CAMS Innovation Platform — Health Innovation Services

For healthcare innovators, one of the biggest hurdles to commercialization is proving that a product actually works in real clinical settings. Alberta-based startups, scaleups, and established companies developing medical or health technologies can address this challenge through the CAMS Innovation Platform — Health Innovation Services at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology. Rather than traditional grant funding, this program offers hands-on, non-repayable support by giving businesses access to realistic clinical environments where ideas can be tested, refined, and validated before reaching patients.

Through NAIT’s Centre for Advanced Medical Simulation, participating companies can work directly with clinicians, healthcare professionals, and subject-matter experts to gather formative feedback and observe how their technology performs with real end-users. The platform includes a wide range of high-fidelity simulation spaces, from hospital and home-care settings to emergency and ambulance scenarios, allowing innovators to test usability, safety, and workflows in conditions that closely mirror real-world care. This type of applied testing can significantly reduce risk, uncover design issues early, and support stronger evidence for investors, customers, and health system partners.

Support is customized based on each project’s needs and may offset part of the cost of testing, validation, and market readiness activities. For healthcare businesses in Alberta looking to accelerate development and strengthen their path to market, exploring the full scope of CAMS Health Innovation Services can help determine how this opportunity fits with their growth plans.