Mark E. Coticchia is Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer of the Henry Ford Health System(HFHS) in Detroit, Michigan. He leads Henry Ford Innovations, a unit that position’s HFHS to adapt to the rapidly changing world of technology and consumer-impacted health care that will drive the future direction of medicine.
Mr. Coticchia is responsible for leveraging the System’s intellectual and
clinical assets through technology commercialization, venture funding, product development, and corporate partnerships. In his role he also oversees the Henry Ford Innovation Institute, the Davidson
Center for Digital Health as well as the Henry Ford Health System’s global initiatives.
The business of transferring medical ideas into the marketplace is changing. Medical “know-how” is starting to be considered as valuable to the U.S. health care system as are new medicines. Compared to 10 or 20 years ago, today’s clinicians are becoming inventors who develop their ideas quickly. This modern way of inventing and speeding innovations […]