“ We believe that a smooth collaboration between developers , medical teams and healthcare organisations is the key for success when developing clinical technologies ”
DR . MICHAL GUINDY HEAD OF INNOVATION AND VENTURES
Rabina describes the role of RISE as " the oil in the engine of our organisation . We spark new innovation activities , and we run them until we can hand them over to another player in the organisation , which could be a clinical player or a tech player ."
RISE ’ s aim is to ensure collaborations with R & D partners are smooth . As Rabina explains , sometimes it ' s difficult for a healthcare organisation , especially a hospital , to collaborate with a young company or with R & D units , because they work in completely different frameworks . " We sometimes own a project and take it end-to-end , and sometimes we ' re just holding the hand of someone else in the organisation who owns the project . But basically , we ' re the ones that are pushing the collaborations , and we do it because we want to make our clinical environments more accessible for technology developers and therefore provide better healthcare services ."
Dr . Guindy explains that physicians at Assuta are coming from different medical education and experience backgrounds and therefore tend to bring different approaches to a procedure in the same department . ” The potential for medical R & D that derives from our way of work is tremendous . Developers working in our institutions are gaining
68 March 2022