A Strategic Collaboration to Drive Health System Transformation
GuideWell and Plug and Play have joined forces to launch a HealthTech Accelerator focused on solving some of the healthcare industry's most pressing challenges. Through this partnership, we'll engage high-potential startups from around the world to co-develop and validate innovative solutions within a real-world healthcare environment, helping to fuel a thriving innovation ecosystem based in Central Florida.
Check out the Latest Accelerator Kickoff at the GuideWell Innovation Center
Accelerating Innovation for Health and Community Impact
This partnership helps GuideWell stay ahead of the curve by connecting with emerging technologies, accelerating speed to innovation, and improving outcomes across the payer and provider landscape.
Here are a few key impact areas we're focused on:
- › Streamlining Operations
- › Enhancing Care Navigation
- › Reducing Administrative Burden
- › Driving Medical Cost Savings
- › Improving Member & Provider Experience
Beyond advancing healthcare innovation, the accelerator is expected to deliver significant economic impact on a regional level.
By attracting global startups and unlocking new capital, the program will:
- › Spur job creation and local entrepreneurship
- › Position Florida as a premier health innovation hub
- › Strengthen collaboration between startups, corporates, and healthcare providers
- › Expand the local talent pipeline by connecting universities, founders, and industry leaders
The GuideWell HealthTech Accelerator is a 12-week, business-led innovation program designed to identify, validate, and scale transformative health solutions.
Hosted at the GuideWell Innovation Center in Lake Nona, this accelerator connects cutting-edge startups with GuideWell leaders, business units, and clinical experts to tackle real-world challenges in health care.
Through structured programming and real-time collaboration, this initiative accelerates progress in areas like operational efficiency, care access, patient outcomes, and cost optimization.
- › Dedicated Curriculum – Strategic education, workshops, and themed Focus Weeks
- › Mentorship Network – Access to 1,000+ domain experts, advisors, and corporate leaders
- › Bridge to Enterprise – Formal introductions to enterprise leaders, innovators and Venture Capitalist network
- › Real-World Pilots & Proof of Concepts – Opportunity to co-develop and test solutions with GuideWell teams
Focus Weeks
Focused weeks of activity throughout the cohort, where Plug and Play hosts additional educational workshops, events, office hours, and our monthly mixer. Focus Weeks bring together the local innovation ecosystem around specific themes relevant to GuideWell.
Office Hours
One-on-one sessions where startups meet with mentors, business units, executives and experts that are engaged in the program.
Expo Day
Accelerator startups pitch at this public on-site event, marking the end of each program. Expos are an excellent avenue to showcase innovation and technology to the greater health care community.
