Main Line Health now offers frontline staff a pathway to develop devices that address challenges in care delivery and enhance patient care, writes Nicole Leonard for WHYY.
Several products developed through the program have already reached the market, such as a limb support device created by registered nurse Colleen Rogers. It is made up of lightweight, stackable blocks that help nurses and therapists stabilize a patient’s leg or arm for treatment. While the products may not be flashy, health care workers said they can greatly improve the healthcare experience for both patients and providers.
What sets the innovation pipeline at Main Line apart is that it involves practicing health care workers who have firsthand knowledge of the challenges providers and patients encounter.
“The fact that we can give them the opportunity to bring their ideas forward and then actually get to a full invention, it’s a super cool thing,” said Barbara Wadsworth, executive vice president and chief operating officer at Main Line Health.
Read more about the Main Line Health program in WHYY.
