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1. Innovative Thinkers Session 188August 12, 20101:30 p.m. – 2:59 p.m.
2. 2 Introduction – Chuck Brown Housekeeping
Faculty for today
Objectives
Program overview
Governing principles
Program portfolios
Looking forward
3. 3 Introduction - Housekeeping Cell Phone Reminder
Please turn off or change your cell phones to vibrate
If you must answer a call or text message, please leave the room
4. 4 Housekeeping (Cont.) Please, no questions during the presentation
Questions can be written on a 3x5 card & will be answered at the conclusion of the presentation, time permitting
All questions and answers will be posted on the Web including those not answered during class
5. 5 Faculty for Today’s Session Innovation Program Team Members:
Chuck Brown, Director Innovation Program
Jason Carley, Management Analyst
Gail Johnson, MS, PMP (HPTi)
William Cerniuk, Technology Director
Joe Tastrom, Management Analyst
6. 6 Objectives Introduce the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Innovation Program
Describe the various VHA Innovation portfolios
Elaborate on collaboration tooling and the Sandbox development environment
Discuss the VHA Office of Information and Technology (OI&T) Innovation Initiative
Exchange knowledge and encourage networking among potential field Innovators
7. 7 Innovation Program - Overview 2008: Collaboration initiated between the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), Office of Health Information (OHI) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Information and Technology (OI&T)
2010: As part of the VA Secretary’s transformation of VA to a 21st century organization, the VA Innovation Initiative (VAi2) was born
Current: All VHA, Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and OI&T innovation efforts are now coordinated under VAi2 to promote collaboration and ensure consistency
8. 8 Governing Principles Allows critical health care innovations reliant on Information Technology (IT) to:
Emerge from the field
Evolve based on constructive and collaborative review
Solicit commercial/private sector knowledge and alternatives
Be piloted in a safe harbor environment
Business driven
Build projects start to finish in a transparent environment
9. 9 Governing Principles (Cont.) Low bar for Entry:
Anyone can participate
Invites innovative ideas from the field and from other sources such as vendors, open sources, and academic organizations
High bar for Exit:
Promotes standardization, ensures security and operating performance
Mitigates risk to mission critical systems
Encourages solutions to emerge ‘close-to’ Class I
10. 10 Innovation Program Portfolios Bottom up
Top down
Laboratory
11. 11 Innovation Program Portfolios Bottom Up: Field innovators identify clinical and business opportunities, propose innovative solutions, and compete for resources to develop those solutions
Top Down: Targeted VHA business opportunities needing solutions are identified by VA leadership; industry competition to develop enterprise solutions with input of field subject matter experts
12. 12 Innovation Program Portfolios (Cont.)
13. 13 Innovation - Looking Forward Workforce Development: Activities undertaken to build a culture of innovation and a knowledgeable workforce
Innovation Diffusion: Evaluation of the quality of products and how products work in the health care delivery process
14. 14 Bottom Up Innovation – Jason Carley Portfolio Overview
Greenfield Incubation
VHA/OI&T Innovation Initiative
Status
15. 15 Bottom Up Innovation - Overview
16. Bottom Up Innovation – Greenfield
17. 17 Bottom Up Innovation – II Deleted VHA/OI&T due to spaceDeleted VHA/OI&T due to space
18. 18 Bottom Up Innovation – VHA/OI&T II
19. 19 Bottom Up Innovation – II (Cont.)Usage Statistics 2/5/10 – 2/28/10
20. 20 Bottom Up Innovation – II (Cont.)Usage Statistics 2/5/10 – 2/28/10
21. 21 Bottom Up Innovation – II (Cont.) Thousands of ideas to 100 full proposals
Crowdsourcing results used to identify the 75 most popular ideas
Ideas voted up, voted down or commented on
Incentives offered for top participants
Under Secretary for Health (USH) designees selected 25 additional “gems” that were not identified by the voting process
Proposal invitations released on March 23rd
Full proposals to funded ideas
67 full proposals were received by April 16th
Proposals were randomly distributed among 6 panels
Each panel consisted of a: Physician, Nurse, Administrator, Informaticists, and Distinguished Guest
Deleted Down SelectionDeleted Down Selection
22. 22 Bottom Up Innovation – II (Cont.) 26 proposals approved for funding on May 14th
20 proposals in both the normalized and raw top 25
6 additional highly ranked proposals recommended by the panels for funding
17 (65%) crowd nominated, 9 (35%) executive picks
~$15M required for execution Had to split 22 into 2 slidesHad to split 22 into 2 slides
23. 23 Bottom Up Innovation – II (Cont.)
