The objective is to encourage initiatives capable of bringing benefits to the medical field based on real-world data.
In line with the moment of digital transformation in healthcare, Roche, a global leader in biotechnology and sponsor of the startup acceleration platform Innoscience/StartSe, announces the 2018 Challenge “Empowering patient data to redefine healthcare”, for startups that have innovative approaches in projects that include data management for the sector.
During the last decade, there has been a significant growth in the generation of information from a variety of sources – mobile, wearable, electronic medical records, genomic tests, records performed by healthcare professionals and by patients themselves – which are increasingly connected to each other. Roche believes in the potential for healthcare transformation through the creation and use of knowledge generated by access to large-scale data (in depth and scope), enabling more personalized care in the medical field.
“Combining and working with data from multiple sources allows us to get a more complete picture of the healthcare landscape. This information will help us understand how we can promote better decisions, whether about treatment, management or even public policies. We want to invest in startups that have this vision and are part of this big data in patient care”, comments Rolf Hoenger, president of Roche Farma Brasil.
The winning project will be announced between the months of October and November and will be able to choose one of three award options:
- immersion program equity-free week at Roche Diagnostics' Digital Health Accelerator in Munich, Germany, with access to co-working, deep dive with business coaching, interactions with Roche, startups, executives and local investors;
- Subsidy for consulting services to assist the startup in defining its business model, growth strategy or internal structuring;
- Silicon Valley Mission (organized by StartSe), with a week-long program that includes visits, lectures and events with innovation-oriented entrepreneurs, investors, professionals and professors from different industries to motivate creative and transformative attitudes.
To compete, projects must fit into the categories below and be replicable in markets outside Brazil.
Challenge Categories “Empowering patient data to redefine healthcare”:
#OGetData: Data acquisition solutions that efficiently capture patient interactions throughout their journey (from monitoring to diagnostic, treatment, treatment response, and post-treatment data):
- Platforms and new electronic medical records that capture large volumes of real-world, clinical and genomic data from various public and private sources;
- Systems focused on the longitudinal recording of patient interactions with different units of the health system;
- sensors wearable and unconventional devices for monitoring biomarkers (including digital solutions for monitoring vital signs and daily activities) and recording patient adherence to medication;
- Automated remote diagnostics software;
- Other solutions that empower the patient to collect their own health data;
- Biomarkers/assays for diseases with high incidence in Latin America.
- Tools for extracting, standardizing, curating and/or integrating health data, structured or not, preferably from different sources (eg medical records and social media);
- Subgrouping techniques and tools for pre-analysis of data lakes;
- Innovative and simple interfaces for interaction and sharing of health data;
- Computer models to identify medically relevant (patient and population-related) signatures, patterns or correlations and/or predict the predisposition of patients to certain diseases;
- Sensitive tools to predict disease outbreaks and issue early warnings;
- Devices that connect patients and their health data to experts in any region;
- Solutions to automatically quantify health management costs and to identify and address inefficiencies/inequalities in access to health;
- Triage solutions for the ER, based on real-time data to predict risk factors and direct patients to the best care/treatment options.
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