The Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation will host Transform, a collaborative symposium on innovations in health care experience and delivery, Sept. 13–15, 2009. It will feature nationally recognized speakers on topics focused on innovation methodology and innovations in health care delivery models, including Web-based tools. The center’s work builds on a century of Mayo Clinic’s experience implementing innovative ways to deliver better health care experiences to patients.
The symposium will feature over 20 presenters, including keynote speaker Clayton Christenson, D.B.A., professor at Harvard Business School and author of the best-selling book Innovator’s Prescription. Also speaking will be innovators from IDEO, Kaiser Permanente, Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Doblin, Organized Wisdom, MIT, American Well System, DiabetesMine, the Health2.0 Conference and Mayo Clinic.
David Rosenman, M.D., director of Mayo Clinic’s innovation curriculum, provides an overview of the symposium’s goals:
For more information or to register to attend, go to the symposium site. Follow the progress of the symposium planning through the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation blog, or on Twitter using the hashtag #transformhealth09. See also the symposium Facebook event.



