Accenture has opened applications for the third annual Accenture HealthTech Innovation Challenge. The challenge hopes to enhance people’s access to healthcare. It gathers startups to address some of the world’s biggest health challenges, including access, quality, and affordability-of-care options.
The three categories for the 3rd Accenture HealthTech Innovation Challenge are:
- Keeping a population health through wellness and prevention. This category focuses on minimizing hospital visits; wellness/lifestyle management; remote care delivery models; social determinates of health; and better education.
- Using digital health solutions to deliver better patient outcomes. This category focuses on delivering the best outcomes by leveraging digital health solutions, including telehealth; artificial intelligence; digital clinical trials; blockchain; internet of things; drones; digital pills; 3D printing; and real-world evidence.
- Improving healthcare delivery for the patient. This category focuses on healthcare services and efficient healthcare through office/patient management; cost transparency/payments; strategic sourcing; health records; care coordination; and enterprise workflow.
Key criteria that applications should address include solution innovation, solution design quality, disruptive business model, the potential impact on patient outcomes, and solution scalability.
Benefits
- 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.
Emerging healthcare technology innovators and disruptors are encouraged to apply for the program by clicking here now through Sept. 1.
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