Background - Public Access
The Healthcare Innovation Cycle is the foundation for GAITS. It is an established best practice itself, based on CIMIT's 20+ years of experience supporting more than 600 projects and 230 solutions in their unique journeys. Its foundational premise is that innovation in healthcare is a learnable, teachable process. And, like any process, it can be de-risked by executing tasks in the right sequence. Paralleling the DoD’s well-established Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs), the Healthcare Innovation Cycle establishes a sequence of 10 healthcare specific milestones. Each milestone is defined by a core set of deliverables which ensure a balanced perspective from the four domains critical to success in healthcare innovation: Clinical, Market/Business, Regulatory/ Approvals, as well as Technology.
The GAITS platform builds on that foundation to support teams and portfolio managers so that they can learn and use best practices with four interrelated capabilities: