2023 Prime Health InnovationChallenge Finalists
Seven entrepreneurs advance to the final round of the annual event to award the most innovative solutions with a safety net healthcare organization to pilot solutions that improve the health of California’s communities.
Denver, CO – March 29, 2024 – Prime Health is proud to introduce the finalists in the 2023 California Prime Health Innovation Challenge, the second annual Challenge in California. Finalists are the top seven digital health innovators, having advanced to the final round from a pool of three dozen leading health innovators. Winners will be chosen at the Live Final Pitch Event in July.
At this unique final event, finalists will pitch their solutions live to an audience of potential provider institutions (hosts) and healthcare leaders. By listening to the pitches and voting for the solutions, hosts judge these solutions based on who they would most likely partner with in a funded pilot. At the end of the event, a pool of $150,000 in highly coveted pilot funding, provided by the California Health Care Foundation and the CHCF Innovation Fund, is awarded to the top three companies to test implementation with a California safety net healthcare organization. Final dates and details of this event are coming soon, keep an eye out for that announcement in the coming weeks!
Finalists
ACTIVATE by Health Tequity LLC
ThriveLink (Formerly Nutrible)
The Innovation Challenge has attracted national attention for its efficacy in engaging stakeholders in a collaborative, community, and consensus-building process across silos and industries. The one-of-a-kind program identifies solutions with strong potential for sustainable and scalable success in local markets, strengthening and supporting startups and founders, implementing more than 48 digital health pilots in safety net healthcare environments, and awarding more than $1.5 million in funding.
This program advances healthcare through technological innovation, aiming to improve health equity, access, quality, and cost for underserved communities in California. Top leaders and experts in health and innovation vet and validate companies, identify and elevate impactful solutions for health care, and drive innovation forward by fostering pilots with leading provider and community organizations developed and funded as part of the Challenge. Industry experts provide feedback and mentorship to digital health companies seeking to pilot their products with healthcare institutions.
About Prime Health
Prime Health is a nationally leading nonprofit dedicated to advancing health justice, equity, access, quality, and cost through innovation, collaboration, and community building. Together with the communities we serve, Prime Health delivers impact and equity-focused, value-based, and technology-driven health reform. We improve care by accelerating the adoption of sustainable and impactful solutions, technologies, clinical models, and partnerships.