Welcome to the AMSA Digital Health Innovation Festival
The first of its kind, this exciting initiative is designed to support and showcase innovative digital health technologies developed by future physicians. We’re shining a light on students who have created real-world solutions—functional tools, applications, platforms, or products that expand access to quality healthcare through digital innovation.
How it works
- Call for entries: We opened applications to student innovators in late Nov 2024, with an invitation to apply to pitch. The response was great.
- Lightning pitches: 12 semifinalists were invited to pitch their solutions to our panel of healthcare, VC, and tech experts in February 2025.
- Finalist presentations in DC: Live presentations at AMSA’s Annual Conference in Washington, DC on April 18 — and compete for the grand prize.
Meet the Finalists
A low-cost, portable urine-based test that enables real-time methotrexate monitoring via a digital app, ensuring safer, more effective pediatric cancer treatment in low-resource settings. Meet the team.
An affordable AI/ML-powered app that screens for Alzheimer’s in 30 seconds using speech analysis, providing cognitive scores, early alerts, and a Memory Bank for stored voice recordings. Meet the team.
Simplifies lipid panel results with personalized, multilingual AI-driven insights, offering clear risk assessments, explanations, and actionable heart health recommendations to improve cardiovascular awareness and outcomes. Meet the team.
An AI-driven platform that streamlines clinical trial recruitment, ensuring faster enrollment, improved diversity, and better patient-trial matching to accelerate medical research and reduce costs. Meet the team.
These 8 finalists, chosen from a competitive global pool, will live-pitch their solutions to an expert panel on April 18th, during AMSA’s 3-day annual convention. Join us & see who takes the grand prize!
Selection Committee Judges
Dr.Shuhan He (Advisor)
Physician, Mass General Hospital Institute Health Data Analytics. Faculty, Harvard Medical School. Entrepreneur & celebrated innovator.
Dr.Jason Reminick
CEO & Founder Thalamus, Physician-Entrepreneur
Chris Martinez
Investor, Lead, BK XL Accelerator, powered by the Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation’s Social Justice Fund
“Technology belongs in the hands of those who understand patient care best. With AMSA’s Innovation Festival, we see a national sample of the talent and innovation from emerging physician student leaders. This allows us to bridge the gap between possibility and real-world impact.”
—Dr. Shuhan He
Benefits to Student Innovators
– Acceleration: Advance their solution with support and expert backing: with a pathway to potential VC investment.
– National recognition: AMSA has a long legacy of inspiring changemakers — and putting them on a national stage.
– Networking: with the medical innovation-elite — nationally recognized physicians and healthcare tech pioneers
– Publication: Submit your abstract to Conduct Science, a publisher of open access academic research journals — we’ll help you get your materials journal-ready.
Play a lead role in this initiative
Technology companies, health care businesses, allied organizations: join this exciting initiative. Here you can:
– Get in front of tomorrow’s medical trailblazers: AMSA has a long legacy of inspiring nationally recognized changemakers, Meet this next-generation — you’ll want to get on their radar.
– Provide chances that would otherwise be missed: enable students to acquire skills and seize opportunities that might not be accessible to them.
– Further your mission: by empowering the future physicians to advance solutions that advance health equity
– Gain insights: medical students possess a deep understanding of today’s healthcare challenges. It’s impossible not to feel inspired after engaging with these future doctors.
We’re just getting started.
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