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. (New to AMSA? Learn about our 75 years of student empowerment here.)
How it works
- Call for entries: Students worldwide were invited to apply to pitch in late 2024.
- Lightning pitches: 12 semifinalists were invited to pitch their solutions to our panel of healthcare, VC, and tech experts in February 2025.
- Finalist live presentations in DC at AMSA’s Annual Conference in Washington, DC on April 18 — and compete for the grand prize. Join us and cheer on your favorite team!
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.
Meet the AMSA InnoFest Honorees! The student start-ups that stood out to us during the initial pitch phases — and we just knew had to be a part of the first-ever InnoFest event. Come get to know them — then join us in DC to learn more about each one.
Selection Committee Judges
Dr.Shuhan He (Advisor)
Physician, Mass General Hospital Institute Health Data Analytics. Faculty, Harvard Medical School. Entrepreneur & celebrated innovator. Meet Dr. Shuhan He.
Chris Martinez
Investor, Lead, BK XL Accelerator, powered by the Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation’s Social Justice Fund. Meet Chris.
Derek Howard
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Digital Health Foundry Program Manager. Meet Derek.
“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
InnoFest Partners
Benefits to Student Innovators
– Acceleration: Expert guidance and coaching from our advisor and pool of judges — with a potential to win the grand prize “start-up bundle” and consideration for potential VC investment.
– National recognition: Featured on AMSA’s national channels before, during and after the event.
– Networking: Exclusive mixer with judges and sponsors in DC, 1×1 collaborations along the way.
– Publication: Opportunity to be published in Conduct Science, open access academic research publisher.
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.
Want to get involved?
Were just getting warmed up. On the heels of our 2025 pilot, we’ll be going bigger and bolder in 2026 — and this action will heat up in the spring of 2025. Stay in the loop with our quarterly AMSA Digital Health news updates — good for students, partners, and faculty. And if you have specific questions of any kind: reach out to us via email, we’d love to hear from you.