Innovation Without Boundaries

Investment in innovation at Rush has limitless potential to improve the way care is designed and delivered — transforming your experience and your outcomes.

Today's most significant opportunities to innovate health care all center on access. Your ability to digitally access your health records, seamlessly coordinate appointments, communicate with your care team and more. Your clinicians’ ability to access actionable insights from a sea of outcomes data to tailor your care. And our investigators’ ability to produce early-stage research data to access additional funding and fuel the next major breakthroughs. 

Innovation can move quickly only when there is funding to support it. With your partnership, Rush will pioneer medical advances and define new standards for your best health care. Will you join us?

The Boundaries We’ll Break

Together, we can fuel innovation across Rush, changing lives and shaping the field of health care. Here is how we can partner to accelerate medical advancement:

• Rush’s Digital Strategy: Create a best-in-class digital experience that streamlines care for patients and fully integrates with operational tools to attract and retain vital health care talent.
• Core Laboratories: Invest in staffing, facilities and technologies to help teams across Rush answer urgent, life-changing questions across cancer, health equity, neuroscience, bone and joint, and many other specialties.
• Data Science and Analytics: Expand our ability to harness patient outcomes and public health data to fuel research and deliver increasingly precise and effective treatments.
• Pilot and Innovation Awards: Give Rush’s expert faculty and staff the startup support to test their ideas in their earliest, most difficult-to-fund stages — incubating and growing breakthrough advancements to transform care.

Why Rush?

• When the Chicago Department of Public Health called on us during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, our data science experts established a hub to coordinate data collection from 14 hospitals treating over 400,000 patients. Rush created the dashboards that were pivotal to a citywide response, and CDPH continues to rely on our data science expertise today.
• Rush has more than 150 active grants from the National Institutes of Health — a prestigious achievement that serves as a testament to the innovation and expertise of our researchers.
• Today’s medical research requires access to specialized instruments and complex technologies most individual labs can’t afford. The collaborative approach of Rush Core Laboratories has proved invaluable, providing both Rush and outside investigators with access to facilities that offer leading-edge tools, equipment and technologies.