Corporate Collaborations

Accelerating Innovation

Johns Hopkins prides itself on our innovations, and we look to industry to help us accelerate those innovations into the marketplace. We invest our resources on knowledge and information. We seek business partners whose expertise is marketing and technology. And we’ve formed some vital relationships over the years. Below are featured collaborations that have brought the best of Johns Hopkins health care to our community and the world.

FEATURED COLLABORATIONS

“With shared missions to find new models for improving patient care, Walgreens and Johns Hopkins are working together to develop innovative programs that can benefit providers, payers and ultimately the health care system at large, driving cost savings, better access to care and improved health outcomes.”

—Harry Leider, M.D.
Chief Medical Officer, Walgreens

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Johns Hopkins Medicine and Walgreens, the nation’s largest drugstore chain, have a wide-ranging agreement designed to promote collaboration on population-based research and to jointly review and develop protocols to improve patient outcomes. JHM and Walgreens also will together explore the development of new models for improving care for individuals. This will include the creation of new educational and training programs for Walgreens health care service providers. The agreement provides JHM with the opportunity to develop innovative population-based research ideas with a nationwide industry leader who is committed to improving health care outcomes and possesses advanced data systems and a large patient base, prerequisites for such large-scale studies. More specifically:

JHM experts and the Walgreens research teams will develop new ideas for research in disease management, screening and prevention that they will spin off into proposals for funding.
Johns Hopkins faculty will work closely with Walgreen experts to review and improve health care protocols, medical guidelines and algorithms.
JHM will consult on the development of a comprehensive program to expand and enhance the ongoing professional education of the professionals within the Walgreens network by leveraging the capabilities within JHM in the area of onsite and distance education for physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, technicians, pharmacists and others.
JHM and Walgreens will explore the possibility of jointly developing lifestyle, chronic care and disease-specific programs.

“For the past decade, our relationship with Johns Hopkins has leveraged unique capabilities to accelerate the development and distribution of new well-being improvement solutions. For example, the vision, guidance and expertise provided by Johns Hopkins for our Innergy weight management solution has been invaluable, producing an unparalleled weight loss program with proven outcomes.”

—Janna Lacatell
Product Director, Healthways

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Johns Hopkins Medicine faculty has consulted with Healthways (a global health and well-being improvement company) since 2002 to improve their disease management protocols and provide guidance on health care intervention programs and opportunities. Since 2011, JHM and Healthways have collaborated to bring to the commercial marketplace Innergy™, an innovative call center-directed weight-loss program based upon the successful clinical trial led by Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Professor Lawrence J. Appel. Healthways developed the commercial program and sells it as part of their wellness offerings to physicians and health systems, employers, health plans and governments. Hopkins faculty advise Healthways on product design, implementation and enhancements and continuously evaluate the program and its outcomes to ensure quality and effectiveness.

“In this ever-evolving industry, we are thrilled to be working with a leading academic medical center to accelerate transformations that will take healthcare to a new level.”

-Wes Champion, Senior Vice President of Premier Performance Partners, Premier, Inc.

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Johns Hopkins Medicine (JHM) and Premier, Inc. (NASDAQ:PINC) have agreed to collaborate on the development of innovative clinical and operational models designed to improve healthcare quality, safety and value, as well as impact overall wellness.

The five-year agreement combines expertise and assets from JHM and Premier’s industry-leading performance improvement analytics and implement:

Educational and research projects that focus on areas of strategic importance to members of the Premier alliance;
Clinical and other prospective research that leverages the Johns Hopkins Institutional Clinical and Translational Research program; and
Broad, evidence-based analytical health care solutions and services that leverage data from Premier’s integrated technology platform PremierConnect®

Download a copy of the press release here.

Corporate Collaborations

Accelerating Innovation

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