COMMUNITECH FAST TRACK HEALTH
Supporting innovation in Canadian health care
Communitech Fast Track Health unites national health and tech networks to innovate health care and overcome barriers using Canadian tech.
Fast Track Health Call for Solutions is open
Canadian tech companies with innovative solutions are encouraged to propose their applications to challenges identified by our health-care partners. Selected companies for this round will receive coaching and support from a roster of experienced leaders in the health-tech industry from across Canada.
Applications close June 4th.
Fast Track Health focuses on challenges identified by health-care partners and surfaces solutions, with the end goal of commercialization through piloting and procurement opportunities.
There are human and systemic barriers to health-care innovation in Canada.
The Canadian health-care ecosystem needs a culture shift toward innovation. The process required to bring innovations to market is slow and ultra-conservative, resulting in many innovators going to the United States.
Canadian technology solving Canada’s challenges.
Fast Track Health builds community and connections across the health-care ecosystem to gather insights, knowledge and perspectives, define challenges and solve shared problems using trusted Canadian tech solutions.
Finding better ways, together.
We’re facilitating opportunities for challenge partners and our tech ecosystem to work together, share the resource load and the risk associated with piloting and procurement.
FAQ
The Fast Track Health program focuses on challenges identified by health-care partners and surfaces solutions with the end goal of commercialization through piloting and procurement opportunities.
- Working with both tech leaders and health-care industry partners, we explore the landscape to shape the focus of the collaborative.
- Together, we define the most relevant and pressing challenges faced by the health-care industry.
- We issue a call for solutions to the tech community and select qualifying Canadian companies to address the challenges identified.
- Selected companies will be provided a free Communitech membership for the duration of the program to ensure all selected companies have access to valuable feedback, growth coaching, and connections with partners and advisors before the showcase pitch event.
- Companies selected to participate in the Fast Track Health program will present their solutions at a hybrid showcase event designed to facilitate connections, gain exposure and make connections with the hundreds of health and tech leaders in attendance.
- We facilitate introductions between founders and partners and provide support in navigating next steps, with the end goal of commercializing made-in-Canada solutions through piloting and procurement.
The Fast Track Health program is open to any Canadian tech company with a solution prepared for commercialization to the proposed challenges.
Companies accepted to pitch will be provided a free Communitech membership for the duration of the program to ensure all selected companies have access to valuable feedback, growth coaching, and connections with partners and advisors before the showcase pitch event.
COMMUNITECH FUTURE OF X
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Communitech’s Future of X collaboratives connect you to partners ready to validate ideas and explore solutions.
We’re looking for homegrown tech solutions to tackle Canada’s top health-care challenges. Think you can help? Applications open September 19, 2022.
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