Cleveland Clinic challenge seeks promising health IT startups

The Cleveland Clinic’s New Ventures Healthcare Challenge is looking for early-stage health IT companies with promising technologies to disrupt the healthcare market.

“Whether your technology will solve challenges in domains such as payment reform, access to care, consumer engagement, operational efficiency or a domain we haven’t even thought of, we want to hear about it—and we want the world to know about it,” according to the challenge website.

Competing companies are required to submit a 90-second video clip that answers the following questions: What is unique about your technology?; Why do you feel this technology will be game changing?; How big will the impact be?; and What are your company’s strategic goals?

Businesses that are selected to advance then must schedule an online presentation to the New Ventures Healthcare Challenge Steering Committee, which includes representatives from Cleveland Clinic, IBM, HealthXL and HIMSS.

The finalists will present their “groundbreaking” IT at the Medical Innovation Summit in Ohio this October.

The winning company will receive a free consultation from commercialization experts at Cleveland Clinic Innovations and its Innovation Advisory Board, and have an opportunity to showcase its product to a select group of Cleveland Clinic caregivers.

Learn more on the website.