Rules for Participation-Pilot Shark Tank
The BWH iHub Pilot Shark Tank is an initiative to match early stage health technology companies, projects, or hackers with clinical partners at BWH; surrounding challenges impacting clinicians and patients at BWH today. These challenges are real problems currently facing clinical practices. Our goal is to help bring traction and a welcome test ground to healthcare tech entrepreneurs in the community and also improve healthcare delivery in the process. This is well-aligned with the iHub’s vision to harness the power of our community’s inventors, innovators, and entrepreneurs to bring ideas from creation to commercialization. This is open to external start-ups as well as internal BWH employees working on start-ups.
Specifically, interested teams will apply to demo their proposed solution based on the challenges listed below. After an internal vetting process involving the clinicians who “proposed” the initial problem and are committed to piloting solutions based on the challenges below, teams will present a 5-minute demo of their solution to a panel of judges in a “shark tank” style setting on April 28th in Bornstein Auditorium (If you don’t know what Shark Tank is, check out the following link).The solution must be “go-live” ready within 6 months of the shark tank pitch. The judging panel will be a mix of physicians committed to piloting the solution, BWH leadership and administration, and BWH iHub team members. The panel of judges will decide whether to move forward with pilots surrounding the proposed solutions, the day of the event – shark tank style!
What BWH Provides
What BWH Provides
- Ability to pilot for 2-6 weeks at BWH during 2014 calendar year
- Access to BWH pilot design advisor pre-pilot
- Ability to formally present to BWH iHub team
- BWH will agree to talk with potential investors, within reason.
- DETAILS: After an internal vetting process, BWH will select the finalists for the shark tank. Each team will come ready to present their proposed solution that matches one of the challenges highlighted below for 5 minutes. Please come prepared to present your idea, demo a prototype, describe your ideal “pilot”, and highlight the value proposition of your solution to BWH. The prototype must be “go-live” ready within 6 months of the shark tank pitch.
- TIMING: If the “shark tank” panel selects your demo solution, BWH will pilot the proposed solution during the 2014 calendar year. If, for a reason on BWH’s side, the pilot cannot launch in 2014, BWH will make every best effort to implement the pilot in a timely manner in 2015.
- LEGAL: During the pilot period, BWH will have no ownership of the piloted solution, nor will they have financial obligation. Once piloted, BWH and the team may or may not engage in further contracting agreements.
- PILOT: Piloting can take multiple forms and lengths. It could mean a solution deployment across all members of the clinical practice or utilization by one physician within the clinic. This pilot opportunity will be at the discretion of the pilot owners at each of one of the clinical practices.
- IT: Over the next year, BWH is undergoing massive conversion to a new enterprise-wide electronic health record and financial management system (Partners eCare) as well as a new enterprise laboratory system (Partners ePath). While we encourage and support continued clinical and technical innovation, we have further ground rules for BWH Shark Tank proposals that may involve information technology (IT) to ensure the success of the strategic, enterprise-wide projects.
Rules of engagement for external participants
- Proposed vendor or custom developed information systems must be vetted by Partners HealthCare Information Security
- Vendors must sign Business Associates Agreement (BAA) with Partners HealthCare and adhere to HIPAA best practices, if patient health information is involved
- No BWH Information Systems development resources are available (for changes/enhancements to existing information systems, interfaces, or proposed new systems)
- Access to Partners’ server infrastructure or services (application programming interfaces) may be limited.
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I would like more information on the Shark Tank event. I have a new technology I would like to enter.
Hello, I’d like to know whether startups from abroad are eligible.
Regards,
Floriano