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Center for Pediatric Innovation

Bringing Innovations to Life

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Center for Pediatric Innovation

Bringing Innovations to Life

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The Center for Pediatric Innovation was established in 2015 to help bring Children's Mercy innovations to life. The Center's goals are to advance our mission, build our reputation and create new sustainability models/revenue streams. Children's Mercy collaborates with global strategic partners to deliver solutions that create a world of wellbeing for all children.

Children’s Mercy has been at the forefront of innovation since our founding sisters Alice Berry Graham and Katharine Berry Richardson felt compassion for Kansas City’s neediest children. Innovation starts with empathy and solving for deep needs, which continues to be at the heart of the employees at Children’s Mercy driving them to innovate new solutions to transform the health, wellbeing and potential of children.

 

Our innovation process

 

Road map with three main points labeled along the road: need validation, solution validation and market validation. Smaller points are plotted on the road and are labeled as such: identify the need, propose the idea, assess the market position, explore value stream options, prototype the solution, validate the solution, validate the value stream, implement sustainability model, execute go to market plan, and measure success.

Our innovation process consists of three important phases. These phases include need, solution and market validation. The Innovation team at Children's Mercy has experience in consumer goods, product and software development, intellectual property management, and go-to-market strategy.

Children’s Mercy is interested in collaborating with start-ups, entrepreneurs and other entities to develop solutions that improve the health and wellbeing of children.

In addition, Children’s Mercy wants to engage with companies that can prototype, develop and provide other competencies to help us deliver our solutions to the pediatric market.

Meet the Pediatric Innovation Center team.

Children's Mercy innovations

 

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Innovation highlight

Home screen of the CHAMP (Cardiac High Acuity Monitoring Program) app.
The CHAMP (Cardiac High Acuity Monitoring Program) app is a dedicated, multi-disciplinary team built to meet the needs of babies born with single-ventricle heart disease.
Image of one of the screens in the HearPlay app. The screen reads, "Please select a HearPlay test: Twelve Image SRT, Mine Image SRT, Speech Awareness Test, CPA Scenes, End Test Session."
The HearPlay app will assist audiologists in keeping children motivated and engaged in Conditioned Play Audiometry (CPA) testing.
Image of one of the screens in the PedsGuide app. The screen reads, “Select a decision support tool: Resuscitation (Emergency Life Support and Burn Fluid Management), Asthma (Acute Asthma Exacerbation Management), Febrile Infant (Infant Sepsis Evaluation and Risk Stratification), Antibiotics (Coming Soon), BRUE (Coming Soon).”
PedsGuide helps provide decision support to health care providers and emergency medical services personnel for children facing acute illness.
Boy wearing a purple apron that reads “Cooking with Keto Kids.” He is holding pasta in one hand and a spoon in his other.
Cooking with Keto Kids provides dynamic content and kid-tested, family-friendly recipes that are customized to the exact ratio of a prescribed keto diet.
Fruit Friends toys: an orange, a slice of watermelon and a pear. The orange and the pear have eyes and a smiling mouth. Packaging reads, “Fruit Friends, Nourish the Senses, Fat Brain Toy Co.”
Fruit Friends, three fruit shaped toys, bring nourishing play to the kitchen table with each toy featuring a different sensory experience.

Use the links below to learn more about these five innovations:

Partner with us

Led by Dawn Wolff, Vice President of Strategy, Innovation, and Partnerships, Center for Pediatric Innovation takes a collaborative approach to innovation by building strategic alliances. If you'd like to partner with us, please use the button below to send us an email.

Innovation in research


Visit our Health Care Innovation page to learn more about the research innovation being done at the Children's Mercy Research Institute.

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