Hartford HealthCare has been named to the Fortune list of America’s Most Innovative Companies for 2023. This prestigious award is presented by Fortune and Statista Inc., the world-leading statistics portal and industry ranking provider.
Over the past year, Hartford HealthCare has propelled innovative partnerships with key stakeholders. Hartford HealthCare partnered with Google Cloud to change access to health care, teamed up with the Morningside Group, One Medical to improve coordinated care, as well as created a partnership with CT Innovations to support startups in Connecticut.
“This honor is a tribute to the vision and determination of colleagues across Hartford HealthCare. Clinicians and researchers, caregivers at bedsides and the partners in laboratories are working together to break through barriers that can make care delivery too slow, ineffective, inaccessible or expensive,” said Jeffrey A. Flaks, president & chief executive officer, Hartford HealthCare. “At Hartford HealthCare, we are so committed to transforming healthcare that we’ve created an Innovation Center. We have partnered with the world’s best thinkers — including game-changers like Google Cloud. We invite and work with inventors and investors from around the globe to create change and improve care.”
Fortune and Statista selected America’s Most Innovative Companies 2023 based on product innovation, process innovation and innovation culture. For the evaluation of the innovation culture and the internal view of process innovation, Statista deployed online surveys where employees could score their own company on a scale system. For the evaluation of the external view of process innovation as well as product innovation, Statista surveyed experts in various fields – from recruiters to management consultants and patent attorneys. For the evaluation of the IP portfolio, Statista cooperated with LexisNexis PatentSight and used their platform to analyze the quantity and value of a company’s patents. The 300 US-companies with the highest score were awarded as America’s Most Innovative Companies 2023.