UCSF Rosenman ADAPT
$500K* cash support and connections to payers for startups developing breakthrough technologies to improve healthcare efficiency. Deadline to apply is October 1, 2021.
Scale Up Your Healthcare Solution in Partnership with Leading Healthcare Companies
$500K* non-dilutive funding and the opportunity to partner with Anthem, Blue Shield of California, Chicago Pacific Founders, Evernorth & UnitedHealth Group, with over 200 million members. Deadline to apply is October 1, 2021. *Each selected company receives $100K.
Deadline to apply is October 1, 2021.
UCSF Rosenman ADAPT supports health technology companies who are developing next generation solutions to address health disparities.
As COVID-19 has shown, disparities in health and access to care remain stubbornly intact, and in many ways are widening.
We are interested in bold proposals that can accelerate improvements in health by offering new solutions, and potentially new models, of care. We are particularly interested in interventions that can improve health outcomes at the population/community-level.
A minimum viable product is essential. Solutions could include, but are not limited to:
- Multi-sectorial interventions that address social and economic determinants of health across multiple domains at the intersection of social, economic, and health needs.
- Improving health care access, potentially with new forms of delivery.
- Whole-person models of care that support integration of behavioral and medical drivers of health status.
- Improving engagement of diverse communities with their health, with providers, and with payers.
- Interventions that help unwind racial bias in healthcare decision-making.
We encourage proposals from companies run by, or for, women, communities of color and LGBTQ communities. It is important for companies, especially companies not led by the constituents they seek to serve, to display a collaborative, community-driven approach.
You should demonstrate in your proposal the following:
- Connections to the community you serve that demonstrate effective engagement and trust.
- Understanding of the community you serve, including their unique cultural values, their particular social and health needs, and the lived experiences of community members.
- How you will be inclusive of community voices and knowledge when it comes to prototyping and co-creating your initiative.
- Proposed solutions that build on and support existing community strengths.
Benefits to Entrepreneurs
The benefits to the entrepreneur are compelling, including “matching” with a major payer or health system that can dramatically accelerate commercial validation and adoption; financial award; the support of UCSF Rosenman Institute staff and advisors; and access to our investor network.
Benefits to Sponsors
The benefits to our payer, health system and technology sponsors include access to promising innovations that have near term impact without disruption to current internal initiatives as well as building linkages to the robust UCSF innovation and investor community.
Eligibility
- Applicants must show their solutions are innovative and have the potential to be deployed on a national scale.
- If selected, applicants must commit to provide staff, time, and resources to validate, pilot, and deploy the solution that is being developed.
- Companies from early stage with MVP to late stage (revenue) are eligible.
- Companies based anywhere in the world are eligible.
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Areas of Interest
This is not a complete listing. Other proposed solutions are welcome.
- Mental & Behavioral Health Solutions
- Elderly Care Solutions
- Women’s Health
- Cardiovascular Care
- Oncology Care
- Chronic Care
- Virtual Care
- Pharmacy Remote Solutions
- Autoimmune Disease
- Hospital at home
- Infectious Disease
- Digital Therapeutics
- Care at Home
- Patient & Family Support
- Nutrition/Wellness
- Pain Management
- AI/DSS that prevent bias
Resources Provided
By the UCSF Rosenman Institute and corporate partners of the ADAPT program.
- Remote participation – all presentations are virtual
- Cash $100K non-dilutive funding
- Fast turnaround time
- Insights on how to implement which data are key, and what pilot environment is optimal
- Access to data and HIPAA compliant infrastructure
- Exposure to strategic and venture capital investors