Advancing Healthcare Innovation with the Mayo Clinic–ASU Health Care Accelerator and Industry

The Mayo Clinic and Arizona State University Health Care Accelerator is designed to move healthcare innovations from early promise to real world clinical impact through clinical validation, expert mentorship, and commercialization support. In this episode of HIMSSCast, Alex Flores, General Manager, Health and Life Sciences Vertical at Intel, is joined by Dr. Steven J. Lester, Medical Director of Discovery Oasis and Co-Founder of the Mayo Clinic–ASU Health Care Accelerator, to discuss how the program bridges the gap between prototype success and deployment at scale within health systems.

Learn about:

• Why sustained industry engagement is critical, particularly as AI adoption accelerates
• How edge compute, ecosystem collaboration, and execution discipline are becoming essential to translating innovation into everyday care delivery
• How Intel’s long-standing role as an industry sponsor supports startups in designing for real clinical workflows, infrastructure readiness, and long term scalability