Innovation Pipeline Desk / Health Systems Desk
HEALTH SYSTEMS AND LIFE SCIENCES
Innovation Pipeline for Health Systems and Life Sciences: Pilots a Clinical Owner Will Sign
Another digital health vendor emails the innovation inbox. It does not map to the patient flow problem the COO funded, the one pilot you did start is still waiting on security review, and the clinical lead who asked for it has stopped coming to the meeting.
The Health Systems Desk writes each problem with a clinical or operational owner, scores digital health candidates against the eight rules, and writes pilot briefs that name the data path and the security reviewer before a pilot starts.
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Health Systems Desk
What the Health Systems Desk works on first
These are the problems this desk hears most from health systems and life sciences. Your Mandate Brief sets the real list; each one gets a named owner before any candidate is scored.
| Problem the desk hears first | What the desk returns |
|---|---|
| Patient flow and discharge | Candidates that run on your bed board or EHR data, scored on public production evidence and the data they touch. |
| Clinical documentation load | Candidates with a named health system customer, a yes or no success test and a named clinical reviewer. |
| Revenue cycle and prior authorization | Candidates mapped to one payer workflow, with the cost ceiling your finance owner set before scoring. |
| Life sciences process and research operations | Candidates for one enterprise process, scored on validated use and the quality system they have to fit. |
Same four parts on every desk
How the Health Systems Desk works
PART 01Mandate Brief
Your mandate rewritten as three to five problem statements, each with the business owner who asked for it, the budget line it draws on and the date it matters by.
Check: every problem statement names an owner who agreed to it in writing.
PART 02Scout Sweep
Startups, vendors and internal ideas found against each problem statement, each with a dated link to public evidence that it runs in production somewhere.
Check: every candidate row has a source link and the date it was read.
PART 03Screen Scorecard
Every candidate scored against the eight rule rulebook below and marked pass, hold or drop, with the rule and the evidence behind each mark.
Check: every mark cites a rule number and a source.
PART 04Pilot Briefs
The strongest candidates written up as one-page pilot briefs: the success test, the internal owner, the cost ceiling, the security path and the kill date.
Check: each brief has a success test the business owner can mark yes or no.
What correct looks like
The Screen Rulebook: eight rules every candidate has to pass
Named owner of mistakes: Mike Rodgers. If a row marked pass fails a rule on facts that were public when it was scored, it is rescored or replaced within five business days at no charge, and the miss is counted in the next monthly report.
- It maps to one written problem statement with a named business owner.
- It has public evidence of production use, such as a named customer, a case study or a filing, dated within the last 24 months.
- Its pilot cost fits under the ceiling the owner set before scoring began.
- Its data path is known: what data it touches, and which team reviews security.
- It has a success test the business owner can mark yes or no when the pilot ends.
- It has a kill date, set before the pilot starts.
- Someone inside is named to run it after the pilot if it works.
- Every mark cites its source and the date it was read. Nothing passes on a vendor's say-so alone.
What stays with you
What your people keep owning
- Your innovation leader owns the mandate and signs off the problem statements.
- Your business owners decide which pilots start and which get killed. The desk recommends; it never decides.
- Procurement, legal and security run their own reviews. The desk hands them the brief and the evidence, not a verdict.
- You own every vendor relationship. The desk never contacts a vendor in your name without your written OK, and every file is yours to keep.
Not included
- Not a venture fund. The desk does not invest in, or take equity or fees from, any company it scores.
- No pay to play. No vendor, startup or platform pays to be listed, scored or recommended.
- Not an ideation workshop, a hackathon or an innovation lab you have to staff.
- No build. The desk does not build, integrate or run the solutions it scores.
- No legal, security or procurement verdicts. Those teams run their own reviews.
- Not a startup database subscription. Output is documents and a board in your own tools.
Straight answers
Questions health systems and life sciences teams ask.
- Can the desk work with our EHR and security review process?
- Yes, as inputs. Every pilot brief names the data the candidate touches and the team that reviews it, so your security and privacy reviewers see the path before the pilot starts. The desk does not connect to your EHR.
- Who owns a pilot on the clinical side?
- A clinical or operational leader you name, on every problem statement. Rule 1 drops any candidate without one, and Rule 7 needs someone named to run it after the pilot.
- Does the desk handle patient data?
- No. The desk works from public evidence and the documents you choose to share, and needs no patient data or production access for the Health Check or the Sprint.
Start with one mandate
Request a Pipeline Health Check.
The Health Check report is yours to keep whether or not you go further. Sign the Sprint within 30 days of the report and the $2,500 comes off the Sprint in full.
Health Check $2,500. Pipeline Sprint $12,000. Then $3,500 a month.
The Health Check is a fixed price, returned 10 business days after the kickoff call. The Sprint runs six weeks. The Run is month to month with 30 days notice, and covers 10 new scored candidates a month, board upkeep and the monthly report.