From an Oregon priority to real world validation.
Health ACCORD connects pilot ready health technology companies with Oregon care organizations for structured, time bound evaluations. Software, data and workflow products, whether FDA cleared or outside its remit.
You do not need to be based in Oregon. Most of the companies we want are not.
Who this is for, and who it is not.
Read the right hand column honestly. A wrong fit costs you four months and costs a clinic more than that.
A fit if you are
- Pilot ready, with a product that can be deployed now
- Able to show value in one to three months without FDA clearance or a clinical trial
- Able to run a structured evaluation with defined scope and success measures
- Ready for real clinical operations rather than a demo environment
- Willing to work in a setting with thin staffing and unreliable connectivity
- Open to learning, with no guaranteed sale at the end
Not a fit if you are
- Pre product or concept only
- Building an FDA regulated device, diagnostic or therapeutic that is not yet cleared
- Currently in the clearance process and dependent on it to show value
- Dependent on a clinical trial to demonstrate anything
- Looking for guaranteed customers or a fast procurement
- Expecting a logo placement rather than a result
What we mean by real world validation.
A time bound, scoped deployment inside an actual care environment. A clinic, a department, a care management team, a workflow somebody depends on.
It tests feasibility in real conditions
Not whether the product works in a controlled demo. Whether it works on a Tuesday with two people out sick, on the connection that site actually has, in the language the patient actually speaks.
It measures something the care team cares about
Quality, access, capacity, administrative burden, operations. Agreed in writing before anybody sees a number, so nobody is tempted to find a different measure afterwards.
It ends in a decision
Continue, scale, revise or stop. All four are real outcomes. Stop is published alongside the others, which is the thing that makes the published results worth reading.
How the process works.
01
Priorities defined by Oregon care organizations
Shared clinical and operational challenges, named by the people who have them. Published, so you can tell before applying whether you answer one.
02
Submission and review
Send a deck and one paragraph on what you would measure. We review for readiness, feasibility and alignment to a live priority. Most applications stop here, and we say so quickly.
03
Innovation spotlight
Selected companies present to Oregon decision makers at a recurring session. You get direct feedback on whether it would survive in their setting. Some of that feedback will be unwelcome and it is the most valuable part.
04
Structured evaluation
Where an organisation opts in, we scope a time bound deployment with coordination support, a template agreement and a named clinical owner on their side.
05
Rural deployment, if the priority is a rural one
For frontier and rural priorities the evaluation can run through Milepost, the delivery programme of Waystation Health, on field staff and an enrolled panel that already exist. That removes the single thing that kills most rural pilots, which is finding a site with the hours to host you.
What you get, stated plainly.
A named clinical counterpart who can make a decision
Yes
Not a procurement contact
Template data and pilot agreements
Yes
Drafted once, reused
An evaluation design and a published write up
Yes
Including negative results
Equity taken, or a fee charged to apply
No
Neither, in any cohort
A guaranteed purchase at the end
No
Nobody can promise that
Introductions to every organisation in the network
No
Only where a priority matches
Apply.
A deck, the priority you think you answer, and one paragraph on the measure you would accept being judged on. That is the whole application.