Innovate Health
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<p>Explore the breakthroughs, bold ideas, and rising innovations reshaping patient care and life science. From new technology to fresh thinking in medicine, discover what's next for healthcare and everyone working to keep us well. Produced by OHSU clinical informatics and Strategic Communications.</p>
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July 9, 2026
From Lab Bench to Market: How OHSU Innovates Turns Research Into Startups — with Dr. Aditi Martin
<p>How does a promising discovery in a research lab actually become a company, a licensed product, or a clinical tool patients can use? In this episode of Innovate Health, Dr. Aditi Martin, Senior Director for Collaborations and Entrepreneurship at OHSU, breaks down how OHSU Innovates helps researchers, clinicians, and students turn early-stage ideas into partnerships, startups, and market-ready innovations — and why entrepreneurship doesn't have to be a lonely journey.</p><p>In this episode:</p><p>• Inside OHSU Innovates: how partnership development, startup formation, and gap funding work together to support academic entrepreneurship</p><p>• Real success stories — from a nerve-imaging surgical technology (Trace Biosciences) to a biodegradable neurosurgical clip (NeuraMedica)</p><p>• How the Biomedical Innovation Program and the I-Corps-based Commercialization Readiness Program de-risk the path from idea to market</p><p>• Why "the earlier, the better" is the golden rule for connecting with OHSU's innovation and technology transfer teams</p><p>• Guest credential: Dr. Martin is a pharmacologist by training who spent seven years at Johns Hopkins Tech Ventures before joining OHSU in 2015 to lead its growing innovation ecosystem</p><p>Guest: Dr. Aditi Martin, Senior Director for Collaborations and Entrepreneurship at OHSU. A pharmacologist by training (Virginia Commonwealth University), Dr. Martin spent seven years at Johns Hopkins Tech Ventures in business development, licensing, and patent analysis before joining OHSU in 2015 to help build out its innovation and entrepreneurship programming.</p><p>Topics covered: academic entrepreneurship, technology transfer, biomedical innovation funding, healthcare startups, industry-academia partnerships, commercialization readiness</p><p>Timestamps:</p><p>02:05 Dr. Martin's path to OHSU and what OHSU Innovates is</p><p>05:14 Partnership development — the first pillar of Collaborations & Entrepreneurship</p><p>07:07 Cultivating startups from university IP — the second pillar</p><p>08:53 The Biomedical Innovation Program: gap funding for early-stage ideas</p><p>09:50 The I-Corps-based Commercialization Readiness Program</p><p>11:59 Push vs. pull — how researchers and innovators connect with the program</p><p>13:58 Success story: Trace Biosciences' nerve-imaging technology</p><p>15:42 Success story: NeuraMedica's bioabsorbable surgical clip</p><p>17:16 When to reach out — "the earlier, the better"</p><p>20:03 How OHSU Innovates defines success: metrics, ROI, and repeat innovators</p><p>24:07 Navigating risk and the culture shift toward innovation at OHSU</p><p>26:41 Coaching researchers through commercialization anxiety</p><p>30:56 Overcoming early resistance through relationship building</p><p>34:49 What's next: on-campus startup space and expanded ecosystem partnerships</p><p>36:51 How to get started — contact info, newsletter, and the annual impact report</p><p>Links & Resources Mentioned:</p><p>OHSU Innovates — <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.ohsu.edu/innovates">https://www.ohsu.edu/innovates</a></p><p>OHSU Collaborations and Entrepreneurship — <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.ohsu.edu/innovates/collaborations-and-entrepreneurship">https://www.ohsu.edu/innovates/collaborations-and-entrepreneurship</a></p><p>Entrepreneurial Education Programs — <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.ohsu.edu/innovates/entrepreneurial-education-programs">https://www.ohsu.edu/innovates/entrepreneurial-education-programs</a></p><p>OHSU Startup Companies — <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.ohsu.edu/collaborations-and-entrepreneurship/ohsu-startups">https://www.ohsu.edu/collaborations-and-entrepreneurship/ohsu-startups</a></p><p>Contact Dr. Martin's team: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:oce@ohsu.edu">oce@ohsu.edu</a></p>
June 9, 2026
AI Healthcare Staffing Optimization: From Hero Staffing to Best-Fit OR Teams
Fragmented perioperative staffing models — driven by siloed knowledge, manual scheduling, and overreliance on hero staff — create inefficiencies that delay surgical access and increase staff burnout. This discussion highlights how an AI-powered staffing optimization platform leverages real-time workforce data and case-history intelligence to automate assignments, standardize decision-making, and improve OR throughput, care consistency and team scalability. In this episode we cover: - AI-Powered Perioperative Optimization: How predictive staff-to-case matching improves surgical efficiency, reduces case duration, and enhances patient care consistency. - Operational & Technical Barriers: The challenges of replacing manual, siloed scheduling systems with integrated AI tools across OR workflows and workforce systems like Kronos and EHRs. - Leadership & Transformation Strategy: Lessons on driving adoption through frontline engagement, co-design, and reframing AI as augmentation—not replacement—of clinical expertise. Episode Timeline and Key Takeaways 00:05 – Introduction and Context: The current landscape of perioperative operations, highlighting the hidden complexity of getting patients efficiently from scheduling into the operating room. 03:44 – Addressing the Staffing Optimization Problem: Why traditional “hero staffing,” siloed expertise, and manual, paper-based scheduling fail to scale in modern healthcare infrastructure. 16:04 – Technical Deep Dive: Breaking down how the AI staffing platform integrates Kronos workforce data and EHR-derived case history to match staff expertise with surgical needs and enable automated assignments. 25:50 – Workforce, Research and Education Impacts: How this shift improves care consistency, reduces administrative burden and creates new opportunities for staff development, cross-training and competency tracking. 34:25 – Future Outlook: Where AI-driven staffing and resource optimization will expand to next.
April 22, 2026
Back to the Patient: How AI Scribe is Changing the Visit
What happens when the computer stops being the center of the exam room? This episode of Innovate Health explores AI scribe—technology that listens during a visit and drafts a clinical note for clinicians to review, edit and sign. We discuss what providers and patients can expect with AI scribe, the impact of reducing after-hours documentation for providers, why human editing remains essential with these tools, and how this technology can help put the clinician–patient connection back at the center of care.
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<p>Explore the breakthroughs, bold ideas, and rising innovations reshaping patient care and life science. From new technology to fresh thinking in medicine, discover what's next for healthcare and everyone working to keep us well. Produced by OHSU clinical informatics and Strategic Communications.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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