The Center for Healthcare Innovation as a “Connector”

A recent, terrific Harvard Business Review article co-authored by one of Sanjay’s earlier mentors (Prasad Kaipa) provides excellent insight on the question we are often asked: “What is the Center for Healthcare Innovation”?

The Center for Healthcare Innovation (www.chisite.org) is a non-profit, non-partisan, and independent organization committed to serving as a catalyst for stimulating ideas, people, companies, and institutions to collaborate and achieve excellence in healthcare innovation, particularly the biotechnology, medical device, and pharmaceutical sectors.  The CHI vision is to become the world’s #1 independent thought-leadership institution and “think tank” for the global pharmaceutical and life sciences community.

CHI is filling an important niche in the life sciences/pharmaceutical domain.  Almost all of the existing centers, institutes, or organizations in the biopharma domain fall into one of five categories: (i) captive of a particular political or theoretical orientation, (ii) captive of a particular university, college, and/or faculty member, (iii) captive of a particular firm, industry, or industry group, (iv) bureaucratic government funded entity, (v) vehicle for an individual or group’s for-profit consulting operation.  CHI is none of those; as such, it will fill a needed and unique market niche...