24. 24 Bottom Up Innovation – II (Cont.)
25. 25 Bottom Up Innovation - Status Many exciting Bottom Up Innovations are moving forward and are in various stages of maturity
We look forward to many successful Innovations and soliciting more innovative ideas in the future
26. 26 Top Down Innovation – Gail Johnson Definition
Approaches
Results
Current status of projects
27. 27 Top Down Innovation – Definition Top Down Projects:
Are problematic areas or improvements needed to advance VHA patient care efforts
In need of innovative solution definition and development
Tend to be larger in scope and cost than Bottom Up project
Are intended to ultimately be enterprise-wide solutions
Speak to the ideas coming from the executives… or JC…
(Starts with user centered design workshops)Speak to the ideas coming from the executives… or JC…
(Starts with user centered design workshops)
28. 28 Top Down Innovation - Approaches Three different approaches
Conduct field developed solutions “bake-off” of existing VHA innovations to address a VHA Strategic Goal
Solicit ideas from VHA Leadership, e.g. VISN Directors and VHA Chief Officers
Accelerated user-centered design requirements and agile development methodologies applied by the Innovation PMO in close collaboration with VHA clinical sponsor and field personnel
Conduct an Industry Innovation Competition
VA Leadership topics selected
Release to private sector for solution proposals
29. 29 Top Down – Results: Approach 1 Bake Off
Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goal for Standardized Anticoagulation Therapy Management chosen for focus
Working group formed
10 field developed Class 3 software solutions reviewed by cross Network and VA medical center innovators
Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center solution chosen and approved by the National Leadership Board (NLB) in September 2008
30. 30 Top Down – Results: Approach 2 Leadership Solicitation
January 2009 solicitation
49 submissions received
12 from Veterans Integrated Service Networks (VISNs), 5 Central Office programs
15 peer reviewers
Mix of field and VHA Central Office staff, clinical, business and technical staff
Blinded independent review which assessed each Innovation Criteria on a 1-5 scale
Potential conflicts of interest addressed
Group discussion and final scoring at face-to-face meeting in March 2009
(think about a pie graph with submissions by visn)(think about a pie graph with submissions by visn)
31. 31 Top Down – Results: Approach 2 (Cont.)
32. 32 49 strategic submissions ranked
Full descriptions of all submissions
http://vaww.innovations.va.gov
33. 33 Top 10 identified by review team in March 2009
34. 34 Top Down – Results: Approach 3 VAi2 Industry Innovation Competition
Solicitation for private sector ideas for solutions released
Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) on 6/07/10 from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary – open through September 2010
Six key areas for substantial advancement selected
Innovative Housing Technologies to Address Veteran Homelessness
Telehealth
New Models of Dialysis and Renal Disease Prevention
Improvement of Polytrauma Care
Reducing Adverse Drug Events
Integrated Business Accelerator
35. 35 Top Down – Current Status Anticoagulation Management Project
Sept. 2008: Portland product began upgrade to Class 1
Sept. 2008: Joint field developer, stakeholder, and Office of Enterprise Development (OED) project team formed
Oct. 2008: Product underwent technical review and revisions analysis
March 2010: Product released nationally; implementation paused until patch correcting production issues tested and released
Current: Final production release pending changes
Visit VHA Innovation Booth for a demonstration.
36. 36 Top Down – Current Status (Cont.) Chemotherapy Ordering Project
Nov. 2009: First Chemotherapy Ordering Workshop (Analysis Phase) held and conducted by the Vanderbilt Center for Better Health (VCBH)
Start of user requirements definition
Feb. 2010: Second Chemotherapy Workshop (Design Phase) held with VCBH
User requirements refined and screen shot developed
July 2010: Innovator project team formed
Aug. 2010: Agile methodologies software development contract awarded 1. Procure fast paced collaborative methodologies to accelerate scope/prototype definition
2. Form Subject Matter Teams (SME) Teams - 1 per Challenge
1. Procure fast paced collaborative methodologies to accelerate scope/prototype definition
2. Form Subject Matter Teams (SME) Teams - 1 per Challenge
37. 37 Top Down – Current Status (Cont.) Chemotherapy Ordering Project
Since August 2010:
Agile development and prototypes produced
Shared with project team to refine solution
Please visit VHA Innovation Booth to see the current prototype demonstration.
