GE Healthcare is Collaborating with Nex Cubed for the Canada Edison™ Accelerator Program
The GE Accelerator program is a start-up and scale-up acceleration program designed by GE Healthcare to empower and enable digital health start-ups and scale-ups to accelerate, validate and scale innovative solutions using GE’s unique Edison™ Digital Health Platform to address specific challenges to the healthcare sector.
The Edison™ Accelerator Program began in 2019 in India, expanded into Europe in 2021, and Canada has been selected as third regions globally to launch a program in 2022.
As GE Healthcare’s innovation partner, Nex Cubed will recruit and provide mentorship to healthcare startups that are building innovative AI solutions that improve patient outcomes and experiences, increase the efficiency of clinical practices and healthcare facilities, reduce waste and inefficiencies, eliminate costly and harmful errors, and use AI to improve medical imaging. The program will culminate in an Innovation Showcase in November 2022, with up to 6 finalists selected.
GE Healthcare in collaboration with Nex Cubed select six digital health start-ups for inaugural Edison Accelerator in Canada.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Participants will focus on three aspects of their proposition - innovation, adoption and integration. Participants will benefit from a combination of engagements with global GE experts from clinical, technological and commercialization teams. The program will enable rapid and compliant design, development and deployment of innovative applications and will ultimately give the participants access to GE Healthcare’s clients.
In addition, the selected startups will have an opportunity to be considered for integration onto the GE Edison™ platform. Used by GE’s internal developers and strategic partners, the platform enables rapid and compliant design, development and deployment of various applications, and would ultimately give the selected startups/scaleups access to certain GE customers via Edison™ Marketplace, GE’s online store that allows customers to find, try and buy algorithms from a range of third-party developers.
VALUE PROPOSITION FOR STARTUPS
Access to the Edison™ platform & Services
Mentorship and coaching for commercialization
Validate startup solution to facilitate integration within radiology workflows and foster adoption
Access to a global sales channel through Edison™ Marketplace
STARTUP CRITERIA
We are seeking next generation healthcare startups that are building innovative medical imaging solutions that improve patient outcomes, increase the efficiency of clinical practices and healthcare facilities, reduce waste and inefficiencies, and eliminate costly and harmful errors. See below for our selection criteria:
The company’s technology leverages artificial intelligence and/or machine learning to improve medical imaging in the fields of neurology, cardiology, oncology, orthopedics, and/or pediatrics.
The company has mature technology that is at least at a Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of 8. Please see the definitions of TRL here.
The company has a distinguished and diverse founding team with prior experience building medical imaging technology
The technology should be approved or in the process of seeking regulatory approval in Canada, US or other region.
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