Support the Driving the New Healthcare Innovation Economy Grant Proposal

Component Projects

We need your help to design the most robust projects possible during the next 5 weeks. As part of that effort, we request that you let us know which project you are most interested in participating.

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* 1. Please provide your name and contact information.

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* 2. Which component projects interest you or align well with your organization's strategic prorities?

Health Venture Collaborative: create a vibrant healthcare innovation ecosystem with regionally aligned incentives that generates successful new ventures. HVC focuses on home monitoring to early diagnostics to more individualized interventions and treatments to addressing care for the growing aging population, the high acuity cases, and “sandwich” generation health needs (mental health, obesity, cancer).

Virtual Care Innovation Center: a highly customized and specialized collaboration space where multidisciplinary and multisector collaborations accelerate innovation. It will house “hospital at home” testing and demonstration capabilities, the Healthcare Venture Collaborative, and growth stage tech startups.

West Valley “STEM-West” Innovation & Career Hub at Ottawa University: support a diverse population of local residents, students and entrepreneurs in engineering, prototyping, building, and scaling software and augmented-reality education services and business models through physical facilities and technical assistance/mentorship.

Manufacturing Innovation Center: a build-deploy-scale contract manufacturing facility for rapid design and development of machine-readable diagnostics as well as other health tech product prototyping.

Community Health Workforce Network: scale effective initiatives and strengthen partnerships. The Network aims to support community health workforce acquire skills and credentials that lead to new career pathways and higher paying jobs.

Consumer Engagement and Access Platform: create a consumer ID hub with infrastructure to match individuals across traditional medical care and social determinants of health datasets. A related resource platform will be created allowing providers, payors, and other healthcare leaders to build alternative business models to serve high-risk and underserved medical populations.

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* 3. Equity is an investment priority for the EDA. Please share thoughts or relevant initiatives.

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* 4. Please let us how you and your organization would like to participate and contribute.

Be a project advisor and help design the architecture of a component project

Serve as an implementation partner in phase 2

Be a Mentor to start-up companies, entrepreneurs and small businesses

Provide essential funding (in-kind or cash) to support the 20% local match for the grant

Other (please specify)

Please contact Wes Gullett at wes@ohstrategic.com or Kathleen Lee at klee@gpec.org to learn more about how you can support this initiative.