FasterCures, part of the Milken Institute dedicated to improving drug development by encouraging greater patient involvement is searching for digital health entrepreneurs to pitch at its upcoming conference, Partnering for Cures. The group is looking for collaboration opportunities between biotech and digital health, partly to find more effective ways to improve clinical trial recruitment.
Entrepreneurs for Cures will spotlight entrepreneurs who are developing digital and mobile health technology that boost patient participation in biomedical research and development and those looking for partnerships with patient communities to demonstrate their product’s capabilities. It’s particularly interested in companies pursuing solutions geared to chronic conditions, acute and infectious diseases, mental illness, genetic conditions.
Specifically it’s looking for this technology:
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Canada has a proud history of achievement in the areas of science and technology, and the field of biomanufacturing and life sciences is no exception.
- Technologies that apply patient reported outcomes to improve medical product development
- Mobile/digital health technologies designed to improve clinical trials
- Tools to bring patients into the biomedical research and development process
It is encouraging digital health entrepreneurs to apply online. The deadline is September 30. Part of the application involves submitting a YouTube video. Among the criteria are:
- An explanation of the core technology and what it does
- The targeted patient population
- How the technology would impact the current disease landscape
- Who would they be most interested in partnering with on their technology
- Any other relevant details
Entrepreneurs chosen from online applications will be invited to pitch at FasterCures’ Partnering For Cures conference on November 16-18, an annual meeting that brings together more than 1,000 leaders from across all sectors in medical research, including the patient philanthropic community.
We will be talking about patient engagement next week in Washington, D.C. For two days we will host about payers, providers, patients, policymakers and health IT leaders to discuss how to make healthcare more patient-centric. I am hosting a panel about telemedicine and we’ll also cover accountable care models, strategies for better medication adherence, technological innovations for reaching patients, cutting-edge trends in consumer engagement and more. Check out the agenda and buy a ticket today.
