Crowdsourcing clinician feedback to power digital health innovation


The best ideas to improve hospitals and clinics often come from the frontlines of clinical practice.
The Umano Lab is an online research lab and accelerator for submitting ideas for new health information technology services.

Research laboratory:
Tell us how the creative application of software could help improve clinical outcomes.
Propose a solution to an unmet clinical need and offer feedback to other proposals.
The best proposals will be piloted as a clinical trial - at no cost to you.

Accelerator model:
Software is designed and built by professional engineers from our lab.
They own and retain the intellectual property they build.
In order to ensure software is maintained and benefits as many patients as possible - our staff engineers are encouraged to opensource or commercialize their software.

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What:

An online research laboratory and accelerator that gathers tangible clinical problems and sources new digital health, data science and information technology projects to IT departments of healthcare organizations and open-source engineers in order to launch pilots of new services.


Our Values:

Benefits of Joining:

For Clinicians

Propose ideas to benefit your patients and receive professional development opportunities by participating in pilots and be invited to join an ongoing research group.

  • Propose helpful ideas to make difficult jobs more efficient.
  • May get your ideas implemented in their workplace.
  • If selected, can work as an Investigator to lead a pilot of your concept.
  • Will receive assistance on framing business cases, designing software and recruiting assistants.
  • Will be supported with pursuing CN3, CN4 certifications (clinical ladder advancement), IRB submissions, publications and any professional goals.
  • Based on your quality of submissions, consistency of logging in and quality of feedback they offer to others - can be selected as a Clinical Technology Champion and be invited to our research group for more opportunities.
Submit a Clinical Idea

For Engineers

Pilot innovative projects that solve pressing health issues for doctors and nurses, while learning about the healthcare industry and managing clinical trials.

  • Make an impact by helping pilot services that help real patients, doctors, nurses and the healthcare industry.
  • Choose between a list of web, mobile or data science projects that you want to apply to.
  • Sharpen your software engineering and skills as you tackle challenging projects.
  • Learn design principles and project management as you evaluate project requirements before programming.
  • Become one of the rare software engineers who has co-lead a clinical trial and is published in medical journals.
  • Based on your time commitment and project management skills, be awarded with a leadership position to lead and pilot future healthcare projects in our research group.
Apply to Engineering Team

For Health Systems

Promote technology development, crowdsource the expertise of your clinicians, secure frontline staff support and evangelize innovation in your institution.

  • Hear from your frontline staff what their most pressing clinical concerns are.
  • Receive a rank-ordered list of the top projects and proposals, alongside specific clinical use cases and business outcomes.
  • Can decide which new projects to sponsor.
  • Promote customer engagement by selecting Clinical Technology Champions to partner with IT on ongoing pilots and quality improvement efforts.
  • Receive help with software design, clinical validation, ROI statements and publications to evangelize your institution.
  • With little to no effort, can launch a series of staff ideathons and hackathons to support strategic initiatives.
  • May launch custom global competitions through our RFP process to crowdsource the best ideas.
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Contribute to transform the future of healthcare delivery.