The 8-80 Program is designed to streamline health innovations that will improve the lives of Canadians of any age. 8-80 gets to the middle by focusing on the edges of 8 months to 80 years. It is a joint endeavour between CHEO and Bruyère whose goal is to partner businesses with researchers and create a rich ecosystem for early-stage innovation emerging from Eastern Ontario’s health professionals.
The 8-80 Program aims to capture the passion and creativity within CHEO and Bruyère, and foster an environment designed for and by health-care professionals. We will support technology validation, provide business coaches, research mentors and system navigators to help transform inspiration into high-impact products and services for our patients and families.
Our vision
The vision of the 8-80 Program is a transformed innovation process within CHEO and Bruyère, leading Canada in both internally developed health innovation, and directly supporting the validation and adoption of externally developed health tech solutions.
Our program objectives
The primary objective of this initiative is to create a fertile, aligned ecosystem in Ottawa and Eastern Ontario for health innovation. CHEO and Bruyère will partner together, to target the full spectrum of Canadians, from the very young (CHEO) to older adults (Bruyère).
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The primary objective of this initiative is to create a fertile, aligned ecosystem in Ottawa and Eastern Ontario for health innovation. CHEO and Bruyere will partner together, to target the full spectrum of Canadians, from the very young (CHEO) to older adults (Bruyère). The 8-80 Program has been structured with three interrelated areas of focus:
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CHEO and Bruyère Innovation Team members
Meet the CHEO and Bruyere Innovation Team |
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Our program activities
The 8-80 Program is being structured around three areas of focus: Foundational Change, Internal Innovation, and External Innovation. The core activities for each area are:
Foundational Change |
This area of focus is the foundation of the 8-80 Program initiative, with the objective of fostering an institutional culture that embraces and supports innovation. Core activities involve:
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External Innovation |
This area of focus transforms the two participating hospitals into partners of choice for external developers of health innovation (companies with a promising minimum viable product), while matchmaking emerging market solutions with identified internal challenges. Core activities involve:
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Internal Innovation |
This area of focus works directly with health professional innovators, incubating the development and piloting of innovation being developed within CHEO and Bruyère. Core activities involve:
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Underlying all three areas of focus is a commitment to knowledge dissemination and national leadership. In developing and executing on the 8-80 Program, the proponent team will actively engage with leading health-focused innovation programs across Canada, and will in turn widely disseminate lessons learned from the 8-80 Program model and the Innovation Roadmap process being undertaken.
Funding
CHEO and Bruyère are developing a proposal to support the activities described here. While we wait to secure funding, CHEO and Bruyère will continue to work towards the development of a stable innovation program and will actively support the heath innovation community partnerships both locally and nationally.
Contact Us
If you have an innovative idea, or questions about the 8-80 Program, please contact us! We’re always looking to learn about and collaborate on new ideas to drive forward health care innovation.
We can be reached at innovation@cheo.on.ca and will respond to your message within 24 hours.