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OSF HealthCare and Bradley University partner to solve pressing health care problems
At OSF, innovation is essential to everything we do.
We build partnerships with universities, business partners, entrepreneurs, startups and philanthropists to make care better and easier for patients and providers with solutions designed to connect everyday care needs with inventive approaches and bold advances.
Whether you are looking for best practices in simulation, how to bring an idea to fruition or searching for a partner to pilot your product, OSF Innovation offers a variety of resources and services to help you transform health care for people everywhere.
Whether you are looking for best practices in simulation, how to bring an idea to fruition or searching for a partner to pilot your product, OSF Innovation offers a variety of resources and services to help you transform health care for people everywhere.
The latest from OSF Innovation
Blogs
Launching a digital hospital - Partnering to support new models of care
Case Studies
ED Dashboard - Capturing and reporting live data from all ED's across the Ministry
What we are exploring
Clear focus and direction are essential for successful innovation. With the Mission of OSF HealthCare as a guide, we concentrate our innovation investments, partnerships and activities in five areas that will serve the most important needs of the communities OSF serves.
Next Generation Business and Care Models
Read moreWe innovate to meet our patients with exceptional care wherever they are, and create the connected experiences patients and providers need – within and beyond hospital walls.
Test Learn More LinkHow we innovate
We combine the talents of multidisciplinary teams from OSF HealthCare with a variety of external partners to generate ideas, design change, test proposed concepts and implement solutions to health care’s most challenging problems.
Develop
Whether opportunities are generated by an OSF team, a business partner, a new startup or all of the above, we provide the capabilities to refine promising solutions.
Identify and Discover
We pursue strategic internal and external health care solutions that will bring the greatest value to our organization, Mission Partners and the people we serve.
Implement
Innovation is most rewarding when it can be carried out to improve health care across our integrated care system—and beyond.
Our Partners
We understand the value of fresh perspectives, and seek to work with innovators outside our walls. OSF partners with start-ups, corporations, universities and other hospitals to maximize their solutions using its existing assets.