List of Health Care Innovation Centers

I recently interviewed Lyle Berkowitz, MD, a 42 year old internist who is program director of the Szollosi Healthcare Innovation Program at the Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwestern University in Chicago.

Dr. Berkowitz believes innovation offers America the surest and best chance of offering better health care for patients and physicians alike. He is now touring America, visiting various innovation centers. As part of our interview, he supplied me with the following list of major centers of healthcare innovation in the U.S. with some of their contact information.

Innovation Centers

• Kaiser Garfield Innovation Center: http://xnet.kp.org/innovationcenter/index.html

• Group Health’s MacColl Institute for Healthcare Innovation: http://www.centerforhealthstudies.org/research/maccoll.html

• Johns Hopkins Center for Innovation (Peter Provonost) – www.hopkinsquality.com

• MGM Innovation in Primary Care – www.mgh.harvard.edu/stoecklecenter

• Vanderbilt Innovation team: http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/vcbh/index.html

• Ascension Health: http://www.ascensionhealth.org/ht_works/innovative_advancements.asp

• Geisinger Ventures: http://www.geisinger.org/professionals/ventures/about.html

• The Innovation Program at Partners HealthCare

• Innovation Center at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

• Northwestern’s Szollosi Healthcare Innovation Program (SHIP): www.TheShipHome.org (coming soon)

Other relevant innovation organizations

• IHI Institute for Healthcare Improvement: www.ihi.org

• California Healthcare Foundation: www.CHCF.org