Through user-driven digital innovation, we reimagine the future of global health and create sustainable value for our users, teams, partners, and communities.
OROT, the Connected Health Incubator, was one of the first incubators established within a healthcare setting in Canada. It was established to address the need to develop and integrate innovations with demonstrated feasibility and acceptability in the medical field. OROT continues to lead the way in co-creation and multidisciplinary collaboration, connecting healthcare professionals and end users with industry partners to build and launch digital innovations that improve people’s lives.
OROT, in partnership with CIUSSS West-Central Montreal and the world-renowned, award-winning Jewish General Hospital, fosters innovation by providing access to the expertise of users, clinicians, researchers, and infrastructure. To provide a more balanced approach to accelerating digital innovation and ensuring market success, OROT works closely with other complementary organizations such as small, medium, and large industry partners, research and innovation centres, accelerators, economic development, AI consortia, philanthropic organizations, governments and patients, and professional associations. The coalition brings together existing players and infrastructure with highly complementary expertise towards the common goal of accelerating and implementing innovation.
OROT service content
We accompany companies through the entire cycle of digital innovation, supporting and guiding them until they are integrated into the healthcare system.
We help partners move from unmet needs to scalable deployments.
Collaborate with users: Collaborate with clinicians, employees, patients, caregivers, administrators, researchers, and industry to iteratively design user-driven solutions to ensure ease of use, feasibility, and clinical relevance. Assessment and integration pathway with industry partners: Incorporates assessment of patient, team, and organizational value based on a value-based healthcare model. Procurement and system-level implementation guidance for industry partners. Partnerships and funding: Build win-win public-private partnerships and mobilize resources (AI grants, philanthropy, ventures).
We build innovation capacity for sustainable transformation.
User-driven design: Practical training in design thinking, prototyping, and the desirability, feasibility, and feasibility framework. Partnerships in healthcare: How to collaborate with the public health sector to deliver impactful innovations.
We generate evidence and new knowledge about innovations in health.
The impact of innovation, hubs, and labs: A study of the outcomes and value of innovation practices, hubs, living labs, and incubators. Design and innovation methodologies: Advancing user-driven co-creation approaches adapted to public healthcare.
Benefits of OROT’s services
OROT fosters an environment that significantly minimizes risk, enables experimentation to better meet clinical needs, allows innovation to flourish, and supports the ideology of “Care Everywhere,” the concept of providing the right care at the right time, wherever it is most convenient for the patient.
Patients and caregivers: Innovations that create meaningful value for them. Industry: Reduce implementation risk and enable faster access to health markets. Clinicians and employees: Solutions tailored to your needs and realities. Managers: Effective innovations to address workflow challenges. Funder: Evidence of impact, scalability, and system value.
This article will also be published in the quarterly magazine issue 24.
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