Healthcare impact stories

After her daughter's traumatic brain injury (TBI), Lynne Becker became an entrepreneur on a mission—a mission to share with others what she learned about TBI. And ultimately, a mission to accelerate research and clinical trials. Two student teams taking MIT Sloan’s Analytics Lab (A-Lab) helped her t...

What if patients could receive hospital-quality care from the comfort of home? Beth Israel Lahey Health is making that possible. In August 2023, they launched the Hospital at Home program at one of the system’s hospitals, Lahey Hospital & Medical Center in Burlington, MA, enabling qualified patients...

Climate tech company BlocPower specializes in residential building electrification, which improves human health and reduces healthcare costs. But no funding exists to link electrification to preventative healthcare efforts. A team of S-Lab students stepped in to help BlocPower make the link.

Takeda is a global biopharmaceutical corporation with an ambitious zero-waste-to-landfill goal. BioLife, a subsidiary of Takeda, sought to develop prioritized recycling strategies in support of Takeda’s sustainability pledge and goals. A team of three Sustainable Business Lab (S-Lab) students tackle...

Emergency department (ED) overcrowding is often due to bottlenecks as patients wait for CT scan results. That's why Dr. Miriam Bredella, EMBA '22, set out to reduce turnaround times for ED imaging studies at a major urban hospital for her Organizations Lab project.

Continuus Pharmaceuticals, a Massachusetts-based startup focused on making medicine affordable and accessible all over the world, turned to H-Lab for help developing an actionable distribution strategy for ICM-made pharmaceuticals.

As part of MIT Sloan's Healthcare Lab, Biogen engaged students to promote health equity in underrepresented populations.

Solving a no-show problem.

A municipality's evolution.

To improve outcomes for patients, the Inherited Cardiac Arrhythmia Program at BCH asked H-Lab to assess the economic value of postmortem genetic testing after sudden cardiac death (SCD).