Hi, I'm mtthw.As in Matthew Miller, innovation leader with experience in the Canadian healthcare system.I am attracted to worthy causes and principled teams with the heart and means to achieve the near impossible.
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Matthew Miller is an innovative and people-centred executive leader with 20+ years leading digital transformation, brand and innovation initiatives, and culture change in complex healthcare systems.Skilled in creating value through strategy, high-performance team building, and delivering design-driven, system-focused integrated solutions.Known for advancing human-centred design and embedding culturally safe learning and innovation through successful participatory design event series such as:
And for championing career-changing research and education initiatives for care providers and health leaders through partnerships with:
Leadership
What does health innovation leadership look like?The ability to succeed and fail forward with hypotheses and experimentation, to bring people along the journey to success, and to champion positive change within an environment that is volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA).Below are 4 examples.
1. Code Hack
Annual health hackathon series
View the Code Hack trailer. Volume up!
Role: InstigatorVision: Position Island Health, a BC Health Authority with 30,000 employees, as an innovative place to work, one with the ability to solve real world health challenges.Guiding principle: Anyone can be an innovator.Goal: Design, lead, support, and sustain culture-changing grassroots innovation efforts and practices with patients, staff, and physicians.Driver: Establish an Innovation Lab and hackathon series to foster a culture of innovation.Outcome: Code Hack hackathon and the Innovation Lab are listed as a best practice example in the Government of Canada Nurse Retention Toolkit.
Results: Supported by 40+ volunteers, vendors, academic partners, and community sponsors, Code Hack is an influential and inspiring annual 24-hour health hackathon where up to 100 staff, nurses, patients, physicians, designers, developers, and executives try to convince a team of strangers (who become fast friends) to collaborate on their proposed wicked healthcare problem, then pitch their prototypes to a panel of judges.Winning teams receive cash prizes and are invited to participate in a 6-month start-up learning cohort in an innovation lab setting.
Sponsors and community supporters included:
AWS
BC Ministry of Health
CGI
Camosun Innovates
Doctors of BC
Health Quality BC
Fasken
Michael Smith Foundation
Mural
Nurses & Nurse Practitioners of BC
Patient Voices Network
TELUS & TELUS Health
UVIC Innovation Centre
Victoria Hospitals Foundation
From Island Health's press release:"I love the Code Hack tagline: ‘Everyone is an innovator’,” said Kathy MacNeil, Island Health President and Chief Executive Officer. “We need that now more than ever. Bringing diverse minds together is the way forward and experiencing the energy at Code Hack fills me with hope for the future.”
View the Code Hack participant website.
2. Spark
Role: InstigatorEvent topics included:
- Toxic drug supply crisis in Nanaimo BC
- Alternate Levels of Care (ALC) across BCReference: SPARK Nanaimo: Looking at the Toxic Drug Crisis through a Different Lens"The aim behind the SPARK series... is location, activation and inclusion. Rather than tackling problems in the Innovation Lab or at Code Hack, we’re bringing the Lab’s design-thinking process into communities to explore opportunities with the people who are affected by, and who can most benefit from, potential solutions.” It’s a collaborative approach, which means communities and partners are jointly responsible for moving ideas forward."
Walk With Me
Walk With Me
Research-based harm reduction and knowledge mobilization through cultural mapping, experiential walks, and circle dialogue workshops.
Culturally Committed
Culturally Committed
A year-long program "facilitated by mentors, Elders, and experts in the field of cultural safety and humility, with the intention of supporting providers in expanding their knowledge around cultural practices, barriers to care, and to educate on what safe relationships looks and feels like to Indigenous Peoples."
I'm also a founder at Easy Assembly and an indie musician. Scroll for details.
At Easy Assembly Co, I design cool tees and merch for legendary bands that don't exist. But should. Probably.Anyway, it's about having fun.Example: The Swift Tailors
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Using the stage name mtthw I write, record, and produce original music and stream on the major platforms.Should I? You be the judge.