38. 38 Top Down – Current Status (Cont.) Point of Care Support of Clinical Decision Making Project
Jan 2010: First Point of POC of CDM Workshop (Analysis Phase) held and conducted by the Vanderbilt Center for Better Health (VCBH)
Start of user requirements definition
June 2010: Second POC CDM Workshop (Design Phase) held with VCBH
User requirements refined and screen shot developed
July 2010: Innovator project team formed
Aug 2010: Agile methodologies software development contract awarded
39. 39 Top Down – Current Status (Cont.) Point of Care Support of Clinical Decision Making Project Since August 2010:
Agile development and prototypes produced
Shared with Project Team to refine solution
Please visit VHA Innovation Booth to see the current prototype demo!
40. 40 Top Down – Current Status (Cont.) Six Leadership Solicitation Projects
Solicitations of private sector proposals for Innovative solutions
Industry responses coming in now
41. 41 Laboratory – William Cerniuk Laboratory Components
Collaboration
Innovation Sandbox
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44. 44 collaboration \k?-'la-b?-'ra-sh?n\
noun
1 the action of working with someone to produce or create something.
2 traitorous cooperation with an enemy : he faces charges of collaboration.
DERIVATIVES
collaborationist |-nist| noun & adjective (sense 2).
ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: from Latin collaboration(n-), from collaborare ‘work together.’
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47. 47 Goals:
Foster a Social Network of Innovation
Cultivate Communities of Interest
Reduce unnecessary redundancy
Accelerate the innovation process
Inspire innovators
Propagate lessons learned
48. 48 On the Horizon
Idea managementcollection, assessment, workflow, promotion
Knowledge managementsearch and browse innovation knowledge base
Source code managementconfiguration management, assignment tracking and bug reporting
49. 49 Laboratory - Innovation SandboxJoe Tastrom
50. 50 Laboratory - Innovation Sandbox (Cont.) Principles of Operation
Easy access
Available to all innovators
Transparent to the enterprise
Share, share, share
Light touch governance to promote consistency and simplicity
51. 51 Laboratory - Innovation Sandbox (Cont.) Sandbox Overview
Software development and systems engineering
Virtual workspace with virtual workstations
Available enterprise-wide
Joint effort between the Office of Health Information (OHI) and the Office of Information and Technology (OI&T)
Open to all code warriors
52. 52 Laboratory - Innovation Sandbox (Cont.)
53. 53 Laboratory - Innovation Sandbox (Cont.)
54. 54 Laboratory - Innovation Sandbox (Cont.)
55. 55 Laboratory - Innovation Sandbox (Cont.)
56. 56 Laboratory - Innovation Sandbox (Cont.)
57. 57 Laboratory - Innovation Sandbox (Cont.)
58. 58 Laboratory - Innovation Sandbox (Cont.)
59. 59 Laboratory - Innovation Sandbox (Cont.)
60. 60 Closing – Chuck Brown Culture of innovation
Goals and objectives
Innovation program vision
61. 61 Culture of Innovation Ignite the spark of innovation in the VHA once again
Those closest to the issues know best how to correct them
Foster collaboration with field development and national developers
Embrace unsuccessful prototypes for the lessons learned and knowledge gained, which ultimately improves the organization
62. 62 Culture of Innovation (Cont.) Business Focus Group Results: How to Value Innovations
Improve patient care (e.g., safety, quality, or access)
Improve efficiency (e.g., clinical workflow, cost/benefit)
Affect numerous Veterans, staff, or other stakeholders
Address an unmet need rather than incrementally improve existing methods
Help meet an organizational requirement (e.g. Joint Commission or congressional mandate)
63. 63 Goals and Objectives Full Transparency:
Make all work, lessons learned, and documentation readily accessible to any member of the organization
Ensures consistent and ongoing coordination with customers and continuous assessments of potential innovative solutions
Promote knowledge transfer from innovator to production systems development staff
64. 64 Innovation Program Vision Transition the local VHA innovation environment of the past to a virtual innovation community of the future
Establish innovation partnerships with OI&T, VBA, and private industry
Foster innovation lifecycle from incubation to bedside
Recognize innovation as a critical element of the workforce
Create, connect, and empower innovators