Innovation Contest – Big Data in Digital Health

eHV – eHealth Ventures Digital Health Incubator

MKM – Morris Kahn and Maccabi Research and Innovation Institute

On March 20th 2018, in Tel Aviv, MK&M and eHV, two of the leaders in Israeli Digital Health, as well as their networks of global partners will hold a startup competition focusing on Big data and the way it has become a driving force in modern medicine and healthcare.

The event will be attended by leaders from industry, academia and finance including members of the innovation ecosystem in Israel and leading entrepreneurs in the field of Digital Health.

The main event will be a contest based on a “Call for Innovation”. The topic is based on the role Big Data is playing within many of the disruptive and innovative startup companies and technologies that they are developing – all aimed at solving real clinical needs (see details below).

The 5 finalists will present during the event, and compete for prizes which will include a Term Sheet for an investment by eHealth Ventures (up to M 2.5 NIS), and a Service Agreement with MKM including 250 medical consultation and data extraction hours, valued at 100,000 NIS.

All applicants will receive:

• Exposure to MKM and EHV management teams and multinational partners
• Finalists will present on stage to a “Shark Tank” of investor / partner /expert reps.
• Valuable prizes to the winner

We invite all game-changing entrepreneurs, developing products / technologies / companies involving Big Data in Digital Health and aiming to change the way medicine will be delivered – to send us an application.

 Applications must include:

• • Executive Summary (2 pages max.)
  • Slide Deck (10 slides max.)
  • Scientific basis (if applicable) – 2 publications max
  • CV’s of founders / team (3 max.)

Send Applications to:

Deadline for applications: Feb. 15^th, 2018 at 12:00

The Topic – Big Data in Healthcare

The fields of big data and machine learning will change the world of medicine from the ground up and bring about scientific breakthroughs in the development of personalized medicine, early detection, prevention of diseases and increased accuracy in diagnoses.

Multiple medical and technological trends drive Big Data: more and more medical processes are executed and documented on an electronic / digital level and patients and physicians are producing more and more data themselves – from diagnostics to procedures to social networks.

Maccabi Health Services has one of the largest electronic medical databases worldwide, containing longitudinal data on a stable population of approx. 2 million patients for 20 years. The database  complies, among others, from clinical interactions and activities, comprehensive lab data, pharmacy prescription and purchase data, demographic data,  , nurse stations’ measurements and medical imaging

Significant advances have been made in the information extraction from multiple text and open data formats, which all unlock a lot of potential from clinical documentation for analytics purposes. At the same time, medicine and healthcare are still lagging behind in the adoption of Big Data approaches. This can be traced to particular problems regarding data complexity and organizational, legal, and ethical challenges.

The constant growth in the generation and usage of Big Data in general and first best-practice examples in medicine and healthcare in particular, indicate that innovative solutions for generating, storing, analyzing and extracting value from this data are coming fast – and these are the ventures we are seeking.