Innovation center at Brigham and Women's Hospital
Discovery Resources
Clinical Innovation Programs
Company / Product Development
Boston Children's Hospital Innovator's Roadmap
Framework and guidance for building a product prototype and business plan
CIMIT
Network of academic and medical institutions partnering with industry and government
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Mobile Health Apps Interactive Tool
The FTC's guide to developing a mobile health app
Health IT Vendor Directory
The Vendor Directory provides a view on the array of Health IT products offered in the market. Users can use filters to search for HIT products by specialty and product type.
M2D2 at UMass Lowell
UMass Lowell’s Massachusetts Medical Device Development Center (M2D2) is active in supporting digital health innovation and selected digital health startups.
MassTech Business Assistance Program
What the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative offers in business assistance to potential companies relocating here.
MIT Hacking Medicine Product Development Toolkits
Offers toolkits to support product and presentation development
MIT Innovation Initiative Healthcare Resources
Aggregated digital health resources from across the MIT community
More Disruption Please
athenahealth startup accelerator, offering mentorship, space, and strategic support.
Payment Models: Medicare Bundles
A guide to the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) initiative
Rock Health Digital Health Startup Handbook
Resource guide for building and starting up a digital health company
TechSpring Insights Program
Offers custom strategic support to entrepreneurs from the Baystate healthcare community
TechStars Boston Program
Competitive startup program offering mentorship, space, and other strategic support
Valley Venture Mentors
Offers mentorship, accelerator support, space, and prizes available to digital health startups
Venture Development Center at UMass Boston
Startup program offering space and mentorship support
Competition / Challenge
Boston Scientific Connected Patient Challenge
A challenge to foster a digital health innovation community to build successful, life-changing diagnostics, devices, therapies & patient management programs.
Northeastern Nurse Hackathon
Annual hackathon convened by Northeastern University's Nursing Entrepreneurship program
Data Resources
Health Policy Commission Cost Trends Reports
Cost Trends Reports present an overview of health care spending and delivery trends in Massachusetts, evaluates progress in key areas, and makes recommendations for strategies to increase quality and...
HPC DataPoints
A series of online briefs created by the Health Policy Commission that spotlight new research and data findings relevant to the HPC's mission to drive down the cost of health care. HPC DataPoints...
Mass HIway Directory
The Mass HIWay Directory lists healthcare organizations enrolled in the Mass HIway, ranging from practices to hospitals, covering primary, ambulatory, acute, long-term, post-acute, behavioral health...
Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative Quality Data Center
The MAeHC Quality Data Center (QDC) is a secure, cloud-hosted, HIPAA-compliant clinical data repository with analytic and reporting functionality. The QDC has de-identified records that can be made...
MeHI Consumer and Provider Health IT Research Study
The 2014 MeHI Consumer and Provider Health IT Research Study provides a look into the ways that health IT is used and perceived by Massachusetts healthcare providers and consumers across various...
MeHI Digital Health Caregiver Survey
Sponsored by MeHI and conducted by The MassINC Polling Group, this report identifies key challenges faced by Massachusetts family caregivers and offers insight to help entrepreneurs develop solutions...
MIMIC
MIMIC is an openly available dataset developed by the MIT Lab for Computational Physiology, comprising deidentified health data associated with ~40,000 critical care patients. It includes...
MITRE Synthetic Mass
Synthetic EHR dataset representative of Massachusetts patients, developed by MITRE corporation
Events / Networking
Mass Digital Health Events Calendar
Community digital health conference and events aggregator
MassChallenge HealthTech Calendar
Calendar of events organized by MassChallenge HealthTech
Funding Resource
8 Things You Need to Know About Raising Venture Capital
Raising venture capital is by no means simple, but it helps to know what you are in for. This is a high level overview of some things to consider.
MassTAG Program
The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center leads a competitive program for companies interested in entering the Massachusetts market. The Massachusetts Transition and Growth (MassTAG) program was created...
MIT Hacking Medicine Funding Resource List
List of programs offering investment or prize money
SBIR/STTR Health-Related Funding Opportunities
SBIR and STTR funding opportunities for healthcare related technologies
Interoperability / Integration
1upHealth FHIR Platform
1upHealth facilitates access to both clinical and claims data across systems by converting it into the FHIR® format.
athenahealth Marketplace
Aggregated information about products, services, applications, and exchange partners from athenahealth's network
Standardized Digital Health Technology Transfer Agreements
The agreement templates listed in the table were created by the Massachusetts Competitive Partnership (MACP)* to lower the barriers to form industry-to-academic collaborations in digital health. The...
Piloting / Validation
Privacy / Security
Sales
Understanding Hospital Budgets
A thorough guide to understanding hospital budgets in Massachusetts.
Simulation / Labs
WPI HDI Living Lab
With strategic relationships with the University of Massachusetts Medical School and the Visiting Nurse Associations of New England, HDI has collaborated with over 10 healthcare provider...
Space
List of Available Co-Working Spaces in MA
Aggregated list of coworking spaces, incubators, and accelerators in Massachusetts
Talent
TechGen
Program and portal to help digital health firms identify talent organized by the New England Venture Capital Association