Healthcare Innovation Exhibition

Teams pitching their ideas to improve patient safety.

A semester-long project at Arizona State University’s (ASU) Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation culminated at the Health Innovation Exhibition November 17, with over 700 students showcasing their innovations. Through an inaugural partnership with the Patient Safety Technology Challenge, with funding from the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative, students focused their innovative efforts on a singular issue of care related to patient safety.

At the exhibition, student groups showcased their posters to a panel of judges, who selected the leading team from each of the five patient safety categories presented to students to ideate around: medication errors, patient care, procedural/surgical safety, infections, and diagnostic errors. These top teams subsequently pitched their posters, following which a grand prize winner was chosen.

The idea “Telegaming Doc,” won a $1,000 grand prize for their idea which seeks to reduce miscommunication between patients and providers that can lead to poor care through a game-like, online self-evaluation tool. “Telegaming Doc” team members included Sara Peermohammed, Margo Johnson, Elena Zazueta, and Karla Camarillo. Four other top teams received $500 each.

One of the judges, Val Modean, a nurse with 40 years of experience across health care, shared how impressed she was with the students’ pitches. Overall she said, “It was so much fun! I hadn’t done anything like this before.”

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