Innovation
Opening November 2024 – the new Royal Perth Hospital Innovation Hub, part of the East Metropolitan Health Service (EMHS)
The Hub, located in Wellington Street, Perth, connects EMHS clinicians and innovators to industry professionals and the broader innovation landscape, to support our people to develop their innovative ideas the for the improved health of all Western Australians.
The Hub provides a space for professional development, collaborative co-working, and even prototype development of new medical devices and technologies through the new Makers Space, equipped with digital design and 3D printing capabilities.
Other services offered at the hub include:
- A comprehensive idea capture and management program underpinned by project management support to ensure staff with game-changing health ideas are supported to turn their ideas into a trial and then translate them into the new normal in our WA hospitals.
- A purpose-built virtual reality lounge to continue exploration of the use of VR technologies in hospital services, for example in clinical training and enhancement of the patient experience.
- An exciting calendar of staff professional development and industry networking events that bring together the clinical expertise of the hospital with the problem-solving drivers in WA industry.
To discuss the RPH Innovation Hub or to book an industry tour, please contact the EMHS Innovation team at EMHS.Innovation@health.wa.gov.au
The establishment of the hub and our commitment to innovation is just another compelling reason to join our workforce.
Innovation is the invention and implementation of transformational ideas, which leads to our vision of healthy people and amazing care. We are dedicated to using best practice innovation methodologies, such as problem reframing, human centred design thinking, and behavioural insights to support our staff to find and solve the most complex problems being faced.
Explore some of EMHS’s leading innovations:
Meaningful collaborations are a key aspect of successful innovation. Engaging with people and organisations with different experiences, perspectives, and expertise helps us in solving some of the most complex problems we face as a health service.
Our previous collaborations:
- Providing challenges for the WA Data Science Innovation Hub (external link) Health Hackathon
- Partnerships with local high schools to participate in the annual EMHS Youth Innovation Think Tank
- The University of Western Australia
- Curtin University
- Vantari VR
- WA Health
- South Metropolitan Health Service
- North Metropolitan Health Service
- WA Country Health Service
- Child and Adolescent Health Service
- Department of Health
- Health Support Services
- MTPConnect WA Life Sciences Innovation Hub (external link)
- Perth BioDesign
If you have an enquiry about how you can get involved in innovation at EMHS, we’d like to hear from you. Please contact us EMHS.Innovation@health.wa.gov.au.
We know our staff are our greatest resource and we encourage all staff to be innovators.
We support our staff to further their understanding and foster a culture of innovation through our flagship Innovation Champions program. The Innovation Champions program provides training in three innovation methods:
- problem reframing
- human centred design thinking
- behavioural insights.