With a new look and improved functionality, the ACI’s Innovation Exchange is a collaborative online space for health professionals to share and access hundreds of healthcare projects from a variety of clinical areas and care settings across NSW Health.
First launched in 2014, the Innovation Exchange provides a place to learn, share and promote local innovation and improvement projects. A recent makeover has made it easier for health staff to promote their own work, find relevant initiatives, and to learn from and collaborate with colleagues.
The Innovation Exchange champions innovation and improvement projects, highlighting those that can be adapted to suit local health challenges in other parts of NSW and reducing duplication. It provides a unique opportunity for health staff to learn from the experiences of others; to transform health services; and improve health outcomes for patients.
What can you find on the Innovation Exchange?
- The updated search engine helps you to navigate and search hundreds of innovative projects by topic (including mental health, patient safety, virtual care and consumer engagement), care setting, organisation, awards and more.
- A clear outline of each project to help you understand its goals and outcomes, and whether it may help to solve a similar challenge in other areas of the health system.
- The relevant local health districts (LHDs), services and ‘lead innovators’ behind each initiative are highlighted, with project leads able to link directly to their LinkedIn profile.
How to share your project
If you have designed or implemented a NSW Health project that aims to improve healthcare, the Innovation Exchange is the ideal platform to share your work with a wider audience and highlight the efforts of your project team.
Projects can be submitted when they are in the planning or implementation stages, or when they are completed.
To be featured on the Innovation Exchange, your project should:
- identify and address a recognised and unmet need
- be either a new resource; a new procedure or process; an improvement to an existing service; or the development of a new service
- be a current project developed in the last 12 to 18 months, or currently in development.
Resources including a Project Summary Template and Contribution Toolkit will help you organise your material and follow the necessary steps to share your project.