Healthcare

Today’s inexpensive network connectivity and computational capability, coupled with vast data feeds for logistics, condition, suppliers, provides an unparalleled promise for manufacturing excellence in today’s digital transformation in healthcare. Key to harnessing this promise is a mastery of a number of key attributes which include:

• Smarter Automation and Converged Networks
• Tighter/Smarter Supply Chains
• Data Security
• Analytics/Big Data
• Mobility/Location/Video Information/Collaboration
• XaaS for the supply chain enterprise software requirements

Many of these areas above include recent advances in the Internet of Things, and also provide significant opportunities for innovative healthcare.  By effectively harnessing NBV’s Innovation Kaleidoscope™ methodology to define an appropriate strategy and appropriate technologies to innovate, each of the companies we work with accelerates their transformation in their ecosystem.

Our pragmatic approach to innovation targets healthcare challenges defining solutions that are feasible, viable and desirable in this ecosystem.  After gathering an initial thorough assessment of the forces that influence innovation in the organization, we describe their characteristics and interplay, to create a more fluid process to accelerate adoption and to facilitate future innovations.  

We understand that implementing a digital health strategy is never as easy as ‘plug-n-play’.  Our Innovation Kaleidoscope™ methodology looks at:

• Defining the top priorities and challenges in the organization.
• Assessing innovation maturity in the ecosystem, which includes measurement of the critical forces driving this innovation.
• Provide recommendations and operational plans to empower organizations leaders leverage innovative companies to further objective and clear business goals.

NBV is a venture strategy firm that invests in innovative companies adding our senior team’s operational skills and industry experience, and working closely with entrepreneurs and lead innovators to improve their feasibility, viability, and accelerate growth in their target markets.  We ultimately connect global innovation hubs with their target ecosystems throughout the world, and leverage our Innovation Kaleidoscope™ methodology to define an ecosystem-driven strategy to deliver innovation to the market.

Digital health’s role in innovation of Healthcare was firmly established with the EHR integration. Now with cloud computing, analytics, input sensors, artificial intelligence Digital Health is forging forward to solve many of our healthcare challenges.  Natural Bridges Ventures’ team has faced these challenges first-hand over the past decade, and has leveraged technology as well as process improvement techniques to effectively improve outcomes in healthcare organizations while expanding the reach and deployment of such diverse innovations.