Health system intelligence profile
UCHealth / University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Editorially verified · Last reviewed August 30, 2026
Intelligence summary
Established 2016
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.
Documented successes: 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
Mandate and remit
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.
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Fund or office: CARE Innovation Center
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.
Documented successes
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
Organizational home: CARE Innovation Center, UCHealth / University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
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