OROT helps healthcare teams, innovators and partners codevelop, test and integrate solutions that respond to real clinical and operational needs. Our support can span the full innovation cycle – from identifying a need to preparing for adoption and long-term sustainability.
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What OROT Offers
OROT combines health-system knowledge, innovation expertise and ecosystem connections to support organizations at different stages of their journey. Additional tailored support may be available depending on the needs, scope and complexity of the engagement.
Facilities & Environment Access
Engage with relevant innovation spaces, healthcare environments and validation infrastructure.
Data & Insights
Access curated insights and generate practical evidence to inform solution development, decision-making and evaluation.
Validation, Co-Design, Experimentation & Evaluation
Work with users and healthcare stakeholders to understand needs, test assumptions and assess real-world value.
Capital Mobilization Support
Strengthen funding readiness and connect promising initiatives with relevant opportunities and partners.
Training & Development
Build capabilities in user-driven design, healthcare partnerships, experimentation and innovation implementation.
Dissemination & Ecosystem Access
Share learning, increase relevant visibility and connect with the broader health innovation ecosystem.
Support Across the Innovation Cycle
OROT’s capabilities can be applied at different points across the innovation journey. Not every engagement follows every stage; support is tailored to the opportunity, partner and health-system context.
Patients and caregivers: innovation that creates meaningful value for them.
Industry: de-risked adoption and faster access to the health market.
Clinicians and employees: solutions tailored to their needs and reality.
Managers: effective innovations addressing workflow challenges.
Funders: evidence of impact, scalability and system value.
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Idea, Problem or Need
The unmet needs are the starting point for innovation. OROT relies on the experience of clinicians and users to define these needs. OROT then selects the companies best aligned with the needs and its philosophy of work.
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Validation and Co-development
We give entrepreneurs access to our sites, data, and people, and help them develop their solutions in partnership with users and experts.
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Experimentation
We help entrepreneurs refine their solutions using iterative approach and methodologies such as design thinking and human-centered design.
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Evaluation
The value-created, effectiveness and feasibility of technologies are formally assessed via research or quality assurance studies
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Commercialization and Diffusion
Companies refine their value-based business model and ultimately plan their market release.
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Integration and Sustainability
OROT works closely with Santé Québec and the Ministry of Health and Social Services (MSSS) to define the path for procuring and integrating new technologies throughout the healthcare system.
Some Concrete Ways to Work With OROT
Access the OROT Platform
For organizations seeking ongoing access to OROT’s health innovation ecosystem, curated insights and learning environment. Platform participation can provide access to selected reports, ecosystem programming, learning opportunities and relevant stakeholder connections, while helping organizations stay close to emerging health-system priorities and identify opportunities for deeper collaboration.
Deliver a Defined Project
For partners with a specific need, solution or innovation challenge requiring structured support. Project engagements may include co-design, validation, experimentation, evaluation, integration planning or other defined activities based on the objectives and complexity of the work.
Build a Strategic Collaboration
For organizations interested in supporting shared innovation priorities, ecosystem capacity or longer-term health-system impact. Strategic collaborations may include jointly supported initiatives, innovation programs, learning activities or other forms of sustained engagement aligned with mutual priorities. Engagements are shaped around strategic fit, organizational readiness, available capacity and applicable clinical, operational, ethical and privacy requirements.
Partner With Us
Every engagement begins with a conversation. We’ll work with you to understand your opportunity, define the desired outcomes and determine the most appropriate way to collaborate. Whether through platform participation, a defined project or a strategic partnership, the scope of each engagement is tailored to the nature, complexity and objectives of the work.
OROT charges fees for its services with a minimum charge of $7,500.
