The healthcare industry has to reinvent itself using all available technology and innovative thinkers in order to overhaul a system that is in dire need of help. Communities across the country are collaborating with private and public entities to create new models for healthcare delivery that is not restricted by traditional methods of delivery. These collaborations are intent on addressing the issues that need to be fixed today and seeing what tools, technologies and processes they can adopt to move toward a brighter future in healthcare. The Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s (WPI) Healthcare Delivery Institute (HDI) and the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMSS) are teaming up in one of these collaborations to provide better healthcare delivery.
The new affiliation between the two organizations is intended to encourage joint research and educational programs to improve healthcare delivery. The five-year agreement between HDI and UMMS will bring the resources of both organizations to address the many challenges facing the healthcare system today. They will combine clinical, scientific, engineering, business management expertise and other assets to leverage their strength for providing better human health.
"UMass Medical School and WPI possess complementary arrays of talent in the fields of biomedical and health sciences, technology, and engineering. As a free-standing health sciences campus, UMass Medical School benefits from outside research and development expertise in some of these disciplines, and WPI is a natural partner due both to its proximity and our shared visions," said Terence R. Flotte, MD, UMMS executive deputy chancellor, provost, and dean of the School of Medicine.
HDI is an organization with more than 20 research teams at WPI with multiple disciplines, industry partners and external healthcare providers coming together to resolve healthcare delivery nationally and internationally. Some of the areas HDI faculty work on include advanced robotics, data analytics, information technology, mobile and wireless health applications, portable medical devices for monitoring and imaging and systems engineering. HDI is moving forward to becoming a source of innovation for healthcare solutions that seeks to partner with public and private organizations to co-create real-world solutions that benefits everyone.
"We welcome this new partnership with our colleagues at UMass Medical School. Through this affiliation we plan to strategically develop high impact practical research and educational programs that improve the delivery of healthcare and patient outcomes, not only here in Massachusetts, but nationally and globally," said Vera Tice, managing director of HDI.
Edited by
Brooke Neuman
