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Orlando Health Strategic Innovations

Orlando Health

Last reviewed August 30, 2026

Intelligence summary

Program at a Glance

Program mandate
Orlando Health Strategic Innovations is the health system's division for inspiring and accelerating innovation across the enterprise, bringing proven clinical innovations and technological advances to market and creating new revenue streams through partnerships and investments. It has three main components.
Organizational model
Nonprofit
Location
Orlando, Florida
Program types
Innovation centerAcceleratorVenture fund
Commercialization pathways
InvestmentStrategic partnership
Focus areas
ClinicalMedical deviceDigitalOperational
Public scale or maturity signals

Orlando Health Strategic Innovations is the health system's division for inspiring and accelerating innovation across the enterprise, bringing proven clinical innovations and technological advances to market and creating new revenue streams through partnerships and investments. It has three main components. The Foundry is an internal accelerator that identifies, refines and commercializes ideas from Orlando Health team members and physicians, covering software, apps, medical products and regulated devices. Orlando Health Ventures is the corporate investment arm, providing financial, operational and strategic support to companies whose technology can improve patient outcomes and change care delivery. The Center for Innovation is a physical hub on South Division Avenue in Orlando with flexible meeting space, a 3D printing lab and a prototyping workshop, and outside companies engage the division through venture investment, pilots and co-development with its clinical and engineering staff.

Documented successes: Opened the Orlando Health Center for Innovation at 1126 S. Division Ave, Orlando, with a 3D printing lab and prototyping workshop; operates The Foundry internal accelerator and the Orlando Health Ventures investment arm

Official engagement route
Program website ↗Health system website ↗
Last reviewed
August 30, 2026

Mandate and remit

What This Program Does

Orlando Health Strategic Innovations is the health system's division for inspiring and accelerating innovation across the enterprise, bringing proven clinical innovations and technological advances to market and creating new revenue streams through partnerships and investments. It has three main components. The Foundry is an internal accelerator that identifies, refines and commercializes ideas from Orlando Health team members and physicians, covering software, apps, medical products and regulated devices. Orlando Health Ventures is the corporate investment arm, providing financial, operational and strategic support to companies whose technology can improve patient outcomes and change care delivery. The Center for Innovation is a physical hub on South Division Avenue in Orlando with flexible meeting space, a 3D printing lab and a prototyping workshop, and outside companies engage the division through venture investment, pilots and co-development with its clinical and engineering staff.

Areas of Focus

ClinicalMedical deviceDigitalOperational

Commercialization Pathways

These routes appear in the program's sourced public record.

Venture Investment and Company Creation

Fund or office: Orlando Health Strategic Innovations

Orlando Health Strategic Innovations is the health system's division for inspiring and accelerating innovation across the enterprise, bringing proven clinical innovations and technological advances to market and creating new revenue streams through partnerships and investments. It has three main components. The Foundry is an internal accelerator that identifies, refines and commercializes ideas from Orlando Health team members and physicians, covering software, apps, medical products and regulated devices. Orlando Health Ventures is the corporate investment arm, providing financial, operational and strategic support to companies whose technology can improve patient outcomes and change care delivery. The Center for Innovation is a physical hub on South Division Avenue in Orlando with flexible meeting space, a 3D printing lab and a prototyping workshop, and outside companies engage the division through venture investment, pilots and co-development with its clinical and engineering staff.

Publicly Reported Outcomes

  • Documented successes

    Opened the Orlando Health Center for Innovation at 1126 S. Division Ave, Orlando, with a 3D printing lab and prototyping workshop; operates The Foundry internal accelerator and the Orlando Health Ventures investment arm

Leadership and Structure

Organizational home: Orlando Health Strategic Innovations, Orlando Health

  • Bobby HelmedagManaging Director, Orlando Health Ventures

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Sources and Updates

Reviewed August 30, 2026. External source links open in a new tab.

  1. Orlando Health Strategic Innovations official source orlandohealth.com. Accessed August 30, 2026.

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