Innovation engine
The Baycrest Innovation Engine develops, evaluates and transfers new practices, knowledge and products from our health sciences platform to the division at Baycrest responsible for bringing products to market, and has a system-wide impact on care delivery, quality of life and health and wellness.
Innovation has been part of Baycrest's fabric since its inception in 1918. We have seized every opportunity to grow, innovate and lead -- we expanded from a small retirement home that served Toronto's aged Jewish community to offering an innovative continuum of care connecting healthcare and support services at home, in hospital and in long-term residential care. We then became a major academic health sciences centre fully affiliated with a university and we built one of the world's leading research centres in human memory and aging. Today, we are home to global leaders in aging and brain health and we are a unique innovator of senior services.
At Baycrest, we create, evaluate and transfer new practices, knowledge and products from our health sciences platform and bring them to market to provide a system-wide impact on care delivery, quality of life and health and wellness for an aging population.
Innovative thinking can be found across the campus and is driven through three key areas:
- The Innovation Technology & Design Laboratory is a real-world lab where scientists, engineers, architects, designers and artists develop, inform and validate new products, technologies and processes that enable successful aging at home and improve the care environment within the institutional setting.
- The Centre for Brain Fitness develops evidence-based technologies and interventions aimed at early detection and prevention of aging-related memory decline, repair, and rehabilitation of function.
- The Kunin-Lunenfeld Applied & Evaluative Research Unit investigators work collaboratively with health-care providers, researchers, policy planners and others to evaluate the efficacy of new health-care interventions and the cost-effectiveness of new models of senior care delivery.
Innovative partnerships
Commercialization
Baycrest is actively leveraging its remarkable complementary strengths in innovative care delivery and research by pursuing a unique commercialization agenda. Baycrest has partnered with MaRS Discovery District, a large-scale Toronto innovation centre, in the development of its first spinout company, Cogniciti. This for-profit company has been specifically established to create and bring to market products, goods, and services designed to maintain healthy cognitive functioning throughout middle adult and later years. Its products will include brain games, employee assistance memory workshops, smart phone and on-line applications for brain fitness and clinical cognitive diagnostic tools.
Baycrest is now launching a limited partnership that will introduce a comprehensive and uniquely competitive portfolio of aging oriented products, goods, and consulting and development services to the international marketplace.
Microsoft and Baycrest working together
The challenges facing healthcare professionals today are shared by many institutions, so we think the solutions should be as well. Baycrest has partnered with Microsoft Canada and consulting company Orangutech to create a mechanism for health-care organizations to conveniently share electronic documents using cloud computing. eHealth2Share serves as an online hub for the time- and cost-saving sharing of electronic forms and workflow templates, best practices in patient care, clinical user groups, e-Learning, international collaboration, and shareware applications such as a Freedom of Information tracking system. Members in eHealth2Share can also create dedicated communities for healthcare professionals to collaborate on new projects.
Learn more about eHealth2Share: Baycrest leads first healthcare sector use of cloud services.
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