5 Thing to Know About HI YGK
Happy end of term! We hope everyone is giving themselves time to relax after finishing the semester. Health Innovation Kingston (HI YGK) has exciting initiatives involving problem statements for young entrepreneurs in the health sector. Here are five things to know about HI YGK:
What is HI YGK Health Innovation?
The City of Kingston in collaboration with 7 partners is leading an initiative, Health Innovation Kingston (HI YGK), to encourage health focused start-ups to access resources to develop and grow in Kingston. Our health sector is rich in talent and resources and has often been referred to as a “living lab”.
Problem Statement Initiative:
One of the goals of the HI YGK initiative is to create and develop problem statements that can help lead to innovative advancement within the health sector. What a problem statement is, is a concise description of a problem that needs to be solved. It’s a helpful scoping device, focusing the team on the problem it needs to explore and subsequently solve.
Problem Statement Submissions:
We want you to hear from you! If you are interested in getting involved and sharing your own insights and ideas, help us with this initiative by filling out your own problem statements on the form here https://innovationhubslc.ca/hi-ygk.
Check out this example to help guide your own submission:
Health Innovation Kingston Goals:
Develop an approach/strategy to engage frontline health workers to identify problems
Organize a process to turn the problem information into challenge statements
Align the above processes with DDQIC initiatives for activation of challenge statements
Develop an innovation training prototype/model for current frontline workers and health care students
How do I Learn More?
If you would like to know more about Health Innovation Kingston please contact Dan at dhendry@sl.on.ca or check out https://www.kingstonecdev.com/HIYGK or https://innovationhubslc.ca/hi-ygk for more details.
Problem statements are a helpful device that assists with scoping out solutions for a specific problem. Health Innovation Kingston plans to help frontline workers develop the strategies needed to identify problems, form problem statements, enact those problem statements, and lastly, develop training for current frontline workers and health care students.