MedTech Accelerator

IGE Virtual MedTech Showcase 2020

IGE hosted its first Virtual MedTech Showcase on May 20th, 2020. We highlighted our fantastic MedTech Accelerator teams who are innovating technologies ready to impact the healthcare industry to help patients and personnel!

Check out these teams:

 

What is the MedTech Accelerator?

 

Do you have an idea, concept, or design for any of the following:

• Medical Devices & Diagnostics (FDA 510K devices, surgical solutions, materials science)
• Digital Healthcare (consumer products, wearables, software solutions)
• AI, Machine Learning, Healthcare Analytics

 

Have you developed a prototype or need help building a minimum viable product?

Would you like to learn how to launch your idea into the market?

 

If you answered yes to these questions, you may be a candidate for IGE's new IGE MedTech Accelerator. 
Our program is tailored to suit teams based on the stage of product and business development. No matter what stage your team is in, our program can help you understand how to navigate the complex process involved in bringing medical innovations to market.  

 

What We Do

•  Support entrepreneurs working at the intersection of healthcare and technology

• Our mandate: Make a significant impact by increasing the number of medical technologies translated to the marketplace

• We support entrepreneurs as they develop, test and scale their efforts by providing access to advisors, investors, corporate partners, customers, regulatory know-how and clinical test facilities

 

What Stage Are You?

Medical Technologies progress through various stages from concept to launch.  We help teams through every stage of their development, regardless of the stage they are in.  During the review process of your application, we can determine where you fit in the program.  

 

Stage 1: Market and Clinical Need Validation

• Learn all the steps to making and commercializing a medical technology

• Customer Discovery

• Business Model

• Value Proposition

• Product Definition and Concept Development

 

  MedTech Accelerator Bootcamp Curriculum - Stage 1

 

Stage 2: Build Minimally Viable Product, Prototype Development

• Design and Development

• Human Factors

• Verification and Testing

• Quality System Compliance

• Robust Project Plan

 

Stage 3: Field Test and Clinical Validation, Prepare for Launch

• Pilot Production

• IRB and Regulatory Approval

• Quality and Manufacturability

• Clinical Plan

• Reimbursement

 

Interested in joining the MedTech Accelerator? Applications for Spring 2021 Cohort due by February 22nd.  Apply here!

 

MedTech Accelerator Partners

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​ ​	​ Galvanizing Engineering in Medicine (GEM) Program

 

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