The Edison™ Accelerator is a start-up and scale-up acceleration & healthcare provider collaboration programme designed by GE Healthcare in partnership with Wayra UK. It brings together healthcare providers, start-ups and scale-ups who want to leverage the GE Healthcare environment and mentoring to enhance their value proposition. It is designed to introduce GE Healthcare’s Intelligence Platform Edison, to a growing developer community and create a stronger value proposition in the healthcare sector. The Edison™ Accelerator is co-designed with healthcare provider institutions to empower and enable digital health start-ups and scale-ups to accelerate innovative solutions and address new challenges to the healthcare sector. The programme is focused on innovation adoption, launching solutions for validated problem statements with active participation from healthcare provider partners.
The Edison™ Accelerator has launched innovation challenges with healthcare providers to find solutions across: ease of use of Imaging AI by healthcare providers, eliminating waiting rooms with AI and digital technologies and improving healthcare consumer engagement and experience.
Problem statement: How can we increase adoption of AI algorithms into clinical workflows?
While many Radiology Imaging AI applications show promise to alleviate workload and enable clinicians, they increase work if they require additional training, time spent on the computer, and don’t work together in a cohesive manner. The aim of AI in Radiology is to improve efficiency, productivity, quality, and ultimately contribute to precision medicine for better patient outcomes.
Why is AI needed and how is GE Healthcare solving this?
To achieve these goals, AI needs to be integrated into existing digital workflows to maximize AI benefits and outcomes. AI algorithms could bring clinical and operational improvements to healthcare professionals, but if not seamlessly integrated, it can add several steps to the workflow, creating inefficiency and adding complexity which leads to none or limited adoption by healthcare professionals.
To solve this, the Edison™️ Open AI Orchestrator, has been designed to seamlessly integrate AI based clinical applications into the radiology reporting workflows. It efficiently manages these applications along with their execution and data flows by orchestrating the interoperation with various imaging devices, data stores and other information technology systems.
We are looking for EMEA start-ups and scale-ups that can integrate with the EdisonTM Open AI Orchestrator and provide:
Contact Thomas Bastien to learn more about the programme and solutions that we are looking for.
Problem statement: The current cancer diagnostic pathway is a manual, lengthy, multi-hand-off process with many bottlenecks and data silos. This causes delays to definitive diagnosis and staging that severely impact patient treatment and survivorship outcomes.
How do we create an “intelligent system”, ie humans supported by AI / digital technologies, working together to improve the cancer care pathway by addressing system bottlenecks.
How is GE Healthcare solving this?
Healthcare globally is facing its biggest challenges ever. Rising demand, particularly in this COVID world, is stretching already scarce resources to breaking point. Our strategy aims to start to address those challenges, by using enabling digital technologies and AI used in other industries (Retail, Aviation), to support a move away from traditional (one-size fits all) models of care to one that is more precise and tailored to the specific consumer ie personalised care.
AI has the potential to aid decision making and automate operational processes to improve efficiency, reduce costs and ultimately improve health outcomes. Our digital technology and products (EDISON) orchestrate AI apps, such as “GEHC Smart Scheduling” across operational processes to automate our GEHC Rapid Diagnostic Centre (RDC) model. We want to adopt an “Innovation ecosystem”, enterprise-level approach by bringing together our healthcare & technology partners with innovative AI start-ups to trial the use of operational AI apps in real world healthcare settings.
