CHISEL Healthcare InnoMatch 2025
CHI Start-up Entreprise Link (CHISEL) InnoMatch 2025 is calling for innovative market-ready or near market-ready solutions to address critical and emerging healthcare needs!
Click here to indicate your interest in the virtual Info Session/ or in-person Networking Session now!"
HEALTHCARE INNOMATCH OPEN FOR APPLICATIONS IN FEBRUARY 2025.
Keep a lookout! For enquiries, email us at CHISEL@chi.sg.
Theme
Hospitals currently face significant challenges in the delivery of healthcare, including increasing patient complexities, the need to provide better, more accessible care, and operational inefficiencies. These challenges often lead to sub-optimal patient outcomes and increasing cost pressures. Therefore, hospitals must be embrace a transformative shift toward digital systems that deliver exceptional patient value, by providing patients with Better Access, High Quality and Efficient Care.
Building the Digital Health of the Future
Problem Statement
How can digital solutions (e.g. AI-enhanced Digital Platforms or Devices) seamlessly integrate care within and beyond hospitals to create a future-ready, patient-centric healthcare model that enhances access to care, improves quality of care, increases operational efficiency, and enables discharge and continuing care, with the objective of providing greater value to patients?
This theme seeks disruptive innovations that can benefit diverse populations and empower care for patients. The proposal shall focus on the following key areas and should ideally be backed by clinical evidence and data:
1. AI solutions for clinical decision support, analytics, operations quality assurance, discharge planning and transitional care.
2. Devices and Automation for smart wards and clinics for patient care delivery, optimizing manpower, reducing admin tasks and enabling care transitions; allowing more time for patients.
3. Digital Applications for clinician support, and patient engagement.
Your solution and proposal outcomes should be backed by clinical evidence and data. Submit your application today to pioneer digital solutions that will improve patient outcomes, enhance the healthcare experience, and transform the way we deliver care.
Funding and Collaborations
Successful winners in CHISEL Healthcare InnoMatch 2025 will obtain funding support to demonstrate their solutions in operational environments and will receive further endorsement from our partner healthcare clusters upon successful validation of the results of pilot implementation. Ultimately, the platform aims to accelerate the adoption of near-market-ready and fit-for-mainstream-use healthcare innovation, bringing them a step closer to benefit patients.
Timeline
Stage 1 Application: Launch of Open Call
Submit your application for CHISEL InnoMatch 2025 on the Challenge Portal (link will be made available when application opens) by 28 March 2025, 23:59 SGT. Multi-participation is welcomed. Fill in the application form available in the participant space, providing the following:
· Applicant and Company Information
· Solution Pitch Deck (7 slides)
· Pitch Deck Guidelines can be downloaded in the Challenge Portal.
The panel of judges for CHISEL InnoMatch 2025 will shortlist start-ups and SMEs to move to Stage 2. Results will be announced by 21 April 2025.
Stage 2 Application
Shortlisted start-ups and SMEs are to submit your full proposal, addressing the following but not limited to:
· Healthcare (organisational) needs and relevance
· Innovation (competitive advantage, current competing strategies, technologies, competitors)
· Maturity/ market readiness
· Impact (quantifiable)
· Ease of transition to adopt by users
· Business plan (i.e. commercial applications, economic viability, go-to-market strategy of solution)
· Clinical, technical and operational readiness
· IT viability
· Prior or existing trials, proof-of-concept, proof-of-value and/or clinical validation results
· Safety and regulatory registrations/ certifications/ licenses
Results will be announced by 23 Jun 2025. Up to seventy (70) start-ups and SMEs will be selected to move to the next shortlisting round.
Results of the next shortlisting round will be announced by 4 Aug 2025. Up to twenty (20) start-ups and SMEs will be selected to move to the next shortlisting round.
Engagement Sessions
Up to twenty (20) start-ups and SMEs will be invited to present your solution at Engagement Sessions with our clinical partners and reviewers. Engagement Sessions will be held virtually at night, between 1800 and 2100 SGT (GMT+8/ UTC+8). Each session will be approximately fifteen (15) to twenty (20) minutes, with time allocated for the presentation and Q&A. More details on the arrangement of schedule will be shared nearer to date.
Results will be announced by 25 Aug 2025. Up to fifteen (15) ) finalists will be selected.
Stage 3 Application and Coaching
Finalists will be coached by experts in preparation for the Final Pitching Event. This may include coaching on refining the value proposition of the solution, budgeting, business plan, pitching. Oral presentation of your solutions is required during the coaching sessions. Guidance on submission materials for the Final Pitching Event will be provided nearer to date.
Final Pitching Event
Finalists will pitch to the Judging Panel composed of senior management from the partner healthcare clusters and domain experts. Finalists in Singapore are required to attend the event in-person, while finalists overseas may dial-in through the online live-streamed platform.
Up to six (6) winners will be selected at the end of the Challenge, announced on the day of the event itself.
Next Steps
Successful winning start-ups and SMEs will be matched to one of the participating healthcare clusters to carry out test-bedding.
Winners will be granted three (3) months of preparation time to finalise the project agreement (and additional three (3) months if ethics approval is required); up to nine (9) months to complete test-bedding; and up to three (3) months to complete the evaluation.
Test-Bedding Phase (Oct 2025 – Dec 2026 )
· Refine the test-bed protocol and define success criteria of the test-bed with your partner healthcare cluster. You would also define the pricing for subsequent purchase, subject to the solution meeting pre-agreed success criteria. You may be required by your partner hospital to supplement more documentation to facilitate the test-bedding and potential adoption.
· A Project Agreement should be set up within three (3) months (an additional three (3) months may be granted if ethics approval is required).
· Test-bedding should start no later than Apr 2026. Complete test-bedding in a simulated and/or clinical environment complying to regulations and institutional policies with your partner healthcare cluster. Test-beds should be completed within nine (9)) months.
Evaluation Phase (Jan 2027 – Mar 2027)
· Upon completion of the test-bedding phase, the partner healthcare clusters would evaluate the success of the test-bed.
All CHISEL 2025 test-bed solutions are to be evaluated using the CHI Evaluation Framework (CHIEF). CHIEF is a holistic framework for the evaluation of innovative solutions seeking real world deployment. Evaluation costs should be included in your application. You may also engage additional services (e.g. statistical analysis, study design, sample calculation etc.) from CHIEF or an independent expert for the purposes of the test-bed at your discretion.
