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The Challenge

Healthcare is moving into an era of digital transformation. The last decade has been witnessing a rise in patient data streaming in from several sources – mobile, wearable, electronic records, genomic data, physicians and patients themselves – that are increasingly connected. At Roche, we believe there is a unique opportunity to redefine health care, enabling more personalized patient care by creating and using insights from the access to meaningful data at scale (breadth and depth).

By leveraging the power of multi-sourced data, we can build a more complex, holistic view of patient health and enable better time-to-value decisions throughout the healthcare system.

We are looking for partners sharing our vision and who are tackling this big-data revolution in patient care.

Together we can build a better future.
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Awards

The winner startup can choose one of the following awards:
Equity-free immersion program of 03 (three) weeks at the Digital Health Accelerator in Munique (Germany): access to the co-working space, deep-dive week with business coaching, interaction with Roche specialists, other startups, executives and local investors.
or
Subsidy of consulting services (definition of business model, growth strategy, or internal structure, according to the level of maturity of the startup/team);
or
Silicon Valley Mission (sponsored by StartSe): 01 (one) week of visits, lectures and events with entrepreneurs, investors, professionals and teachers from several industries to motivate the creative and transforming attitude.
In addition, all startups will have feedback on their solutions and the finalists will be able to network with executives from Roche Brazil.
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Solutions we are looking for

To apply, your startup should have a solution that addresses at least one of the items described under #GetData or under #Treat and Predict with Data, and that can be reproduced in other markets outside Brazil.

  • #GetData

    We are looking for data acquisition solutions that efficiently capture and connect patients’ interactions throughout their care journeys

    (from monitoring to diagnosis, treatment, outcome and post care phase)

    Platforms, new medical record solutions that capture large volumes of real-world, clinical, genomic data from various public/private databases

    Systems focused on the longitudinal registration of a patient’s interactions with different healthcare systems

    Sensitive wearable sensors or unconventional devices that track medication adherence and digital solutions that monitor vital signs and daily activities

    Softwares that enable long distance automated medical diagnosis

    Other solutions that empower patients to autonomously collect their own healthcare data

    Biomarkers/assay concepts with focus on diseases with a higher burden in Latin America

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  • #Treat and Predict with Data

    We are committed to transforming healthcare data into knowledge that allows us to accelerate research, enhance patient care and disease management, and reinforce our partnerships with payers

    Tools for extraction, standardization, curation and/or integration of structured/unstructured healthcare data, potentially from different sources (ex. medical records+ social media)

    Sub-grouping techniques and tools for pre-analysis of data lakes

    Innovative and simplified interfaces to interact with and share insights from healthcare data

    Computer models that identify medically relevant signatures, patterns or correlations (at patient and population level) and/or predict the predisposition of patients to certain diseases

    Sensitive tools for prediction of disease outbreaks and emission of early alerts

    Tools that connect patients and their data to healthcare specialists, regardless of location

    Solutions to automatically quantify health management costs, and to identify and work on inefficiencies/inequalities in health access across the population

    Triage solutions for emergency rooms based on real-time data, to predict risk factors and direct patients to better treatment options

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The winner startup can choose one of the following awards:
Equity-free immersion program of 03 (three) weeks at the Digital Health Accelerator in Munique (Germany): access to the co-working space, deep-dive week with business coaching, interaction with Roche specialists, other startups, executives and local investors. Or

Subsidy of consulting services (definition of business model, growth strategy, or internal structure, according to the level of maturity of the startup/team); Or

Silicon Valley Mission (sponsored by StartSe): 01 (one) week of visits, lectures and events with entrepreneurs, investors, professionals and teachers from several industries to motivate the creative and transforming attitude.

In addition, all startups will have feedback on their solutions and the finalists will be able to network with executives from Roche Brazil. Roche reserves the right to review and approve any finalist and may choose to refuse and/or revoke any award, at any time, acting in its sole and absolute discretion Full conditions related to the awards should be consulted in the rules section.
Please, do not submit confidential information. Roche will not request it during the process, and it is the entrepreneur’s responsibility to keep key information confidential.
No, Roche assumes no commitment to invest or establish a business relationship with startups.
As this is a no strings attached arrangement, the IP remains with the inventors.
No, the challenge is opened to startups from all over the world, since legally constituted and registered at their respective local tax authorities (company fiscal number) until the end of the evaluation phase.
The challenge is opened to startups in beta stage (e.g. with built prototype, MVP) and ideally to startups in launch stage (e.g. finalized product/service already in the market with a certain amount of users).
No. This is a short program for connecting Roche and and startups with Roche, selected Pitch and award the winner.
The deadline to register your startup is June 18th, 2018.
The application process starts with your startup submitting a proposal trough this link. It will then have 2 rounds of evaluation – the first one is based on the online submitted proposals and the second one, for selected candidates only, based on interviews (on-site or remote). Please confer the rules section to understand exactly how the selection process takes place.
The winner will be announced at the final event of the challenge which should take place in October or November, 2018, at Roche Brazil facilities.

About Roche

Headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, Roche is a leader in research-focused healthcare with combined strengths in pharmaceuticals and diagnostics. Roche is one of the world’s largest biotech companies, with truly differentiated medicines in oncology, immunology, infectious diseases, ophthalmology and neuroscience. Roche is also the world leader in in vitro diagnostics and tissue-based cancer diagnostics. Roche’s personalized healthcare strategy aims at providing medicines and diagnostics that enable tangible improvements in the health, quality of life and survival of patients. Roche was one of the first companies to recognize the importance of external innovation. Roche Partnering was created more than 10 years ago with the aim of becoming the partner of choice for biotechnology companies and research institutes worldwide. Since then, we have maintained a model that values external innovation as highly as our own internally derived discoveries and established collaborations as the cornerstone of our R&D strategy. Through partnerships we can build a better future together with medicines and technologies that make a real difference to patients.

For more information please visit www.roche.com