MedStar Health is a large health system operating in Maryland and Washington D.C. with over 29,000 employees. In 2009, MedStar Health established the MedStar Institute for Innovation (MI2) to catalyze innovation across the organization and address challenges in the changing healthcare environment. MI2 works to commercialize new ideas and technologies through various domains like telehealth, care delivery models, and human factors engineering. The goal of MI2 is to help MedStar Health become a more innovative organization and advance healthcare through new solutions.

1. MedStar Health & Innovation
Edmund Tori, D.O.
MedStar Institute for Innovation (MI2)
July 17, 2013
(& What’s In It For You?)

3. MedStar Health

4. MedStar At-A-Glance
§ Ten hospitals and 20+ diversified companies
§ More than 100 locations across Maryland and DC
§ 29,000+ associates
§ 6,000 affiliated physicians
– 1,100 residents/fellows in
80+ teaching programs
§ Over 3,300 total licensed
beds

5. Regional Impact

6. MedStar At-A-Glance
Annual Inpatient Admissions: 163,000
Annual Inpatient Days: 800,000
Annual ED Visits: 478,000
Annual Outpatient Visits: 2,000,000+
Annual Home Health Visits: 200,000
Annual Clinical Trial Enrollment: 2,700
Annual Births: 12,000
Annual Surgeries: 114,000
(Figures based on nine hospitals in FY2011)
We treat more than 500,000 patients annually:

7. Daily Regional Impact
On a typical week day, the MedStar Health system:
§ Admits more than 636 new patients
§ Treats over 1,800 patients in our Emergency Departments
§ Sees about 6,100 patients in our outpatient areas
(cancer care, imaging, same-day surgery, rehab)
§ Performs over 430 surgeries
§ Delivers about 50 babies
§ Conducts more than 760 home care visits

8. Internal & External
Challenges

9. 2009

10. Market Share Leadership
Almost 1 in 5
patients in the
region are
cared for by
MedStar Health
MedStar Health Region Includes:
Anne Arundel, MD; Baltimore, MD; Baltimore City, MD; Calvert, MD; Carroll, MD; Charles, MD; Frederick,
MD; Harford, MD; Howard, MD; Montgomery, MD; Prince George's, MD; St. Mary's, MD; Washington, DC.
0.6%
2.9%
5.3%
5.8%
8.9%
10.1%
19.6%
0.0% 5.0% 10.0% 15.0% 20.0% 25.0%
INOVA(4)
Dimensions Healthcare
LifeBridge Health System
Adventist Healthcare System
Univ of Md Health System
Johns Hopkins Health System
MedStar Health System
Source: DCHA/Webfocus, FY 2008, excludes DRG 391 (Normal Newborns)
FY08 Total Regional Inpatient Market Discharges = 713,411
Note: Data predates MedStar acquisition of Montgomery Medical Center(Feb 08) and St Mary’s (Oct10)
and Hopkins acquisition of Suburban (June 09) and Sibley (Nov 2010)

11. July 18, 2013
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12. The tyranny of the daily trumps
the pursuit of the remarkable
There is a vast amount of
untapped intellectual capital at
MedStar Health

13. “Innovation”

15. MedStar Institute for Innovation (MI2)
§ Chartered in 2009 by Ken Samet, CEO & President of
MedStar Health
§ Serves as a catalyst and seed crystal for innovation
across the MedStar organization
§ Created based on three foundational premises:
– For MedStar to achieve greatness in a changing and
challenging healthcare environment, it must innovate.
– The tyranny of the daily trumps the pursuit of the remarkable
unless consciously countered by a force and effort.
– A vast amount of untapped and undertapped creative and
intellectual capital exists among MedStar’s 29,000+ Associates.

16. MI2 Vision, Mission & Mantra
Vision: For MedStar Health to become a high
innovation organization
Mission: To catalyze and create innovation that
advances health
Catalyze
§ Innovation Education within the Enterprise
§ Early Adoption of Innovation for Competitive Advantage
§ Idea Incubation and Collaboration on Innovation Efforts
§ Napkin to Market Commercialization Services
Create
§ Innovative Solutions in Select Focused Domains
Mantra: Think Differently

17. MI2 Domains
§ MedStar Inventor Services
§ National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare
§ Simulation & Training Environment Laboratory (SiTEL)
§ Infonovation
§ Telehealth
§ Care Delivery
§ Complex Systems
§ Presence

21. Test Name Result Unit
Reference
Range
Glucose 87.0 MG/DL 65.0- 125
Sodium 140.0 HMOL/L 136 - 144
Potassium 4.6 HMOL/L 3.60-5.10
BUN 9.00 MG/DL 8.00-24.00
Creatinine 0.90 MG/DL 0.70-1.30
Uric acid 6.00 MG/DL 3.00-8.10
Cholesterol 215.0 MG/DL 120 -233
Triglycerides 230.0 MG/DL 50.0- 200
Protein, Total 7.60 GM/DL 6.50-8.30
GGT 18.0 UNITS/L 5.00-80.0
WBC 5.10 THOUS./CU.MM 4.00-11.0
RBC 3.88 MIL./CU.MM 4.20-5.40
Low Normal High

24. Influence

26. Mobile

30. Healthification
of Games

37. Social
Collaboration

46. Opportunities

47. Questions?

48. Thank You
Ed Tori
ed.tori@gmail.com
@RookieDoc
MI2
http://mi2.org
@Mi2innovation