2024 Prime Health Innovation Challenge in Colorado 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 Colorado’’s communities.
Denver, CO –September 25, 2024 – Prime Health is proud to introduce the finalists in the 2024 Prime Health Innovation Challenge in Colorado. Finalists are the top seven digital health innovators, having advanced to the final round from a pool of two dozen leading health innovators. Winners will be chosen at the Live Final Pitch Event on November 12th at Coors Field in Denver.
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 Colorado Health Foundation, is awarded to the top companies to test implementation with a Colorado safety net healthcare organization.
Finalists
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 Colorado. 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.