Digital Health Ventures
Partnering With Innovators to Transform Patient Care
Understanding the Digital Health Partnership Submission Process
What This Submission Is
- An entry point into UMass Memorial's innovation and funding ecosystem
- A structured triage to assess strategic alignment and readiness
- A process to route your solution to the right internal teams
Note
- We thoughtfully review all submissions and will respond to every one.
- We route qualified, strategically aligned opportunities to the appropriate next step.
What This Submmission Is Not
- A guarantee of funding or pilot opportunities
- A public pitch competition
- A one-size-fits-all accelerator program
Who We Are: Evaluation Committee
Leaders across the organization will review applications. They represent the disciplines responsible for adopting, implementing, and scaling digital health solutions.
- Clinical Leadership: Physicians and care team leaders focused on patient impact, clinical workflows, and outcomes
- Quality and Clinical Informatics: Experts in evidence-based practice, data governance, and interoperability
- Information Services: Technology leaders overseeing security, architecture, and implementation readiness
- Finance: Executives responsible for financial sustainability, ROI, and systemwide alignment
- Transformation and Operations: Leaders driving change management, operating model integration, and enterprise scalability
- Program Management: Teams accountable for governance, execution planning, and delivery oversight
What We Look For in Digital Health Innovation
Strong submissions typically demonstrate:
- A clearly defined health care problem
- Compelling technical or clinical differentiation
- Understanding of health care workflows or buyers
- Thoughtful deployment and integration considerations
- Alignment with real-world health care needs
You do not need to have all the answers, but you should be solving a real health care problem.
Special consideration will be given to solutions that:
- Reduce emergency room boarding and efficiently utilize inpatient hospital capacity
- Expand capabilities for care in the home, including technologies that support the following programs:
- Mobile Integrated Health
- Remote Patient Monitoring
- Hospital at Home
- Improve patient scheduling and other clinical operations
- Improve the efficiency of back-office functions of healthcare, including medical group and medical center revenue cycle activities
- Improve access to medical specialists, especially for chronic conditions like diabetes and heart disease