Digital Health Sandbox

Program at a Glance

Strategic Initiative: Digital Health

Business Area: Health Innovation

Priority Area(s): This program is trying to enable patient impacts through interoperability of technologies, databases, or decision support tools.

Program Guide: Digital Health Sandbox - Program Guide

Eligibility

Alberta-based: Yes

Organization Type: Academic Institutions & Researchers
Small to Medium Enterprise

Overview

Objectives:

This Program is designed to support interoperability of technologies, databases, or decision support tools applied to health, including:

Enhance interoperability between clinical products from different vendors, based on leading interoperability standards.
Allow for regulation compliant communication and/or data-sharing that support workflows of physicians and patient care teams.
Effectively mitigate risks related to privacy or cybersecurity while significantly enhancing data sharing capacity for care and innovation.
Software or web portal used to identify, characterize, and quantify patient populations based on real world evidence (RWE) or real world data (RWD).

The objectives of the Program are to:

Strategically invest in research and innovation that aim to benefit Alberta.
Support SMEs to develop and commercialize innovations.

Funding: Up to $300,000

Term: Up to 18 months

The key outcomes (i.e., measurable effects) the program will accomplish for the benefit of Albertans:

$ invested in areas of research, innovation and commercialization.
Revenue growth for Alberta-based SMEs.
# of new hires (jobs) in Alberta in SMEs funded by Alberta Innovates.
Effective and efficient delivery of care.

See the Program Guide for more details.

Eligibility

The Digital Health Sandbox program is open to:

Alberta-based Post-Secondary Institutions and Government Entities; or
For-Profit Small-Medium sized Enterprises (SME) that are:
- A significant physical and corporate operational presence in Alberta.
- Appropriate Alberta ownership.
- Discernable intent that operational benefits will flow primarily within the province of Alberta.
Technology being developed by the Project must be within TRL levels 6-8

See the Program Guide for more details.

How To Apply

Review and familiarize yourself with the Program Guide.
Complete the Full Application via SmartSimple, the online application portal.

Application Deadline

Applications must be submitted by 4:00 p.m. Mountain Time on November 6, 2025.

Evaluation Process

Applications are reviewed by Alberta Innovates employees and external expert reviewers.

The application review process is highly competitive and only the highest-quality projects will be considered for funding. All investment decisions are at the sole discretion of Alberta Innovates.

Additional Alberta Innovates Supports and Resources

Health Tech Commercialization Supports – Alberta Innovates partners with a variety of other organizations in the ecosystem to provide support for Health Innovators. View the Health Tech Commercialization Supports page here.

Entrepreneurial Investments – Alberta Innovates offers a variety of related, high demand entrepreneurial investment programs that are of interest to SMEs. View the Entrepreneurial Investments page here.

Technology Development Advisors – provide front-line business coaching and technology development advice to small and medium-size enterprises in technology or knowledge-based industries. View the Technology Development Advisors page here.

Regional Innovation Networks – Entrepreneur-centric, community-based networks with the goal of providing programs and services to accelerate growth of technology and knowledge-based businesses in Alberta jurisdictions. View the Regional Innovation Networks page here.

Contact

Sunil Rajput, PhD

Executive Director, Health Innovation

780-603-3905

Sunil.Rajput@albertainnovates.ca

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