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Tejash Shah, Mario ElDebs, Scott Rutherford & Yacine Hadjiat

The Role of Innovation and Technology Centers in Public-Private Healthcare Collaborations

Health systems need a faster route from research to real-world impact. Innovation and technology centers provide it—connecting academia, providers, and industry to validate, scale, and embed solutions where care is delivered. The aim is not one-off pilots, but an enterprise capability that continually turns ideas into better access, experience, and outcomes.

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The goal is clear: to democratize innovation across every domain of healthcare delivery, discovery and learning, and make innovation an enterprise-wide capability rather than a specialized function.

R&D only changes lives when discovery meets delivery. Integrated centers close that gap: they align universities with clinical services, create neutral ground for industry collaboration, and run real-world validations that de-risk adoption. Global models point the way—from Singapore’s Academic Health Systems and the UK’s AHSCs to Dubai Health’s integrated academic health system—where structured pipelines move proven ideas into practice at system scale.

When Innovation Becomes Infrastructure:
How Centers Orchestrate Bench-to-Bedside

What you’ll learn

How innovation centers translate “bench to bedside” through proof-of-concepts and clinical trials in care settings
Why academic–clinical integration (AHS, AHSC) accelerates validation and adoption across whole systems
What governance and partnerships enable scale—neutral platforms linking academia, providers, start-ups, and industry
Where early success shows momentum—wearables validation, implementation in providers, and grant-funded venture creation
Which operating goal matters most—making innovation an enterprise capability with a continuous, system-wide pipeline

Tejash Shah is an emergency medicine physician and Managing Director in Accenture’s Global Healthcare practice. Tejash’s experience focuses on helping healthcare organizations to reinvent how care is delivered by harmonizing humans and technology to increase access and improve experience for patients and providers.

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Dr. Tejash Shah

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Mario is a Senior Manager in Accenture’s Strategy practice in the Middle East. Mario has consulted public health regulators and healthcare organizations for more than ten years around their digital health transformation strategies, with a focus on activating future-ready business models.

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Mario ElDebs

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Scott is a Senior Advisor to the CEO of Dubai Health, with a portfolio spanning research and innovation partnerships. Scott has worked across the UK, Ireland, and UAE in roles spanning university research commercialization, economic development, and regional innovation ecosystem building.

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Scott Rutherford

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Yacine Hadjiat is a physician and healthcare innovator specializing in healthcare technologies, neurosciences, public health, and health systems transformation. He currently serves as the Head of Innovation in Health Science and Digital Health at Dubai Health, and Associate Professor of Innovation at the Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences (MBRU) in Dubai. Yacine’s career encompasses clinical as well as academic research and executive leadership roles in the life-sciences sector in Europe, US, Asia, and more recently in the Middle East region.