Learn how a nimble innovation organization can support a large healthcare system.
The inertia of a large battleship in motion is powerful. They don’t exactly turn on a dime and you could shut the engines off entirely and they’d drift for miles before stopping.
It’s not just their sheer size that contributes to this; their many systems and large crews operating on decades of experience help keep such a large operation in motion. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but it does make it difficult to pivot quickly and adapt to new circumstances or navigate shallow, uncharted waters.
What if that battleship launched a speedboat that could turn on a dime and speed ahead into shallow waters to report future hazards?
What if it could quickly make its way through a previously unseen channel, exploring its potential to support the battleship’s movements toward new territory? The two could work collaboratively for mutual benefit and success; one established on decades of experience and process—what has happened in the past—and one built for speed and agility—established to pioneer what has yet to be.
Catalyst by Wellstar is the speedboat to Wellstar Health System’s battleship. A small team of innovators, healthcare leaders and entrepreneurs working nimbly in support of one of the largest health systems in the Southeast.
While Wellstar is diligently improving the health and wellbeing of 1.7 million Georgians every year in 9 hospitals, 5 health parks and over 300 office locations, Catalyst is keeping a weathered eye out for new technologies, businesses and innovations that can be tested, scaled and put in practice to support the system.
The past two years have been a difficult reminder of how new healthcare enemies can develop suddenly and profoundly disrupt our everyday life. Catalyst is Wellstar’s intentional effort to look years into the future—speeding ahead and around—to flag potential hazards and identify new, more efficient ways of serving our patients and communities.
Such efforts aren’t without risk. Uncharted waters aren’t for the faint of heart, but we believe not purposefully innovating into tomorrow poses an even greater risk to the fulfillment of Wellstar’s mission.
