Healthcare company-building profile
CARE Innovation Center
UCHealth / University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Source-based profile
Program at a Glance
- Program type
- Accelerator
- Program category
- Health system accelerator
- Organization
- UCHealth / University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
- Organization type
- Hospital or health system
- Location
- Aurora, Colorado
- Company stage served
- Not publicly documented
- Cohort or participation model
- Not publicly documented
- Investment or funding offered
- Not publicly documented
- Published investment terms
- Not publicly documented
- Equity or fee model
- Not publicly documented
- Clinical or hospital connection
- Yes
- Application status
- Active
- Founded
- 2016
Public description
About the program
The UCHealth CARE Innovation Center is a clinical-validation sandbox founded in 2016 that develops, validates and optimizes next-generation healthcare solutions across the UCHealth system. Its focus areas are data science and AI, digital patient experience, VR and AR, and wearables and virtual health. The center partners with companies to pilot technologies in live clinical environments and operates an Innovation Lab in Denver's River North district alongside its Anschutz Medical Campus base. UCHealth pairs the center with a venture capital fund to invest in the companies it validates.
What the program publicly emphasizes
Focus areas and features
- Category: Health system accelerator
Publicly documented people and network
Program leadership and alumni
- Program leader
- Richard Zane, MD — Chief Innovation Officer and Co-Founder
- Notable alumni named in public materials
- Operates a $100 million venture capital fund; more than 1,040 virtual stroke consults in a single year; sixth-largest biobank associated with a U.S. health system with 72,000 patient consents and 31,000 blood samples; serves over 1.4 million patients annually as a validation environment
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