Wellbe Announces Webinar on Innovation in Orthopedics

Madison, WI, February 25, 2015 (Newswire.com) - OrthoServiceLine.com, a free resource to the orthopedic community sponsored by Wellbe, is hosting a complimentary webinar featuring Mark Angelo, Vice President, Innovation & Business Development for Hospital for Special Surgery, titled “Building an Orthopedic Innovation Engine.”

The external healthcare environment is changing rapidly and providers are under increasing pressure to innovate with increasing speed and efficiency.

Be it experimenting with new care delivery models to improve care coordination, redesigning workflows to enhance efficiency, or developing new products that improve clinical outcomes, hospitals and their service lines are looking for effective ways to harness the creative power of physicians and employees to solve problems that matter. However, few organizations innovate in an orderly, reliable way.

Great ideas remain captive in the heads of physicians and employees and one-off attempts to spur innovation through “hack-a-thons” and “pitch days” prove disappointing. As an academic medical center and a world leader in orthopedics, Hospital for Special Surgery has a long history of results-oriented innovation.

In this webinar, Angelo will share:
– HSS’ systematic approach for driving innovation
– Strategies for generating new insights and developing novel solutions
– Processes for piloting and testing new ideas
– Guiding principles for creating a culture of innovation
– Advice on how to build your very own innovation infrastructure

Building an Orthopedic Innovation Engine
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 4, 2015 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST
Cost: Complimentary

OrthoServiceLine.com is a free resource for orthopaedic service line leaders designed to give them actionable insights and ideas to grow and streamline their programs. OrthoServiceLine.com is sponsored by Wellbe, Inc.

About the Speaker:
Mark Angelo is Vice President, Innovation & Business Development for Hospital for Special Surgery. Mark joined HSS in 2009 and has held various senior management positions at the Hospital across operations, strategy and business development. As Vice President, Innovation & Business Development, Mark is responsible for advancing hospital strategic priorities related to quality and efficiency, innovation, growth and diversification. One of his key responsibilities includes leading the Operational Excellence program, a hospital-wide initiative that leverages industrial engineering principles to maximize quality and efficiency. Mark also leads the HSS Innovation Center whose mission is to support the development and commercialization of early-stage technologies and solutions.

Prior to joining HSS, Mark worked as a management consultant for Monitor Group where he specialized in operations strategy and organizational design. Mark holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Toronto and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.

About Wellbe
Wellbe, the inventor of the cloud-based Guided CarePath®, works with health providers to engage patients as partners in their episodes of care. Our Guided CarePaths empower patients to learn and take the actions required to achieve better outcomes at lower costs. High-performing hospitals use Wellbe’s Connected Care solutions to improve the experience and efficiency of helping patients to succeed with their medical treatments and surgeries.