Technology, Entrepreneurship Changing Healthcare

Mission:

1. Promote and spread awareness about technology in medicine.
2. Create a community for discussion, support and exchange of technology-related ideas.
3. Create resources to accelerate medical student innovation.

Technology, and Entrepreneurship Changing Healthcare at University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (TECH-UWSMPH) is hosting a 6-month long Bench to Bedside innovation challenge designed to give students real world industry experiences from idea generation, product development to entrepreneurship, especially within the medical field. The program promotes interdisciplinary cooperative work between medical, law, business, and engineering undergraduate and graduate students. The annual innovation challenge is hosted by TECH, a medical student interest group organization founded in 2016 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health. The founding goals of this innovation challenge are to:

1. Provide hands-on interdisciplinary medical entrepreneurship and innovation experiences for undergraduate and graduate students in medicine, law, business and engineering.
2. Bring together faculty and industry expertise and resources to help mentor and guide student innovation and create specific needs based solutions to specific healthcare problems.
3. Provide monetary support to support the medical student driven innovations and bring them to market.

The ultimate vision of TECH-UWSMPH is to create a culture of medical innovation that coexists and complements existing leadership in research and public health.