Healthcare Innovation Impact Program (HiiP)

Healthcare Innovation Impact Program

Healthcare Innovation Impact Program (HiiP) is a suite of health care innovation support and engagement services at the U-M School of Nursing dedicated to empowering nursing innovation to create impactful improvement in health care delivery.

  • Our Mission: To inspire, educate, train, and support nurses, nursing students, and other nursing academics to innovate and create impact that transforms health and healthcare.
  • Our Vision: To shape and lead the future of global healthcare innovation by empowering innovators to voice, catalyze, and deliver valuable change that advances health and healthcare for all.
  • Learn more about new innovative programs, interventions and services created by our U-M School of Nursing Innovators.
  • Support nursing innovation at the U-M School of Nursing, donate to HiiP 

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What we are:

Comprehensive professional support, propelling health care innovations and advancing health for all.

What we do:

Consult

Consults with/for innovators on:

  • Brainstorming “What’s possible” for their idea.
  • Intellectual property protection and options for market introduction (e.g., licensing)

    Expert business analyses (e.g., identifying competitors, target markets, value propositions, customer discovery, etc.).

  • Helping create an innovation pathway to market…and more.

     

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Coach

Coaches innovators:

  • From “I have an idea” to “getting it out there” and beyond.
  • Participates with them in meetings with resources (e.g., Tech Transfer) through their innovation pathway.
  • Meets with innovators (as often as needed) to support idea progression.

 

 

Connect

Connects innovators to:

  • Collaborative partners to help further innovation along.
  • Other resources/support across U-M Innovation Ecosystem.
  • Resources/funding external to U-M.

 

 

 

What makes us different:


Our innovations

  • Don’t have to be a medical app, device or technology.
  • Don’t need to be screened for inclusion in program - all nursing innovators. and innovations welcome.
  • Don’t have to be commercially viable.
  • Do have to have impact.
  • Interventions, programs, processes and other products are all welcome.
  • Our coaching model.
  • Meet innovators where they are.
  • Walk entire journey with them, as they desire.
  • Put them in the driver's seat.
  • Breadth of services.
  • From ideation to execution into marketplace...and beyond!
  • Interventions, programs, QI improvements, new processes and products are all welcome.

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Contact Us

Rhonda Schoville, PhD., MSBA, RN
Director of Innovation
Certified in the Sonsiel-Drexel Nurse Innovator, Entrepreneur, and Leader Program
734-615-328
rhondas@umich.edu

Ann Fitzsimons, BS, MBA
Innovation Portfolio Manager & Engagement Specialist
Certified in the Sonsiel-Drexel Nurse Innovator, Entrepreneur, and Leader Program
248-592-9390
amfitz@umich.edu

Michelle Munro-Kramer, Ph.D, CNM, FNP-BC
Faculty Lead for Student Engagement/Student Ambassadors
Previous J&J Nurse Innovation Fellow
734-647-0154
mlmunro@umich.edu

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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