About Veterans Health Venture Studio

Powered by public-private collaboration, to create an ecosystem for people, technology, and community stakeholders to deliver transformative health care innovations for the Nation's Veterans

​About Us

Veterans Health Venture Studio is a cohort-based innovation initiative powered by a public–private collaboration between the Tampa VA Medical Center, VHA Innovation Ecosystem, Microsoft, and MIT Hacking Medicine. The program is structured around three stages—Hackathon, Make-a-thon, and Accelerator—and builds a pipeline of impactful AI-powered health care innovations that address complex challenges within health care, while cultivating an ecosystem of VA and private sector innovators, researchers, and technology industry leaders.

Mission

Build an engine to develop and sustain an innovation pipeline that addresses VA’s most critical challenges by catalyzing the three-fold mission

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​People Development
Train innovators to translate ideas into transformative health care solutions

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​Technology Development
Provide tools, partners, and advisors that accelerate the development of technologies

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​Community Development
Form a coalition of public-private collaborators to create a rich innovation ecosystem