MaineHealth Innovation Impact

Since MaineHealth Innovation’s launch in 2020, innovators from all three regions continue to contribute to the dynamic landscape. The breadth of  novel solutions encompass; a screening tool crafted by an Emergency Department psychiatrist to safeguard care team members against workplace violence; a behavioral health treatment strategy for opioid addition from an obstetrics nurse manager; and a novel cancer therapeutic from a scientist at MHIR.  These highlights exemplify the diversity of the novel solutions coming from our 23,000 care team member who are experts in care to potentially solve the unmet clinical care needs.

We are proud of what we’ve accomplished thus far and excited about continuing to extend our impact across the MaineHealth system.

Future of Healthcare Founder Residency

Developed in partnership with MaineHealth, Northern Light Health, and the Maine Venture Fund, the Roux Institute’s Future of Healthcare Founder Residency is a dynamic community collaboration. Our mission is to identify and nurture promising health tech startups that address unmet care needs while fostering a robust local workforce and strengthening Maine’s economy.

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MaineHealth Academic Affairs Annual Report

MaineHealth Innovation builds connections to drive diversity of thought, educates to produce creative problem-solvers, and funds to accelerate ideas. By leveraging the ideas, insights and expertise of all care team members to develop novel solutions to our unmet care needs, we are working together so our communities are the healthiest in America.

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CAPE, LLC. (Collapsible Aerosolized Particle Enclosure), Protects patients and providers exposed to infectious airborne particles

Team: Samir Haydar, MD, Emergency Physician, MMC; Kaitlyn Main, MD, Emergency Resident, MMC; Liz Hamilton, MD, Emergency Resident, MMC; Paul Fitzpatrick, Medical Device Entrepreneur; Paul Tyson, Thermoformed Plastics; David Eagleson, Baker, Co


Teach Me Rx, Creator of Pocket Nodules, a visually engaging learning experience for improved understanding of lung nodules. It may also reduce anxiety and encourage lung health stewardship for patients.

Current Status: The patient education tool is being used in select clinics in the US, Europe, Asia, Africa, Canada and South America as well as at MaineHealth Pen Bay Medical Center ED for explaining incidental pulmonary modules.

Team: Theresa Roelke, Adult Nurse Practitioner, Maine Health Institute of Research Maine Medical Partners


Acuity, LLC. Acuity Behavioral Health was founded by a consortium of the nation’s leading behavioral health organizations, and the company’s product, the BHAI, is a predictive decision-support solution created as a clinical response to the increasingly acute status of mental health patients in inpatient settings. The BHAI provides an accurate and consistent measurement of patient acuity in behavioral healthcare settings to assist nursing staff administrators in planning for next-day staffing and patient needs.

Current Status: Acuity has received approval for implementing at MaineHealth and will begin with training staff at Spring Harbor Hospital to begin utilizing the tool with eventual expansion to all inpatient behavioral health locations across MaineHealth (Southern Maine Health Care, PenBay, MidCoast and MMC).  The tool is currently being utilized at PineRest in Michigan and Cone Health in North Carolina.

Team:  Kelly Barton, President, Maine Behavioral Healthcare, Jason Rosenberg, CNO for Maine Behavioral Healthcare