The iQ Healthtech Lab
Partnerships that Drive Innovation
Collaboration doesn’t happen in silos. Our innovation ecosystem brings traditional and non-traditional partners together and combines them with the power of a leading health system to help test, refine, scale and rapidly deploy healthtech solutions.
What is the iQ Healthtech Lab?
Test, Refine, Scale and Rapidly Deploy Healthtech Solutions
We’re bringing together the expertise of anchor academic institutions like Wake Forest School of Medicine and commercial and consumer-minded partners, leveraging the power of our health system partners to develop transformative healthtech solutions.
The iQ Healthtech Lab is a physical and virtual strategic partnership hub where ideas meet opportunities. We leverage unique, world-class intellectual anchors within the Innovation Quarter and seek to pair them with industry and commercial partners that have ideas to advance into the marketplace.
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Our Focus Areas
The iQ Healthtech Lab draws upon emerging growth sectors of focus and will continue to be intentionally cultivated within the Innovation Quarter.
Value and Health Transformation Sector
Using population health tools, research and approaches to produce insights and models that enable health systems and communities to move to value-based models of care.
Healthy Aging Sector
Integrating technologies, exceptional aging and Alzheimer’s research, and innovative approaches to help people live longer and healthier.
Virtual Health Sector
Using technology, behavioral economics and process improvement to make access to high-quality healthcare easier, including telehealth, virtual health and retail health delivery.
Personalized Care and Precision Medicine Sector
Developing and refining novel approaches (such as genomics and humanoids) that consider a patient’s genetic makeup to improve health, rather than a one-size-fits-all approach to medicine.
Learning Systems Sector
Exploring and refining new opportunities, technologies and approaches for experiential learning and teaching through novel methods such as virtual learning.
Leverage the Region’s Largest Healthcare Network
Not only is the Innovation Quarter home to one of the region’s largest healthcare networks, but we’ve also cultivated a unique innovation ecosystem that thrives on collaboration and partnerships.
Tell us about your project, goals and needs—and we’ll pair you with a partner to help make it happen.
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