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March 27, 2014
At the 2011 Emerging Issues Forum on healthcareinnovation, Clayton Christensen, Harvard Professorand author of The Innovator’s Prescription: ADisruptive Solution for Health Care, defined disruptiveinnovation as a way industries can transform toprovide increasingly affordable and accessibleproducts and services to consumers. These innovationsallow a whole new group of people access to aproduct or service that was historically only accessibleto consumers of a certain income or skill.
Achieving Disruptive Innovation through Contests
Last month I presented on a panel about ContestPhilanthropy at the North Carolina Network ofGrantmakers annual meeting. Along withrepresentatives from the Blue Cross and Blue Shield ofNorth Carolina Foundation, Kate B. ReynoldsCharitable Trust and Bull City Forward, I was able toshare how IEI entered down the path of contestphilanthropy, identifying new and promising ideasalong the way.
In 2011, IEI held its first Emerging Issues Prize forInnovation, a program now in its third year. Thecompetition was open to college students from acrossthe state and topic was the prevention of childhoodobesity. The winning idea was an accelerometer thatallows children to track their activity and win points.
Featured Partner
Click here to learnabout the Kate B.
Reynolds CharitableTrust Rural HealthInnovation Award.
FeaturedChallenge
Click here to shareyour ideas for how tostrengthen healthsystems in NC’sresource‐limitedsettings.
Featured Resource
Click here to learnmore and register forIEI’s upcomingwebinar,Strengthening HealthSystems in Resource‐Limited Areas: Lessonsfrom rural South Africaand rural NorthCarolina.
The winners created a company called Sqord and wenton to win other state and national prize competitionsand were recently one of ten companies out of over900 accepted into last year’s Techstars program.
Sqord, a game designed to encourage youth to bemore active, is a company that started from IEI's
Emerging Issues Prize for Innovation.
Rural Focus
With disparities in health status and access to healthcare between people living in rural areas and those inurban areas, cultivating and scaling smaller andsimpler innovations can make all the difference inthese communities.
Last year, the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trustlaunched the New Rural: Innovations in Rural HealthAwards. The winning idea, from a community‐basedmental health and substance abuse provider, was amobile medication program designed to reducehospitalization costs for seriously mentally illindividuals in rural Pennsylvania. Their skill‐buildingprogram begins with an in‐person visit to the patientfor every dose of medication ordered, followed by adaily visit and finally scaling down to a weekly phonecall before patients are discharged from the program.In its first year, the program helped reducehospitalization costs in the area by more than $1.3million. The Trust is working to implement thisinnovative mobile medication program in rural NorthCarolina this year.
Whether or not your organization has the capacity forcontest philanthropy, we can all share the innovations
and ideas we come across. That is why IEI, inpartnership with Duke University’s Sanford Schooland Center for Child and Family Policy, invites youto participate in our upcoming webinar, StrengtheningHealth Systems in Resource‐Limited Areas ‐‐ Lessonsfrom rural South Africa and rural North Carolina, onApril 9 from 3 to 4 p.m. The webinar will highlightexamples of rural health innovation and partnerships,featuring Dr. Mosa Moshabela (Rural Health at theUniversity of KwaZulu‐Natal, South Africa) and Dr.R.W. "Chip" Watkins (Community Care of NC,Asheville, NC). Dr. Watkins’ program is one of fourfinalists of the 2014 New Rural: Innovations in RuralHealth Award. Click here to learn more.
Sarah LangerHealth Policy [email protected]
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