Navicent Health, a medical center based in Macon, has partnered with the Advanced Technology Development Center's newly unveiled HealthTech Program.
The hospital's Center for Disruption & Innovation, founded in 2015, established the partnership to improve the health and lives of patients in central and south Georgia through the development of new tech, treatments and care created by healthcare technology-oriented Georgia, according to a news release.
ATDC, the state incubator, announced the launch of its new HealthTech Program in July, when more than 40 healthcare startups have joined to expand on population health, caregiver support, patient billing, precision medicine, genomics, medical devices, diagnostics, data analytics and process improvements in drug research. With the new partnership, the center facilitates access to a clinical community for startups within the ATDC portfolio.
“Navicent Health is committed to innovation and creating a wide range of solutions, including high-performing health technologies, to improve patient care not only in central and south Georgia, but industry-wide,” Christopher M. Cornue, chief strategy officer and chief innovation officer for Navicent Health, said. “Working with ATDC, we enhance our ability to deliver innovative, consumer-focused health services through technology to improve patient satisfaction, healthcare outcomes and therefore be better able to create healthier communities.”
Navicent Health will serve as ATDC’s healthcare facility partner, in addition to providing resources for the startups in the program. Navicent said it wanted to help grow and develop local healthcare startups, with possible partnerships with startups across the southeast in the future, according to a news release.
“This is an exciting opportunity for us to work with a premier health organization to drive innovation and commercialization of healthcare technologies that will not only help entrepreneurs in Georgia, but help healthcare systems across the United States in their drive to deliver superior and cost-effective patient care, cut waste, increase access and improve outcomes,” Kirk Barnes, ATDC’s HealthTech catalyst and the leader of this initiative, said. “We’re looking forward to seeing the successes this relationship with Navicent Health will yield.”
ATDC healthcare startups selected to collaborate with CfDI will receive:
- standard curriculum for conducting ‘proof of concept’ studies
- tools to understand how to engage future health systems
- direct clinical exposure to discover how customers will engage with their product
- co-development and joint commercialization of new products that may be introduced to the market with a health system partner.
