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Shaping The Industry Together
Now in its third year, the Accenture HealthTech Innovation Challenge will once again bring startups, life sciences companies and healthcare organizations together to tackle the world’s biggest health issues. Scroll down to see our schedule of regional round locations around the globe and updated themes.
The HealthTech Innovation Challenge is part of Accenture’s broader HealthTech Innovation program which will also include acceleration and venture opportunities, innovation labs, and more. Through it we support technologies and drive creative solutions to improve the way people access and manage healthcare.
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Themes
We want to solve some of the biggest issues in healthcare.
How do we keep the population healthy?
WELLNESS & PREVENTION
- Minimizing hospital visits for consumers (patients, caregivers, or families)
- Care plan adherence
- Accurate health information and services at the right time
- Wellness/Lifestyle Management
- Remote care delivery models
- Wearables
- Social determinates of health
- Better education
How can digital health solutions improve patient outcomes?
DIGITAL HEALTH SOLUTIONS
- Telehealth
- Digital Clinical Trials
- Research & Discovery
- Therapeutic Models
- Enhanced models of care
- AI
- Blockchain
- IOT
- Digital pills
- 3D Printing
- Drones
- Real-world evidence and/or analytics on combined non-traditional data sets
How can we improve healthcare delivery for the patient?
HEALTHCARE SERVICES
- Office/Patient Management
- Cost Transparency/payments
- Strategic sourcing
- Private and secure health records
- Care Coordination
- Enterprise workflow
- Underserved or remote populations
- Training
- Ecosystem collaborations
The opportunity to identify and engage with cutting-edge startups with a focus on solving healthcare and life sciences problems
Network with peers, investors and leading influencers
Access to the StartUp Health Festival (invite only) during the JP Morgan Healthcare Investor conference in San Francisco
Media exposure as a partner to the program
The opportunity to build deeper relationships with dynamic industry-shapers and industry innovators; including collaboration and co-innovation
Practical experience with Accenture’s Innovation Architecture and design-thinking approach
Key Dates
Selected applicants will be invited to compete in one of our regional rounds in Sydney, Tokyo, Dublin or Boston where they will be judged by an esteemed panel of leading life sciences and healthcare company executives. The finalists will be invited to compete in San Francisco at the Startup Health Festival on Monday, January 7, 2019.
June 30, 2018 Accepting submissions
September 1, 2018 Submission closes
October 1, 2018 Shortlist established
November Pitching rounds
Tokyo, Japan November 1
Sydney, Australia November 15
Dublin, Ireland November 15
Boston, Massachusetts November 29
January 7, 2019 Innovation Champions selected at the Startup Health Festival in San Francisco
Judging Panel
- Adventist
- Aetna
- Aetna International
- Agency for Clinical Innovation
- Airtree Ventures
- Anthem
- Ascension
- Asklepios
- Astellas
- AstraZeneca
- Australian Institute of Health Innovation
- Bayer
- BCBS Michigan
- Better Care Victoria
- BMS
- Boehringer Ingelheim
- Bupa
- Cardinal Health
- Cochlear
- Children's Mercy Hospital
- Customer Lab
- CVS Health
- Daiichi Sankyo
- Eisai
- Fairview
- Florida Blue
- Florida Hospital
- GE Healthcare Japan
- Geisinger Health
- GSK
- HCSC
- Henry Ford Health System
- Houston Methodist
- HUS
- IBC
- Med Advisor
- Medibank Health Solutions
- Medavie Blue Cross
- MedStar Institute for Innovation
- Medtronic
- Merck/MSD
- MetroHealth
- National Disability Insurance Agency
- NHS England
- ONB
- Opportunities NB
- Orlando Health
- Partners Health Care
- Pfizer
- Primary Health Care
- Ramsay Health Care
- Santen Pharmaceutical
- Scan Healthplan
- Shionogi
- Stella
- SVA
- Takeda
- UCB
- University of Penn
- University of Hospitals
- Wellcare
2018 INNOVATION CHAMPION
The 2018 HealthTech Innovation Challenge Innovation Champion Nanowear's Co-founder and CEO, Venk Vardan, discusses the connected self, and its impact on the future of healthcare.
About Accenture
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