Baystate launched TechSpring five years ago to accelerate innovation in healthcare informatics and technology in order to solve the challenges of healthcare. TechSpring provides technology companies access to a real, live health system using a proven process and platform to test and validate digital health solutions.

“TechSpring has tackled a variety of challenges for Baystate, from transitions in care to operational efficiencies. This is a big, bold next step into the world of AI,” said Joel Vengco, Vice President, Chief Information Officer and TechSpring Founder. “Baystate is a living lab to pursue those big ideas, learn quickly and eventually share with the wider market.”

“Life Image enables creative collaborations outside of healthcare’s traditional silos through use of its leading technical capabilities and unmatched evidence-based network,” said Matthew A. Michela, President and CEO of Life Image. “This partnership with Baystate and TechSpring will facilitate new breakthrough technologies that work in the real healthcare world, specifically in the practice setting where patients and clinicians interact.”

Accenture analyzed key clinical health AI applications and found that they can potentially create $150 billion in annual savings in the United States by 2026. A McKinsey report found that a potential for healthcare AI to deliver between $350 billion and $410 billion in annual value by 2025.


About Baystate Health
Baystate Health is a not-for-profit healthcare organization serving over 800,000 people throughout western New England. Services include an academic medical center, community hospitals, medical practices, homecare and hospice, regional reference lab, and the insurer Health New England. As part of a state-wide $1 billion healthcare innovation initiative in Massachusetts, Baystate Health launched an innovation and adoption accelerator, TechSpring, to match private enterprise with partners to take on some of healthcare’s most difficult challenges.


About TechSpring, the Baystate Health Technology Innovation Center
TechSpring is a technology innovation organization that, with direct connection to Baystate Health, a large integrated health system, provides leading technology companies with access to real healthcare resources and a representative community to test, prove, and accelerate their innovative solutions. The TechSpring Insights program connects innovators directly to users and other sources critical to drive and validate product development and adoption and to go to market with a competitive advantage.

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