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 allow entrepreneurs access to our sites, data and people and help them develop their solutions using methodologies such as design thinking and human-centered design.
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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 the Innovation Bureau of the Ministry of Health and Social Services (MSSS) to define the path of procurement and integration of new technologies across the health care system.
Expertise and Support
We help partners move from unmet needs to scalable adoption.
- Co-development with Users: Iterative user-driven design of solutions in partnership with clinicians, employees, patients, caregivers, managers, researchers, and industry, ensuring usability, feasibility, and clinical relevance.
- Partnerships & Funding: Structuring win–win public–private collaborations and mobilizing resources (AI grants, philanthropy, venture).
- Evaluation & Integration Pathways with Industry Partners: Embedded evaluation of value for patients, teams, and the organization based on the value-based healthcare model. Guidance for procurement and system-level adoption for industry partners.
Training and Knowledge Sharing
We build innovation capacity for sustainable transformation.
- User-Driven Design: Practical training in design thinking, prototyping, and desirability–viability–feasibility frameworks.
- Partnering in Healthcare: How to collaborate with the public health sector for impactful innovation.
Research in Innovation
We generate evidence and new knowledge on innovation in health.
- Impact of Innovation, Hubs & Labs: Research on outcomes and value of innovation practices, hubs, living labs & incubators.
- Design and Innovation Methodologies: Advancing user-driven co-creation approaches adapted to public healthcare.
Partner with us
OROT charges fees for its services with a minimum charge of $7,500.
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