ACCELERATE INNOVATION
Curbing the growth of healthcare spending is best done through innovation. We serve as both a promoter and supporter of new healthcare innovations in the state and welcome ideas to support your efforts. We address challenges that come with innovation, including lack of awareness, lack of partners, lack of reliable data to demonstrate value, and lack of funding.
WAYS WE CAN SUPPORT
Promote
We bring broad awareness to innovations to inspire replication, enhancements, and expanded participation.
Assist
We support innovators to succeed and scale through data analysis, advice on market and policy barriers, and introductions that can forge new synergistic partnerships.
Convene
We convene multi-stakeholder initiatives and provide a trusted setting to achieve collective solutions.
OUR PROCESS:
Submit
Submit your idea via our form.
Screen
We conduct a screening process to ensure your innovation aligns with our priorities and evaluate how to best support you.
Support
We support your innovation through promotion, connection with other innovators, offering technical support, and in some instances, provide funding.
Track
We track progress on your innovation and make modifications on how we help as it grows.
Innovations We Support
We support healthcare innovation by promoting new ideas, assisting with data and partnerships, and convening stakeholders to drive collective solutions. Through these efforts, we help innovators overcome barriers and scale their impact across Utah’s healthcare system.
Get Healthy Utah
Get Healthy Utah works to create healthier communities by promoting active living, healthy eating, and overall well-being.
Digital Health Interoperability Pilot
The One Utah Health Collaborative, in partnership with Governor Spencer Cox and Leavitt Partners, is leading Utah’s Digital Health Interoperability Pilot.
Shoreline Health
Shoreline Health provides standardized educational materials with quick, easy to access videos, on cancer diagnosis to patients and their support system.
Colorectal Cancer Screenings
The Colllaborative’s Colorectal Cancer Screening prevention initiative is aimed at improving early detection and preventive care across Utah.
Population Health Center (UofU Health)
The University of Utah’s Population Health Center in Rose Park offers integrated healthcare that addresses physical, mental, and oral health, along with social challenges like housing and food insecurity.
Vamos Health
Vamos Health is a network of primary care clinics designed to expand access to and provide high quality, culturally competent care to the Spanish speaking community.
USARA
USARA's Utah Recovery Friendly Workplace Initiative supports businesses in creating environments that assist employees facing substance use disorder (SUD).
Project Embrace
Project Embrace provides access to unused medical supplies and equipment for underserved communities, reducing waste while improving healthcare access.
Innovation for Justice (i4J)
Innovation for Justice (i4J) is a social justice lab housed at the University of Arizona and the University of Utah.
Featured Innovation
Digital Health Interoperability Pilot
Description
The Collaborative, in partnership with Governor Spencer Cox and Leavitt Partners, launched a statewide public-private initiative to advance digital health interoperability and drive real-world applications of modern data-sharing technology in healthcare. Since its launch at the Utah State Capitol in April 2023, the Digital Health Interoperability Pilot has engaged more than a dozen organizations in testing solutions that reduce administrative burdens, empower patients, and improve healthcare data exchange.
The pilot envisions a future where providers, payers, and individuals can seamlessly access and share clinical and claims data—without needing multiple portals or creating extra burdens for providers and patients. By leveraging HL7® FHIR® APIs, Utah is advancing federal interoperability efforts, including TEFCA and CMS rules, to make healthcare data more connected and accessible.
Building on this progress, the pilot is now shifting from testing to actual implementation, reinforcing Utah’s leadership in modernizing health data exchange. The Digital Health Interoperability Pilot workgroup meets regularly and welcomes new participants. If your organization is interested in contributing, contact info@uthealthcollaborative.org.
Goals and Objectives
As we move into 2025, the focus is on turning pilot insights into real-world application, further strengthening Utah’s role as a national leader in digital health interoperability. The workgroup has prioritized six key strategies to enhance health data exchange and reduce administrative burdens:
✅ Clinical Data Exchange – Seamless patient record sharing across providers & payers
✅ Prior Authorization – Faster approvals to reduce delays in care
✅ FHIR API Endpoint Directory – Simplified discovery of health data connections
✅ Digital Identity Federation – Secure authentication for patient access
✅ Digital Insurance Card – Easy digital access to insurance details
✅ Public Health Data Modernization – Strengthening statewide health data infrastructure
By advancing federal interoperability frameworks (TEFCA, CMS, and ONC guidelines), Utah continues to drive healthcare innovation and efficiency statewide.
Innovation Advisory Board
What is the IAB? The IAB is an appointed group of individuals who review requests for the Collaborative to support innovation projects. We are honored to have this distinguished committee as a part of the Collaborative.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Monitor the state landscape for health-related needs, drivers of healthcare costs, and health inequities
- Seek out and identify innovations across the state
- Design and maintain an innovation portfolio that guides the allocation of resources
- Create and apply a framework to review innovation requests and provide recommendations on how the Collaborative can best support applicants
- Advise the Collaborative on what activities to undertake to further promote and inspire innovation in the state
INNOVATION ADVISORY
BOARD MEMBERS
BOARD MEMBERS
Current Priority Areas
The Collaborative supports all forms of health innovation. Through a public input process, the Collaborative identified the following four areas as having an outsized impact in achieving our goals. The Collaborative prioritizes innovations and initiatives that align with these areas:​
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Primary Care - Utahns have and use access to preventative and primary care
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Behavioral Health - Utahns have intuitive access to integrated Behavioral health care
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Data infrastructure - Utahns personal health records are fully available to them and to those who care for them to improve health outcomes and reduce the expense of duplicate care
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Coverage Areas - Utahns have appropriate health insurance coverage to access the health services they need
LEARN MORE
If you would like to learn more about the IAB's work please email info@utahhealthcollaborative.org