Mayo Clinic hosts ’Transform2010’ on Sept. 12-14

This post is sponsored by Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation.

ROCHESTER, Minn. – The Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation will host ’Transform2010:Thinking Differently about Health Care,’ the third annual collaborative symposium aimed at changing the way health care is experienced and delivered, on Sept. 12-14 in Rochester, Minn.

Transform2010 will feature 35 internationally recognized speakers who are transforming health care by applying innovation, design thinking, and other bold creative approaches. Their talks will cover themes including Health for All, Emerging Communities, Making Good Decisions, Designing Health, New World-New Technologies, and Designing Transformative Business for Health.

“Many of history’s greatest innovations resulted from the union of disciplines, from conversations that spanned schools of thought. The innovations in health care that help to foster population-level wellness will be no exception,” says David Rosenman, M.D., a Mayo Clinic physician who practices hospital internal medicine. Dr. Rosenman is the director of Mayo Clinic’s Innovation Curriculum and the annual Transform series of collaborative symposia.

The Transform2010 presenters offer a wide variety of expertise in their fields, including Patch Adams, M.D., author and founder of the Gesundheit! Institute; Aneesh Chopra, Chief Technology Officer of The President’s Office of Science and Technology Policy; Jesse Dylan, founder of Lybba.org; Esther Dyson, entrepreneur, journalist and commentator on emerging digital technology, health and health care; Robert Fabricant, Vice President of creative for Frog Design; Jamie Heywood, Co-Founder and Chairman of PatientsLikeMe; Sanne Magnan, M.D., Ph.D., the Minnesota Commissioner of Health, and dozens more. See a complete listing of presenters here.

Two new components have been added for Transform2010:

1. A panel of design and design-thinking experts will offer insights into the real-world triumphs and complications of thinking creatively within health care settings.
2. Selected presentations will be simultaneously delivered in the 3D virtual world of Second Life on the web and on screens placed on the Mayo Clinic campus. People can access the presentations in Second Life by going into Second Life and searching for “Mayo Clinic”. The Mayo Clinic region will be the top hit. Select ’teleport’ and go.

Attendees from 24 states and seven countries participated in Transform 2009; a similar global mix is registered for this year’s event. Ample time for networking and collaboration is built into the symposium schedule to encourage participants to actively explore new ideas to transform and improve the health care experience for patients in the 21st century.

The symposium will be held at the Rochester Civic Center, Taylor Arena. An optional innovation tour of Mayo Clinic and a reception in the Gonda Building on the Mayo Clinic campus will precede the symposium on Sunday, Sept. 12. The symposium requires registration and is open to the public. Additional information about the symposium, including registration and fees, is available at the Transform2010 web site.

The public can follow symposium-related news and innovation at Mayo Clinic at Center for Innovation Blog and symposium discussions on Twitter (#txfm10). Social media will facilitate collaboration among participants before, during and after this exciting and transformational health care event.

The Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation was founded in 2008 to build on the culture of scientific and humanistic innovation that is an integral part of Mayo’s history and practice, and to extend that culture of innovation into the 21st century in transformative new ways. The Center serves as an incubator of innovation within the Mayo Clinic, allowing new ideas and practices to take seed, grow and mature until they are ready for patients. Through the annual Transform symposia and continuous outreach and dialogue, the Center also aims to spur creative collaboration among health care innovators and design thinkers nationally and globally.