Healthcare leaders: join us to help shape New Mexico’s future.
Here’s everything you need to know about joining the Health ImpACT Challenge—what's involved, how it's structured, and what you'll walk away with.
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Participation Details for Healthcare Organizations
Health ImpACT is building a first‑of‑its‑kind health innovation pilot network across the state—bringing healthcare organizations into a coordinated effort to set priorities, compare notes, and explore startup technologies that can strengthen care delivery and operations across New Mexico.
It is designed for New Mexico healthcare organizations that want to:
Stay close to emerging technology without standing up a full innovation department (or to get extra support for their existing teams)
Explore new innovation models such as co-design, incubation, or venture‑style partnerships
Learn alongside peers navigating similar workforce, feasibility, and operational constraints
Test startup technologies when there’s a clear fit, with structured support and shared infrastructure
Help shape what health tech innovation looks like in New Mexico
This program works whether you are an independent clinician, health system, clinic, health plan, FQHC, tribal health organization, or specialty provider, and it is built to be flexible and respect the realities of time, implementation readiness, and long‑term sustainability.
Our Role
HealthInno is the innovation studio backbone for this work, so your team can focus on priorities, fit, and decisions—not logistics.
What we handle:
Coordination and facilitation
We organize peer convenings, compile feedback, translate technical claims into clinical context, and keep timelines on track.
Startup outreach and vetting
We pre-screen startup technologies, surface only the most promising options aligned to NM priorities, and handle all vendor coordination.
Pilot design and scoping
Working with your team, we help define time-bound pilot projects, success metrics, and planning—afterward, we document outcomes and summarize learnings.
Example Innovation Pilot Process
1. NM healthcare names a priority
Between-visit monitoring
Primary Care is looking for practical ways to stay connected to patients between visits and after discharge, especially when chronic conditions and transitions require closer follow‑up.
2. We issue a national call for startups
HealthInno curates a short list of promising solutions
HealthInno and its Advisory Council use market and clinical expertise to pre‑vet ideas from startups, researchers, tech transfer offices, and other partners, narrowing to a short list of solutions that appear feasible and well‑suited for New Mexico. The selected teams then present at regularly scheduled sessions, where participants can ask questions, provide feedback and decide which solutions to explore by hosting a scoped, time-bound pilot.
Amplifier Health
An AI‑powered voice analytics platform that analyzes short speech samples to surface potential health condition signals, supporting remote check‑ins and clinician follow‑up when needed.
Solution Category: AI-powered voice biomarker technology
Focus Area: Voice-based monitoring, early detection, remote monitoring and screening support
Learn more: amplifierhealth.com
4. Participant opts to host a pilot
When a solution looks promising, a participating organization can opt in to a structured pilot, with HealthInno supporting the startup and healthcare team as needed.
Duration
8–12 weeks
Population:
50–100 patients in a defined cohort
Success Metrics:
follow-up visits, positive predictive rates
This example is illustrative. Actual priorities, partners, evaluation design, and outcomes will vary.
3. A participants sees a promising solution
What Participation Involves
Participation is designed to be lightweight and flexible, with most touchpoints handled virtually.
Time commitment:
2–4 convenings per year (virtual or hybrid): Priority-setting sessions, startup review meetings, and peer debrief discussions
Estimated 5–10 hours total across the year for priority input, review feedback, and decision discussions
If you pilot: An additional 10–20 hours for internal coordination (clinical champion, IT/ops lead, and data/outcomes contact), depending on scope
What's optional:
Hosting a pilot is completely optional. You can participate in priority-setting, providing feedback to startups, and review without ever piloting.
Pilots only happen when there's a strong organizational fit, leadership buy-in, and clear success criteria.
Who's typically involved:
Executive or innovation lead point of contact for strategic decisions: you'll lead the conversation with peers, review promising startup technologies alongside other health system leaders, and gain hands-on exposure to early-stage diligence practices—evaluating founders, assessing use case fit, and providing feedback to startup teams
Clinical champion (if piloting): Frontline clinical perspective, workflow fit, and patient safety considerations
Operations or IT lead (if piloting): Implementation feasibility, integration complexity, and vendor coordination
Data or outcomes contact (if piloting): Metrics definition, data advisory, and evaluation support
What You Walk Away With
Even if you never host a pilot, participation in Health ImpACT gives you:
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A seat at the table where New Mexico's health innovation priorities are set, ensuring your organization's constraints and needs are represented.
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Hands-on experience reviewing startups, assessing fit, and providing feedback—building internal capacity to evaluate future innovation.
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Direct relationships with other NM healthcare leaders navigating the same technology, workforce, and feasibility questions.
