The Canterbury District Health Board recognises that innovation is a fundamental process that is at the heart of improving healthcare. The CDHB wishes to continue to be a vigorous supporter of innovation that has the potential to improve the health of its regional community and beyond. Via Innovations has been set up to reflect this support. The Via team work with people with good ideas, from anywhere in the health system, and provide them with a range of support to get their innovations out to the people and communities that need them.
- Connecting Ideas to Industry
- Connecting Innovators to Investors
- Connecting Health to Enterprise
- Recent Highlights
Via Innovations is proud to be partnering with ChristchurchNZ, Ministry of Awesome, Te Ohaka and Te Papa Hauora to deliver the HealthTech Supernode Challenge 2022 - Canterbury-based innovators apply here - closing date 20th March
Coming up - Via Innovations Director Anya Hornsey will be talking at the national Digital Health Week conference in March 2022 on commercialising DHB digital health innovations here
Via Innovations and Medical Physics & BioEngineering teams recently joined together for an intellectual property strategy workshop here
You can read about the Consortium for Medical Device Technologies MedTech Bites article profiling Via Innovations here
You can watch Via Innovations and CDHB's Medical Physics & BioEngineering teams talking about innovation and industry engagement at Canterbury Tech's networking event here
Read about or fourth annual Via Innovations and Te Papa Hauroa Health Precinct hosted TechWeek Techie Brekkie here
Read about our Ngā Ohia Manomano mō te Hauora Pai Ake | Speed Dating Ideas for Better Healthcare Workshop held on 5th May 2021 here
Read about Blue Mirror's PPE donning and doffing training tool trial with CDHB here
Via Innovations were a proud supporter of The 2020 HealthTech SuperNode Challenge, results here
Watch CDHB Innovator Martin Than's HiNZ presentation on Wayfind, a new clinical decision support tool here
Read about how Via Innovations has supported health system waste reduction company Medsalv here
