Welcome to UC S.O.L.V.E. Health Tech
Welcome to UC S.O.L.V.E. Health Tech, the first health incubation partner dedicated to helping digital health companies design and enhance their products to better meet the needs of people and health systems that are often overlooked. Our goal is to bridge the gap between digital health products and platforms and make a real world impact. By working directly with digital health innovators, patients, communities, and health systems, we integrate fairness and accessibility into every stage of the technology development process.
At UC S.O.L.V.E. Health Tech, we tackle critical challenges in digital health to ensure that innovation is not just groundbreaking, but also accessible and effective for everyone. We explore usability barriers in mobile health applications to ensure they work for diverse patient populations. We assess the readiness of safety-net care settings to adopt new technologies, collaborating with digital health companies to adapt their products for under-resourced communities.
As a university-based incubation partner housed within a safety-net healthcare system, we work with digital health companies to design, develop, implement, and evaluate technologies with a focus on community and population health. Our initiative spans across multiple University of California (UC) campuses—UC San Francisco, UC Davis, and UC Berkeley. Our impact extends far beyond these institutions. We are dedicated to ensuring that digital health solutions, once commercialized, are accessible, effective, and beneficial for all.
Our Mission
To advance digital health by collaborating with multi-sectoral partners to create solutions that benefit all individuals.
Our Vision
A future where digital health technology is accessible and effective, benefiting all individuals through innovative and fair solutions.
Our Core Values
Reach
Prioritizing fairness and accessibility in all aspects of digital health, ensuring that all individuals have access to the benefits of health technology.
Collaboration
Building partnerships across sectors to create holistic, community-driven solutions that meet diverse needs.
Integrity
Upholding transparency, accountability, and ethical standards in every initiative and partnership.
Innovation
Embracing creativity and forward-thinking to develop new, impactful solutions for digital health challenges.
Empowerment
Enabling individuals and communities to take control of their health through accessible technology.
Sustainability
Committing to long-term, scalable solutions that create lasting impact for communities in need.
Our Story
We started UC S.O.L.V.E. Health Tech to ensure that patients like ours are not left behind as digital health rapidly evolves. Too often, new technologies are built for the technology enabled users, leaving out the very people who could benefit the most. Our goal is to change that by helping digital health tools reach more patients and truly improve care in real-world settings.
As researchers with backgrounds in healthcare delivery and digital innovation, we saw a recurring gap in our academic work: a disconnect between what patients need and what the digital health market provides. We also noticed that the insights generated in research rarely find their way into the hands of those building digital health tools. That is what led us to launch UC S.O.L.V.E. Health Tech in 2016: to bridge this gap and bring evidence into practice.
Since then, we have grown our work into consultative services, partnering with organizations across the private and public sectors. We help design, evaluate, and refine digital health products using proven approaches from implementation science, so that these tools are not only innovative, but also practical, effective, and built to meet the needs of real patients.
In the News
Learn more about our academic-industry collaborations in leading publications such as Harvard Business Review and the Health Affairs Blog.
Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved
Operationalizing Academic-Industry Partnerships to Advance Digital Health Equity: Lessons Learned
California Health Care Foundation
Bridging the Digital Health Divide: How Providers and Plans Can Help Communities Better Adopt Digital Health Tools
Journal of the American Medical Association
A Continued Focus on Equity Through Pharmacoequity and Digital Health Equity: Two Current Viewpoints
American Hospital Association
Applying an Equity Lens to Digital Health, American Hospital Association
At UC S.O.L.V.E. Health Tech, we are dedicated to creating accessible and impactful solutions that transform digital health into a tool for empowerment for all. Connect with us!