Tackling the Last Mile of an Innovation Project

For a digital health startup looking to be deployed in a hospital, it can seem like finally landing that big hospital pilot is the culmination of months or years of effort. But hospitals and startups alike quickly learn that it’s just the beginning of a difficult process, and that many pilots die without being turned into full scale deployments.

Not only that, but sometimes pilots die even if the technology or intervention was working well, because the enterprise or the startup, or both, didn’t have the tools to make the transition from pilot to scale.