6th Annual Innovators Challenge
Put Your Innovation in Front of the People Shaping Virtual Care
Have a solution transforming care delivery—or a proven program expanding access beyond traditional healthcare settings? The 2027 ATA Innovators Challenge is your opportunity to showcase what works and connect with the leaders shaping the next era of virtual care.
The Challenge brings breakthrough virtual and digital health solutions and proven care delivery programs to the attention of healthcare executives, investors, policymakers, and technology leaders actively advancing virtual care at scale.
Whether you’re bringing a market-ready technology to market or demonstrating the impact of an established care model, we want to hear your story.
Submission Deadline: March 5, 2026
The Challenge brings breakthrough virtual and digital health solutions and proven care delivery programs to the attention of healthcare executives, investors, policymakers, and technology leaders actively advancing virtual care at scale.
Whether you’re bringing a market-ready technology to market or demonstrating the impact of an established care model, we want to hear your story.
Submission Deadline: March 5, 2026
Two Ways to Showcase Your Impact
1. Next Generation Innovators
For companies advancing market-ready solutions or nearing commercialization.
Showcase technologies and digital health solutions addressing critical challenges in care delivery, access, and patient outcomes. Three categories highlight innovations with the potential to make a meaningful difference across the healthcare landscape.
Inside the Walls / In-Patient Care Solutions:
Digital solutions improving inpatient care delivery, efficiency, and outcomes across hospitals, rehabilitation centers, long-term care facilities, and other clinical environments—including virtual care for isolated patients and underserved communities.
Care at Home Delivery Solutions:
Software-driven digital and consumer health tools that extend care beyond traditional facilities through real-time monitoring, personal health data integration, and accessible, personalized care at home.
Femtech and Women’s Health:
Technology-enabled, consumer-centric solutions addressing women’s health across chronic conditions, diagnostics, pregnancy and postpartum, reproductive health, and overall well-being.
Is your solution ready to make an impact? Bring it to the forefront of the virtual care industry.
Showcase technologies and digital health solutions addressing critical challenges in care delivery, access, and patient outcomes. Three categories highlight innovations with the potential to make a meaningful difference across the healthcare landscape.
Inside the Walls / In-Patient Care Solutions:
Digital solutions improving inpatient care delivery, efficiency, and outcomes across hospitals, rehabilitation centers, long-term care facilities, and other clinical environments—including virtual care for isolated patients and underserved communities.
Care at Home Delivery Solutions:
Software-driven digital and consumer health tools that extend care beyond traditional facilities through real-time monitoring, personal health data integration, and accessible, personalized care at home.
Femtech and Women’s Health:
Technology-enabled, consumer-centric solutions addressing women’s health across chronic conditions, diagnostics, pregnancy and postpartum, reproductive health, and overall well-being.
Is your solution ready to make an impact? Bring it to the forefront of the virtual care industry.
2. Clinical Innovators: System Success Stories
For organizations delivering proven, scalable programs that extend care beyond traditional healthcare settings.
The Clinical Innovators category spotlights real-world success stories from health systems, hospital networks, provider-led innovation hubs, payers, clinics, FQHCs, community organizations, and their international equivalents. Showcase programs that bring care into homes, communities, and underserved populations, with demonstrated results beyond the pilot stage.
This category celebrates these real-world success stories—not early-stage concepts or vendor pitches. Submissions must come from the organization directly serving patients or members.
We’re looking for programs that demonstrate:
Expanded Access to Care:
Hospital-at-home, remote patient monitoring at scale, virtual specialty networks, community-based virtual care, and other models extending care beyond facility walls.
Measurable Outcomes:
Improvements in patient access, clinical results, cost and operational efficiency, workforce impact, or health equity.
Real-World Implementation:
Programs with meaningful scale, maturity, and demonstrated impact—not early pilots or untested concepts.
Collaborative Innovation:
Programs that bring together care delivery organizations and technology partners to solve real healthcare challenges.
Has your organization built a virtual care program that’s making a difference? Share your results and help demonstrate what’s possible.
The Clinical Innovators category spotlights real-world success stories from health systems, hospital networks, provider-led innovation hubs, payers, clinics, FQHCs, community organizations, and their international equivalents. Showcase programs that bring care into homes, communities, and underserved populations, with demonstrated results beyond the pilot stage.
This category celebrates these real-world success stories—not early-stage concepts or vendor pitches. Submissions must come from the organization directly serving patients or members.
We’re looking for programs that demonstrate:
Expanded Access to Care:
Hospital-at-home, remote patient monitoring at scale, virtual specialty networks, community-based virtual care, and other models extending care beyond facility walls.
Measurable Outcomes:
Improvements in patient access, clinical results, cost and operational efficiency, workforce impact, or health equity.
Real-World Implementation:
Programs with meaningful scale, maturity, and demonstrated impact—not early pilots or untested concepts.
Collaborative Innovation:
Programs that bring together care delivery organizations and technology partners to solve real healthcare challenges.
Has your organization built a virtual care program that’s making a difference? Share your results and help demonstrate what’s possible.
Don’t keep your innovation to yourself. Show the industry what’s possible.
The ATA Innovators Challenge offers an opportunity to put your work in front of the people influencing how virtual care is developed, implemented, and scaled.
Why Participate?
Increase visibility among healthcare executives, investors, policymakers, and technology leaders.
Showcase your impact by highlighting the solutions or programs addressing real-world healthcare challenges.
Build industry connections with leaders and organizations advancing virtual care.
Share what’s working and contribute to the broader conversation on expanding access, improving outcomes, and transforming care delivery.
Ready to Put Your Innovation on the Map?
Whether you’re commercializing a promising technology or scaling a proven care delivery program, the 2027 ATA Innovators Challenge is your opportunity to share your work with the virtual care community.
Challenge Hosts
Samir Batra (Co-Host & Judge)
Managing Partner, HIP Fund; ATA Advisor
Susan Solinsky (Co-Host & Judge)
Operating Partner, Composition Capital; Kayne Anderson