LAUNCH Wake Forest University Center for Healthcare Innovations

LAUNCH is the Wake Forest University School of Medicine Center for Healthcare Innovation’s annual innovation incubator, competition and accelerator program. The weekend-long event brings together leading industry experts across the Atrium Health enterprise to not only compete for funding and personnel support on their project, but also to network and collaborate with individuals across the system.

First established in 2022, the main goals of LAUNCH is to identify and accelerate the development of solutions pertaining to various issues across the healthcare system. Each year, a theme is chosen that best fits both the efforts by the Center for Healthcare Innovation and its sponsors but also the larger enterprise.

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LAUNCH 2024 

Friday, October 11-Sunday, Oct. 13 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Theme: To find innovative solutions and enablement strategies to impact patient reported outcomes related to healthcare access specifically getting timely and needed care. Innovative solutions need to be focused on at least one of the following areas:

  1. Getting Timely Care, Appts & Information: Refers to a practice’s ability to quickly provide care after recognizing a need. The timelier a provider, the better their patients’ health outcomes — and levels of engagement.
  2. Getting Needed Care: The Getting Needed Care measure evaluates patients' satisfaction with how easy it was for them to get needed care and see specialists. This is self-reported by patients and collected annually as part of the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers Systems (CAHPS®) Survey.

Event Timeline

Oct 11 – Oct 13, 2024: Launch Finals
Nov 2024 – June 2025: Launch 2024 Innovation Accelerator
July 2025: Launch 2024 Innovation Implementation

Launch 2024 Grand Prize 
The winning team will be awarded funding and support to develop and pilot their idea. Representatives from the CHI and Advocate Population Health Organization will provide support for the teams as needed, with planned implementation of the project in July 2025. 

Questions? Send us an email at CHI@wakehealth.edu