• The mission of the Center for Innovation is to transform the experience and delivery of health care.

  • The center offers a unique space within Mayo Clinic to rapidly iterate new ideas into the practice.

  • "Health care can no longer continue doing business as usual." — Douglas L. Wood, M.D., medical director of the Center for Innovation

  • The center follows a usercentric approach from discovery to implementation, applying an interdisciplinary team and research methods to reveal unmet needs.

  • "Perhaps the ability … to see what the patient desires and needs comes through the sixth sense we call intuition, which in turn comes from wide experience and deep sympathy for a devotion to the patient …" — Dr. Charles H. Mayo

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Transforming the Experience and Delivery of Health Care

The Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation (CFI) is using a patient-centered focus to transform the experience and delivery of health care for patients everywhere. The CFI team develops ground-breaking solutions and facilitates the application of these discoveries in the practice of medicine. History of CFI.

Mayo Clinic has a history of investing in innovation. We work diligently to bring innovative practices to our patients. CFI's patient-centered mission is to transform the way health care is experienced and delivered.

Mayo's practice of innovation is not new. It began in the late 1800s when Drs. William and Charles Mayo founded their medical practice around an innovative concept — the integrated team practice. They knew then what we continue to acknowledge today: Innovation doesn't happen by chance.

With three guiding platforms and a multidisciplinary team, the center is guided by a patient-focused mission, goals, methodology and approach, CFI is developing innovative ideas into practical solutions — transforming how patients receive health care.

Today, business evolves at a rapid pace. Innovation is more critical than ever. Health care is not an exception. Over the past 60 years there have been significant advances in medicine and there is clearly an opportunity to do more. What we do.