Health IT, Startups

AMA matchmaking program ISO early stage startups and MDs to exchange ideas, feedback

Michael Tutty, group vice president professional satisfaction and practice sustainability with the AMA, talked about the Physician Innovation Network and collaborations with incubators and accelerators at the MedCity INVEST conference in Chicago this week.

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A frequent complaint of healthcare startups is that they don’t involve physicians and frankly, their target audience, at the earliest stages of development of their products. A new American Medical Association program hopes to change that. Michael Tutty, group vice president professional satisfaction and practice sustainability with the AMA, talked about a matchmaking initiative for healthcare entrepreneurs and physicians at the MedCity INVEST conference this week.

Tutty spoke in a fireside chat with Jack Stockert, Health2047 managing director, which was moderated by Arundhati Parmar, MedCity News editorial director.

The Physician Innovation Network is still in the pilot stage, but Tutty said the group has been working with Healthbox and healthcare incubator MATTER in Chicago but it is on the cusp of a wider rollout and is looking for other incubators and accelerators to work with.

The idea is that physicians would use the free service to describe the kinds of health tech companies it is interested in collaborating with, a role they would like and how much time they could commit to such as an adviser or board member. Entrepreneurs can use the service to identify the kinds of physicians they would like to work with. It is regarded as having the potential to provide a critical service because it could help physicians move beyond the status quo in healthcare but also shape entrepreneurs ideas with physician input from the earliest stages rather than trying to bake it in later.

Last year, the AMA launched an innovation studio Health 2047 to develop health IT products aimed at satisfying the needs of physician practices and patients.

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