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The Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation (CFI), an internal consultancy of the Mayo Clinic, is the United States’s largest health care delivery innovation group working within a major academic medical center. The CFI uses design thinking, an innovation discipline used by many U.S. corporations, to rapidly develop patient-focused health care delivery models that increase the quality and access to health care and decrease its cost. The CFI’s projects cover the full spectrum of modern clinical and hospital practice while focusing on three main areas – redesigning outpatient practice, transforming community health, and care-at-a-distance medicine. Based in the Mayo Clinic’s main facility in Rochester, MN, the CFI has more than 50 full-time staff including service designers, project managers and others working to develop health care delivery solutions for Mayo’s Clinic’s 57,000 employees and half a million patients annually in Rochester as well at Mayo Clinic’s branch facilities in Jacksonville, FL and Phoenix/Scottsdale, AZ. ==History of the CFI== Mayo’s commitment to innovation began in the late 19th century when Drs. William and Charles Mayo founded their medical practice around an innovative concept — the integrated team practice. The Mayo brothers established the approach that is still followed by Mayo Clinic and the CFI today, which is that innovation doesn’t happen by chance but rather requires systematic process, discipline and focus. Formally established as the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation in 2008, the 50+ member multidisciplinary team is now the largest among a growing number of research and testing centers for new health care delivery concepts at U.S. academic and non-profit medical centers. A precursor to the Center for Innovation, the SPARC Lab, was created in the Department of Medicine with a staff of two. By 2008, the SPARC Lab had grown to 24 full-time staff and was rechristened as the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation. In its first three years, the CFI completed more than 100 innovation projects within the Mayo system, ranging from redesigning Mayo’s traditional clinical exam room; to streamlining job descriptions and protocols in a dermatology clinic; to analyzing how hospital care teams hand off patients from one team to another; to supporting a project with a “(stroke robot )” that enables Mayo physicians to consult with patients from a remote location within seconds of the first possible signs of a stroke. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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