section we covered Shadowing as a way to better understand the opportunity in front of us.

Let’s continue to define ways to understand opportunities and contexts for innovation. 

In our Thinking Differently workshop, we talk about how we can work to push past our current assumptions to come up with new ideas. Innovative ideas come from shifting our thinking beyond the status quo. But in order to push past our current assumptions, we need to have a basic understanding of what they are. What do we believe about the problem or the opportunity in front of us? Mapping out our assumptions about an idea can help us develop tests to figure out if they are true and how we can challenge them!

Whether or not you have a solution in mind already, try to map out your current assumptions about the opportunity in front of you. Try to make your assumptions as concise and specific as possible.

Assumptions Exercise

Start filling out the table below. Answer the following questions about your current opportunity (Note: These are great questions to answer as you start any new project). Then identify your level of certainty in your responses. It’s ok if you can’t answer all of these questions right now. Knowing what you feel uncertain about will help you identify your priorities for continued discovery!