MIT Sloan Health Systems Initiative

Recent HSI Events

• June 2, 2021: Healthcare Certificate Virtual Ceremony

  Healthcare Certificate Virtual Ceremony

  On June 2, 2021, 30 students from eight programs across MIT received the Healthcare Certificate in a virtual ceremony. 

  Watch the virtual ceremony.

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• May 6, 2021: HSI Virtual Seminar with Jónas Oddur Jónasson

  Drivers of Consistency in Paramedics’ Performance

  In this talk, Jónas Jónasson explores how cumulative experience affects performance variability, or consistency, and models the relationship between experience and performance variability among paramedics at the London Ambulance Service.
   
  Results suggest that previously established drivers of productivity should be revisited to examine how they affect consistency, in addition to average performance. He will provide an evidence base for how to model the learning benefits of cumulative experience on performance in service systems. 
    
  Bio
  Jónas Oddur Jónasson is the Class of 1943 Career Development Professor and an Assistant Professor of Operations Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

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• March 25, 2021: HSI Virtual Seminar with Jason Troutner

  How the generic startup truisms fall short in the world of medical devices
  
  Seminar Teaser
  Jason Troutner has been the founder of two venture capital-backed medical device companies, Cast21 and Teal Bio. He also began the journey with two other medical device ideas that never ended up becoming companies. In this seminar, Jason will share his medical device story and explain how the generic startup truisms fall short in the world of medical devices. He will also talk about the two startups he never launched, and how to make the go/no-go decision on a medical device idea.

  Bio
  Jason Troutner, LGO 19, is a serial entrepreneur who has been a co-founder and/or C-suite executive at three venture capital-backed healthcare technology companies. He has worn most of the startup hats at some point, first as the founding CTO of his first startup Cast21, then as the hired COO of Legit.ai until their acquisition by Clora, and now as the founding CEO of MIT spin-out Teal Bio.

  The recording of the seminar is here

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• March 18, 2021: HSI Virtual Seminar with Charles Senteio

  Using Machine Learning to improve health equity and reduce cost of care

  An existing unsupervised Machine Learning (ML) capability is being used to assign risk of Emergency Department visit and subsequent hospitalization for patients who experience gaps in preventive health services. The Health Risk Assessment which feeds the ML tool includes both social determinants of health (SDOH) data and clinical data to assign risk.  To approach the promise of using ML to address health equity, an opportunity exists to 1) use automated tools to collect SDOH data, and 2) design and assess patient-centric, culturally competent interventions which result in both human and financial value. Dr. Senteio will provide an overview of these innovative ML applications and potential future directions in the context of community health informatics research.

  Charles Senteio, PhD, MBA, LCSW, Visiting Assistant Professor, MIT Sloan, MIT MLK Program, 2020-2021, Assistant Professor, Rutgers University

  Watch the recording of the seminar here. 

  
   

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• February 26, 2021: Sloan Healthcare & BioInnovations Conference

  Friday, February 26, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
  Virtual 

  IS FASTER BETTER? This year, we will be exploring the trade-offs between speed of medical innovation and quality of patient care.The MIT Sloan Healthcare & BioInnovations Conference is an annual event that brings together industry, academic, investment, and policy leaders from around the healthcare ecosystem to discuss key issues in the healthcare industry. Attendees will enjoy hearing from speakers and panelists from industry luminaries to serial entrepreneurs, whom they can interact with during virtual networking sessions. Finalists for the Sloan Healthcare Innovations Prize (SHIP) pitch competition will also present their winning ideas during the conference. Conference themes vary from year to year and address the most cutting-edge and pressing issues in the healthcare world.

   

  MIT Sloan Healthcare Innovations Prize - Apply Now

  Join the Sloan Healthcare Innovations Prize (SHIP), a healthcare pitch competition to compete for over $20,000 in prize money. Apply by January 25, 2021.

  ~Sponsored by MIT Sloan Healthcare Club~

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• November 12, 2020: HSI Seminar: Uptake of digital risk minimization tools

  Business Challenge: Uptake of digital risk minimization tools by healthcare professionals and patients with Meredith Smith, PhD, MPA

  Pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies are increasingly using digital tools and approaches to recruit patients for clinical trials and data, to assess and monitor patients’ health status and to communicate product information to patients and healthcare professionals. The industry is investing in digital tools for patients as part of a larger strategy known as “beyond the molecule” in which they seek to offer tools that support the use of a particular drug product.  Such tools are designed to be low-cost to the healthcare system but of high added value to the intended patients. 

  The quality with which digital health tools are implemented and disseminated directly impacts how well they reach the target patient population and are adopted into routine use within the healthcare delivery context.  To fully exploit the promise of digital technology, companies need to understand both the barriers and facilitators that affect use are, as well as strategies that have been shown to work. In this talk we will discuss both issues and potential solutions for digital initiatives within company drug safety departments.

  Speaker:

  Meredith Smith, PhD, MPA is Risk Management Director at Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. She is a behavioral scientist and health services researcher. Meredith is on the board of the Rutgers University BioPharma Educational Initiative in the School of Health Professions and is an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California’s School of Pharmacy.

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• October 29, 2020: HSI Seminar: Rethinking Buildings’ Role in Healthcare Delivery

   HSI Seminar: Data-Driven Design: Rethinking Buildings’ Role in Healthcare Delivery, with Sonal Singh and Jim Peraino

  A growing body of evidence shows that healthcare facilities play critical roles in driving the patient experience, operational efficiencies, and patient health outcomes. Although data-driven approaches are prevalent in healthcare, a lack of architectural data has resulted in these crucial assets being overlooked as tools for health system improvement.In this lunch seminar, two MIT alumni who cofounded Spatio Metrics will discuss how their startup is leveraging data science and machine learning to enable a data-driven approach to building design and management. 

  Speakers:

  Sonal Singh, MBA '19,  is co-founder and CEO of Spatio Metrics.

  Jim Peraino, SM '20, RA, EDAC is co-founder and CTO of Spatio Metrics.  
  Join us Thursday October 29, 2020, 12:30pm - 2pm

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• September 24, 2020: HSI Seminar: The Transformation of the Electronic Health Record

   John Glaser, PhD,  Former CIO, Partners Healthcare: Former CEO, Siemens Health Services; Lecturer, Wharton, University of Pennsylvania

  The electronic health record (EHR) has long served as the foundation information technology support of care delivery. As a result of changes in the business model of health care and relentless advances in the technology, the nature of the EHR will undergo significant change. Specifically, the architecture will shift from a focus on a patient’s record to a patient’s care plan and from transaction-oriented to intelligence-oriented.

  The transition strategies and key capabilities of the evolving electronic health record will be discussed and the ramifications for EHR suppliers and users will be reviewed. 

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