Learning and development
Foundations of Medical Technology Innovation
Our capability program, Foundations of Medical Technology Innovation, was developed in partnership with Monash Institute for Medical Engineering (MIME). It’s for anyone with an interest in healthcare innovation, regardless of your background, role, or level of experience. For example, healthcare workers, frontline clinicians, consumers, students or entrepreneurs.
Foundations of Medical Technology Innovation provides an overview of innovation methods using the Stanford BioDesign Process. It includes:
- structured guidance and resources to support you to become a healthcare innovator
- new ways to deliver healthcare or improve the healthcare system
- how you can identify, generate, test, trial and put in place innovative solutions to persistent healthcare problems
- guidance on which entrepreneurial pathways are available to support you to commercialise an innovative solution or product.
Foundations of Medical Technology Innovation program is free.
A certificate of completion will be issued once all modules of the curriculum have been completed.
Partnerships
Safer Care Innovation works closely with partners within healthcare and industry to address healthcare challenges as a collective.
Institute for Healthcare Innovation
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement is a crucial partner and works with the innovation team to deliver the Health Innovators Program (HIP). This program was launched in 2023 and is a bespoke, first of its kind in Victoria, program designed to build capability and address local clinical problems with an innovative lens. Clinicians from health services across the state who are experiencing a challenge in their clinical work come together to collaborate, co-design and identify innovative solutions. The program is based on the IHI Innovation System 90 Day Cycle designed to ensure engagement, fast paced delivery and an outcome after 90 days. In addition we work closely with IHI to deliver further Innovation Capability uplift for the entire sector, see the webinars below.
Australian MedTech Manufacturing Centre
The Australian MedTech Manufacturing Centre – in partnership with Safer Care Victoria – led the Health-Led Manufacturing Innovation Program (HMIP) pilot. The program created new collaborations between clinical and non-clinical staff, researchers, MedTech innovators and manufacturers to identify solutions to health challenges.
The Australian MedTech Manufacturing Centre and Safer Care Victoria engaged 4 partner organisations, who delivered targeted programs.
Aikenhead Centre for Medical Discovery
Medtech Challenge Workshops: Strengthening collaboration and connections between clinicians and industry to improve the likelihood that new products meet the needs of the medical system.
Swinburne University – MedTech Vic Hub
LivingAT Health Innovation Challenge (Swinburne):
- identifying and design products that can be manufactured in Victoria to assist people with diverse ability to live independently and support their health outcomes with local innovations.
- exploring how the built environment might prevent or actively support people experiencing delirium. For more information, read the Delirium Built Environment white paper.
Bendigo Health and University of Melbourne
Regional Innovation Acceleration Program: identifying and supporting early-stage venture creation that addresses unmet medical needs.
Monash University – Monash Institute for Medical Engineering
MedTech Commercialisation Advancement Program: bringing together regulatory and reimbursement specialists, health economists and MedTech manufacturers to accelerate the commercialisation of eligible projects.