Paratus Digital Health Accelerator - Cohort 2
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Seeking Digital Health Medical Countermeasures
Focus Areas
Areas of focus for the accelerator include digital health tools that enhance preparedness and response to public health emergencies due to:
1. Chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) threats
2. Pandemic influenza
3. Emerging infectious diseases
If your solution is working in another segment or space, please provide a narrative around how it relates to the focus areas above.
Across these areas, we are interested in digital health solutions that can support preparedness, health readiness and mobilization. Specifically:
- Technologies to enhance clinical trials for medical countermeasures (MCMs), which could include innovations for enhanced recruitment and retention or optimized trial design.
- At-home digital diagnostics and telemedicine solutions that utilize artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) approaches for diagnosis and risk assessment.
- Novel approaches to collect, process, evaluate and validate real-world evidence for therapeutics, devices and diagnostics, including use of AI/ML.
- Digital twin approaches using multimodal clinical data, including AI (e.g., EHR, imaging, unstructured notes) for early identification, endotyping or treatment guidance for disease severity to enable early intervention.
- Integrated capabilities to identify deterioration in the pre-hospital setting to assist in assessing, diagnosing and treating CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear) mass casualty patients. For example, innovations that enable sensor data collection, AI model development, responder- and clinician-facing user interfaces and tools that can facilitate integration with larger healthcare enterprises.
Who should apply?
We’re seeking entrepreneurs and university-backed researchers who are developing digital health solutions that will empower the nation to prepare for and respond to health security threats and improve the continuum of clinical care.
This global call for solutions is open to startups from across the innovation ecosystem with an established proof of concept, evidence of product-market fit and business model potential.
This program is conducted fully virtually. Participants must be available to spend approximately five hours each week from May 27 to August 1.
Timeline
March 31, 2025: Applications open
May 9, 2025: Applications close
May 23, 2025: Cohort announced
May 27, 2025–August 1, 2025: 10-week accelerator*
August or September 2025: Final Showcase
*One-week break the week of June 30-July 4, 2025
Deadline to apply is May 9, 2025 at 11:59pm CT.