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Supported assessments of what new technologies can and can't do in New Mexico settings—so you can make smarter, faster decisions.
Example Use Cases
ACT stands for Advanced Computing Technology.
It’s a State priority. For Health ImpACT, it means new technology that is clinically grounded, operationally realistic, and has the potential to transform care delivery for New Mexico communities.
Select a “+” to view examples of what that can look like.
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What this refers to
Digital health & tech-enabled tools that help extend care beyond traditional settings—supporting virtual-first workflows, ongoing support, and reliable care across distance and time.Typically supports
Access expansion, continuity of care, home-based care, specialty reach, and patient self-management.What this looks like in practice
Virtual care workflows with escalation, follow-up, and care team routing
Remote support for chronic care, rehab, and recovery outside the hospital
Patient-facing tools that help people understand trends and manage goals over time
What it is not
Standalone video visits, basic portals, or tools that don’t connect to real care workflows. -
What this refers to
AI-enabled tool and data systems that connect care activity, data, and workflows across settings—so teams can act on real-time signals, route work intelligently, and reduce administrative friction inside daily operations.Typically supports
Transitions of care, cross-system referrals, integrated care, clinician time savings, burnout reduction, cycle-time improvement, and closing care gaps.What this looks like in practice
Real-time signals that trigger follow-ups and handoffs (discharge, missed visit, care gap)
Constraint-aware routing based on urgency, capacity, and available services
Documentation and task support that drafts notes and surfaces action items
Automation for intake, referral prep, prior auth, and handoffs—with human approval
Forecasting and scheduling that adapts to demand and capacity shifts
Systems that coordinate care across teams and sites—tracking what’s happening, anticipating what’s next, and routing work so patients don’t get lost between
What it is not
Data integration alone or generic task trackers that don’t fit real workflows. -
What this refers to
Smart sensing & device-enabled approaches (i.e. wearables and lightweight sensors) that capture health signals through wearables or lightweight sensors—and turn them into useful insights over time for both care teams and patients.Typically supports
Rehab and recovery, movement/neuro support, safety monitoring, longitudinal engagement, and continuity across settings.What this looks like in practice
Next-gen wearables that track fine motor, gait, or tremor change (e.g., a sensor-enabled glove concept)
Low-friction sensing that supports safety, recovery, and daily function outside clinical settings
Patient-facing insights that help people spot change earlier and manage their own goals
Signal summaries that stay useful even with limited connectivity
What it is not
Standalone consumer gadgets, or devices positioned as definitive clinical tests without appropriate oversight. -
What this refers to
AR/VR tools that strengthen training and remote support—so teams can build skills faster and extend specialty support without always needing someone on-site.What this looks like in practice
Simulation training for high-risk workflows without disrupting clinic operations
AR-guided support for procedures or equipment setup, with real-time remote expert backup
Immersive rehab or therapy support that adapts as patients progress over time
Typically supports
Workforce training, remote specialty support, care standardization, rehab, and patient education across distributed settings.What it is not
One-off VR experiences, marketing demos, or entertainment-first tools that don’t integrate with care pathways or staff workflows. -
What this refers to
Advanced modeling and simulation that helps leaders test decisions before rollout—so programs, pathways, and operations improve with fewer unintended consequences.Typically supports
Population health strategy, pathway design, care management programs, capacity planning, and performance improvement.What this looks like in practice
Digital twin / “what-if” simulation to test changes in access, capacity, and care delivery
Scenario modeling for prevention programs, outreach strategies, and care management approaches
Pathway modeling across populations (who benefits from what next, and when)
What it is not
Static dashboards, retrospective reporting only, or analytics that can’t be tested in a small, time-bound pilot. -
What this refers to
Applied next-generation computing for complex health system decisions—when the number of variables, constraints, and tradeoffs makes standard approaches too slow or too simplified.Typically supports
Precision medicine, population health strategy, care pathway design, care management programs, access planning, capacity optimization, and system-level performance improvement.
This includes high-performance computing (HPC) today, quantum-inspired methods in practice, and quantum-ready approaches as the field matures.What this looks like in practice
Modeling and optimizing precision medicine treatment pathways across populations (who benefits from what next, and when)
“What-if” simulation for prevention programs, capacity shifts, and care delivery changes before rollout
Complex planning like access, scheduling, routing, and resource allocation across distributed settings
Finding patterns in large, messy real-world health data to improve stratification, diagnostics, and outreach at scale
What it is not
A “quantum computer product,” routine reporting dashboards, or diagnostic tools marketed for individual patient decisions without appropriate validation.
Join Health ImpACT
Health ImpACT is where organizations share learning, evaluate what can work, and set statewide direction for what comes next.
Join the leaders shaping how health innovation shows up across the state.
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