Innovation Challenges help your organization find + develop new solutions to the your pressing health + community concerns.
This program aims to eliminate health inequities in New Mexico by working with host organizations to solution on specific health challenges, soliciting the voices of the community and frontline workers, and leveraging our expertise and network of collaborators to find, evaluate, and implement innovative new ideas that have potential for measurable impact.
The benefit? A wider range of voices, experts, and collaborators tackling your challenges in innovative new ways, creating fresh ideas, unexpected partnerships, and novel solutions that may not have emerged otherwise.
The Process
Identify Challenges: We partner with organizations (payers, providers, systems, agencies) to innovate on the most urgent and challenging problems you’re facing. Examples include improving maternal health outcomes, increasing patient or member engagement and education on certain topics, recruiting healthcare workforce, developing culturally-appropriate alternative treatment ideas, etc.
Evaluate the Problem: We convene a diverse group of experts and innovators to examine the problem from all angles and determine if there is an existing solution or not. We are particularly interested in elevating new innovations from diverse founders with lived experience who have a fresh perspective and out-of-the-box ideas of how to address healthcare’s hard-to-reach challenges.
Source New Ideas: Leveraging this expertise and partnerships, we make a call for solutions to present for consideration. This may be a call for existing health tech startups who have an innovative way to solve the problem identified, or it may be working with academia to co-develop a new innovation that doesn’t currently exist in the market (in partnership with your organization).
Pilot Innovations: We present these solutions to host organizations to select for piloting, and we help to implement the pilot and track/trend/monitor the results. Host organizations choose which to pilot, if any.
Benefits for Host Organizations:
Low Lift and Low Risk: By your sponsoring this initiative, we are able to provide hands-on support and structure to lead these programs with as little lift from your team as possible.
Measure Impact: Use pilot programs to measure preliminary outcomes, publish your work, and procure additional funding.
Foster Innovation + Workforce Readiness: Cultivate an innovation mindset within your organization and cross/up-skill your team on evaluating and implementing new technologies and programs through the lens of data and impact.
Give Back to Your Community: Improve outcomes for the communities you serve while promoting economic growth in the health and healthcare sectors.
Scalabale Opportunities: Should your organization co-design a solution, shared benefit may exist if the solutions are scaled.
Early Access to Innovation: Be among the first to implement and benefit from innovative healthcare solutions you may have otherwise not had access to or learned of.
Join Our Community
We are actively seeking collaborators who share our vision and want to be a part of the change, including:
Health + Healthcare Organizations: Host an innovation challenge and/or pilot program.
Innovators and Researchers: Let us know about your innovative new ideas, startup tech, or solutions.
Funders and Policymakers: Support or sponsor our initiatives and help us drive impact.
We value collaboration, action, and commitment over buzzwords and status quo. If you share this dedication to impact, reach out to show your support!
