Baystate Health’s TechSpring is the proving ground for real world digital health solutions in Massachusetts. Founded in 2014, TechSpring provides startups with a place to connect with leading healthcare and technology experts, the opportunity to validate their ideas with existing health systems, and a forum for collaboration within the ecosystem.
TechSpring offers startups four programs, each suited to address specific needs:
Insights: Participants receive valuable feedback from real world healthcare professionals and patients.
Projects: Participants are connected with TechSpring’s innovation partners to expedite the validation of their healthcare solutions
Analytics: Participants propose an innovative project and execute it as with full access to Baystate Health data.
Interfaces: Participants work in collaboration with Cerner, Intersystems, and Dell to build the digital health IT infrastructure of tomorrow.
On June 13, 2017, TechSpring received a second round of funding from the Massachusetts Digital Health Initiative in order to further advance its mission as one of the state’s leading digital health innovation labs. The Commonwealth’s $80,000 grant for TechSpring will go to support for digital health start-ups, including mentoring, strategic partner matching, targeted education, co-working spaces, start-up accelerators, and other programming. It’s strategic partner in Boston, PULSE@MassChallenge, received a similar grant for $170,000.
