Digital Health Innovation Challenge | 2024 IEEE SA Telehealth Pitch Competition
Live Virtual Pitch: Digital Health Innovation Challenge
12 June 2024
Location: Virtual | 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM EST, LIVE
Presented by: IEEE SA Transforming the Telehealth Paradigm Industry Connections Program in collaboration with the IEEE SA Healthcare and Life Sciences Practice
The IEEE SA Transforming the Telehealth Paradigm Industry Connections Program in collaboration with the IEEE SA Healthcare and Life Sciences Practice invites technologists, engineers, and developers from around the world to submit a pitch on their innovative digital health solutions to complex telehealth or mobile health challenges.
Submit Your Pitch
Pitch Application Deadline: 12 April 2024
Register for the Live Virtual Pitch Event
The theme for the 2024 competition is Digital Health Innovation Challenge. The competition welcomes submissions of solutions that seek to enhance patient engagement, streamline healthcare delivery, and improve overall patient outcomes in a value-based care model. The winning innovation will receive a US$2,000 travel stipend to present live at an IEEE Global Technology Conference in 2024 alongside some of the judging panel members, promotion through various IEEE SA mediums and social channels, and other opportunities through appropriate IEEE societies and networks.
Innovations appropriate for this competition include new digital applications, devices, or platforms that focus on improving population health, health care delivery, or clinical trials subject monitoring, emphasizing health equity in a telehealth/mobile environment.*
*Please note that concepts or design ideas will not be accepted.
EVALUATION CRITERIA
Competitors will be evaluated on the three main areas of criteria:
- Health Care Impact: Service/innovation, reach, scale, value proposition, etc.
- Technology: Access, service delivery, patient & provider experience, network extensions, extensibility, adaptability and flexibility, interoperability, etc.
- Governance: Accessibility & inclusion programs, education, workforce development, compliance drivers, safeguards (privacy and security), etc.
