Entries open for Breakthrough Alliance Innovators Challenge

Deadline Date: October 15, 2024

 Donor Name: Healthcare Innovation and Technology Lab

 Grant Size: Not Available

Applications are now open for Breakthrough Alliance Innovators Challenge to provide research and testing to innovative technology companies worldwide as determined by the research consortium.

The Breakthrough Alliance (“BTA”), a digital health research consortium, was created to accelerate a greater number of digital health innovations through the generation of exclusive, evidence-based research and insights. 

The Call for Applications to the Program seeks to identify health related or healthcare technology innovators that may be best suited to implement a pilot project under certain criteria as explained below and may be determined by the Program leadership including Sponsor and Administrator. Each pilot will be administered by HITLAB in a sample of appropriate target end users for a research study duration (sample size and duration shall be determined on a case-by-case basis to achieve valid, rapid verification efforts and at the sole discretion of BTA).

Goals

• Enable health or healthcare technology companies to benefit from rigorous and cost-effective methods for generating meaningful, evidence-driven data that seek to validate their concept, prototypes, or products and attract key clients and investors.
• Expand the network of stakeholders granted access to digital health resources
• Accelerate the growth and development of health/healthcare Innovator solutions worldwide.

Eligibility Criteria

• This program is open only to Applicants who submit an application in accordance with the application requirements below and who meet the following criteria:
  • If an individual, an Applicants must be at least 18 years of age at the time of entry, are legal residents of countries where such challenges are allowed by the laws of those countries (excluding the residents of Russia, Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria), as of the time of entry and when winners are announced.
  • If a team of eligible individuals, the Applicant team must be composed of members who each meet the eligibility requirements for individual Contestants.
  • If a corporation, limited liability company, partnership, or other legal entity, a Contestant must, at the time of entry:
    • Be legally formed, maintaining its primary place of business in the United States.
    • Have sufficient funding to continue operations for the next 12 months from any source.
    • Have a functional product prototype available for testing.

Ineligibility Criteria

• The following individuals, teams, and organizations are ineligible to participate as Applicants or Innovators:
  • The Sponsor and all of its employees and representatives, and each of their family members and household members of the Sponsor’s employees and representatives.
  • The Administrator and all of its employees and representatives, and each of their family members and household members.

Selection Criteria

• All Submission reviews will be conducted by a qualified panel of impartial judges (the “Judges”) selected by the Sponsor and/or Administrator. A review may be conducted in one or more rounds of judging, and each round of judging may involve different Judges. The Sponsor and/or the Administrator reserve the right to substitute or modify the judging panel or criteria at any time for any reason. 
• All Judges shall be and remain fair and impartial. Any Judge may recuse him or herself from judging if the Judge, the Sponsor and/or the Administrator considers that it is inappropriate, for any reason, for the Judge to evaluate a specific Submission or group of Submissions. This includes, but is not limited to, cases where a Judge has a material business relationship or affiliation with a Contestant.

Judging Criteria

• Judges will use the following four criteria for evaluation of each Submission:
  • Innovation: Includes innovativeness of the product and approach, the scale of the problem is seeking to address. 
  • Scalability: Includes market size and realism of market size estimations supported by established management. 
  • Sustainability: Includes completeness and realism of business plan and feasibility of the core team in supporting long-term product growth based on the current and future market.
  • Impact: The digital health solution or product is demonstrated to have an impact on the target population based on extent of potential impact on critical health care needs, and extent of product testing previously performed and required.

For more information, visit HITLAB.