We are looking for EMEA start-ups / SMEs who can work with us to bring additional beneficial capability around our EDISON offerings. Problem areas of interest could include, but are not limited to:
· Risk stratification and prioritisation
· Process automation ie referral management, scheduling, booking, batching / carve out, resource allocation etc
· Proven, scalable data interoperability and consolidation methods toolkit (national standards adherence) and compliance with GDPR which can integrate with the EdisonTM Platform and create a cloud-based set of meta-data to enable evidence-based benchmarking between different sites, regions, or countries (cancer focus)
· Clinical Decision Support solutions that can be applied within the cancer pathway to suggest diagnostic options based on clinical guidelines and /or can auto-complete and/or auto-triage referrals to diagnostic services
· Proven application of NLP tools/ apps that can improve and automate referrer experience; data quality, patient choices and preferences; completion of pre- acquisition patient safety advice and criteria
· Auto-scheduling tools based on optimised booking rules to reduce costs, automate process, reduce manual intervention and optimise diary utilisation and available capacity
· Conversational AI platforms and chatbot functionality to improve collaboration and improve adherence to operational protocols by the healthcare professional
· Predictive / prescriptive apps covering novel & innovative use cases in the Oncology and Radiology domain with a unique, differentiated and market leading value proposition
Contact Thomas Bastien to learn more about the programme and solutions that we are looking for.
Problem Statement: Zero to low visibility of healthcare consumer experience, disease progression, quality of life impact and/or prognosis outside of the clinical setting.
How can we use AI and digital technologies to capture and collate “pertinent” and relevant healthcare consumer data that will simplify patient workflow and personalise treatment. We would like to work together to reduce waste, improve experience, increase throughput and ultimately improve quality of life and survival rates of patients with cancer and/or chronic diseases/ co-morbidity.
To deliver precise value-based healthcare it is essential that we democratise care delivery and give the healthcare consumer a greater degree of responsibility and choice in their care and treatment options. Digital solutions such as telemetry, underpinned by patient-reported outcome/ experience measures (PROMS & PREMS) and innovative risk stratification tools, are all seen as critical data sources. This highly useful data has been proven to enable informed clinical decision making and improvements in the overall quality and effectiveness of care. However, at the moment, data capture of outcomes, whether provider-collected or patient-reported, is significantly limited and not reflected in care service delivery choices.
We are looking for EMEA start-ups and scale-ups who provide solutions which:
1. Collate healthcare consumer information through:
· Conversational AI platforms
· Digital PROMS/PREMS tools
· Home monitoring / wearable devices / apps
2. Analyse and visualise healthcare consumer data available within the Edison™️ platform on both healthcare provider system and patient centric decision analytics platforms to inform clinical decision making, treatment options and service operations by:
· Multi-Modal proactive alerting of the outputs from AI medical device apps to care teams
· Data integration of patient wearable / home monitoring data and visualisation
· AI driven analysis of collated data to drive evidence based clinical and operational decision making
Contact Thomas Bastien to learn more about the programme and solutions that we are looking for.
Applications open - May
Assessment Day - June
The programme starts - August
The programme ends - December
Demo day and private showcase - December
No, GE Healthcare or Wayra UK does not take equity in the companies.
The main purpose of this programme is to work alongside GE Healthcare and healthcare providers and solve some of the challenges they face in the healthcare space.
The EMEA Edison™ Accelerator will be delivered virtually, with commitment of approximately 14 hours a week across the company leadership team for a period of 6 months starting in May and ending in November 2021.
We operate targeted cohorts and take a tailored approach to designing the scaling support needed for each company across areas such as business development, international expansion, investment, recruitment, peer to peer learnings or technical support from GE Healthcare’s experts.
Firstly, submitting the application form on this page will help us understand if you fit the challenges (business model, stage, traction, etc.).
Secondly, if your company fits our criteria, you will be interviewed by an expert panel consisting of GE Healthcare experts, healthcare provider partners and healthcare investors. They will ask both technical and commercial questions to better understand your product and solution.
The most important consideration is how well you fit the 3 challenge areas. If there’s a great fit, then you will be able to make to most out of the programme with extensive opportunities and support from GE Healthcare.
We also focus on your ability to execute. We have a 6-month timeframe to work together, during which we will strive to trial your solution with our selected healthcare providers. The best ways to emphasise the ability to execute is through an experienced and diverse founding team, early traction and strong advisors or investors.
Additional criteria include: