Want to partner with UChicago Medicine?
At the Forefront of Innovation
The University of Chicago Medicine seeks partnership with innovation from early stage ideas to established startups looking to pilot and implement solutions. UCM brings together clinical and technical experts in a variety of fields with the goal of addressing everyday healthcare challenges. We expect to partner with and support new innovation to improve patient experience and outcomes, increase provider satisfaction and reduce costs.
The Center for Healthcare Delivery Science and Innovation created a streamlined process to learn about new ideas and partnership opportunities to improve clinical practice, patient experience and workflow. Ideas for collaboration must align with the health systems priorities, goals and challenges as outlined in the UChicago Medicine Annual Operating Plan.
Interests include:
- Early Stage Ideas
- Digital Health Technologies
- Simulation and Training
- Teaching the Next Generation of Healthcare Providers
The Requirements
UCM Clinical Excellence Priority Scorecard Categories
“Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.”
—Elon Musk
Partner Benefits
Partnership with UChicago Medicine can develop in many ways:
- Content Expertise: UChicago Medicine connects innovators with experts to vet and provide feedback on proposed solutions to help them realize their impact.
- Mentorship: UChicago Medicine offers relationships with content experts for ongoing discussion and development of ideas and products.
- Data: UChicago Medicine can collaborate to help validate key startup questions and assumptions.
- Funding: UChicago Medicine may offer initial seed funding for innovators to further develop their idea.
- Pilot Site: UChicago Medicine will provide opportunities to implement and test innovations in a healthcare system.
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Our Current Partners
In 2023, UChicago Medicine and the University of Chicago partnered to contract with MDClone. The goal of improving access to HIPAA-compliant data will aid in cutting-edge research grants, internal hospital quality improvement, and partnerships with schools in the University.
As part of the HDSI Covid Innovation Challenge, UChicago Medicine adapted a mobile app, moblMD, to facilitate communication in the pandemic-era. Clinicians could contact patient rooms, each other, and receive updates of rapidly-changing hospital policies.
In 2021, UChicago Medicine launched a one-year pilot with TailorMed to aid UChicago Medicine oncology patients by seamlessly screening and identifying potential financial support to relieve their out of pocket drug expenses.
Piloted in 2020, the cloud-based version was as an awardee in the HDSI Covid Innovation Challenge. NowPow is embedded in Epic and provides prescriptions to community based resources for UChicago Medicine patients based on screening of individuals’ social determinants of health.