In February 2017, CABHI launched the Researcher-Clinician Partnership Program (RCP2), a third program to drive innovation and economic development in the seniors’ care sector. RCP2 connects point-of-care clinicians with university-based researchers to collaboratively design, test and validate advanced-stage products, services or health practices in real-world care settings.
By fostering collaboration upfront, the RCP2 funding model promotes the cross-fertilization of ideas and feedback from a broader range of perspectives during development, testing and validation stages to help accelerate innovations to market and to ensure uptake and adoption in the marketplace after they are launched.
Qualifying innovations are at an advanced stage of development, ready for pilot testing and evaluation, and have the potential to be scaled across multiple organizations in North America. CABHI will support eligible project costs directly associated with trial testing, up to $600,000 CAD per project, with an initial funding of $2.4 million CAD to be awarded over 18 months, starting in September 2017. Funding is provided directly to the host institution employing Principal Investigators of qualifying projects.
The response to the first deadline for expressions of interest by the end of March 2017 was very positive, with 35 proposals submitted for consideration. We look forward to notifying successful finalists in early July.