MEMBER BENEFITS

The Center for Future Health is an ideal place for a cadre of visionary corporations to meet, recommend research and standards, and enable the development, manufacturing, distribution, installation, and adoption of the Personal Health system. By focusing on "health-in-the-home" through invention of a system of technologies and services, Center Members will collectively expand the existing health care continuum. This research will provide a platform and springboard for many business ventures over the next twenty years.

Research

Access to Technology for Research Purposes

You will have access to our technology for research purposes without paying a royalty. Commercialization will require a royalty-bearing licensing agreement.

Intellectual Property - Privileged Position

Through our regular communications with you, you will be current about what we are working on. Then, as we submit patent disclosures, you will be notified and have 90 days to indicate your interest in exclusive or non exclusive licensing for specific geographies and fields of use.

Focused Research Projects

As a member, you may sponsor a specific research project ("Focused Research Project") that could address a particular need. You will have first access to an exclusive or non-exclusive royalty-bearing license to intellectual property arising out of the Focused Research Project, within your organization's appropriate field of use.

All sponsors of Focused Research Projects are active members of the Center for Future Health. As such, they have access to review and license all core technology produced in the Center during their tenure, are members of the Strategic Advisory Board, and are invited to participate in academic forums, symposia, and research reviews, as described in the table below.

Access to the Smart Medical Home as an Independent Test Bed

The Smart Medical Home, located within the University's Center for Future Health, is the most controlled environment available outside of a person's home in which to do research, and is our setting for research in pre-concept testing, concept testing, pilots, and prototype testing. Research for Center Members in the Smart Medical Home is conducted as a Focused Research Project. Each project has a Principal Investigator from the Center and a Project Coordinator. All projects involving human subjects will follow the RSRB (Research Subject Review Board) process and HIPAA regulations through the University. Projects are defined jointly, and project plans and budgets are agreed upon before work starts.

Employee as a Technical Liaison

With the approval of the CFH Director, a Member may spend an extended period (from a week to several months) at the Rochester site, for a fee, interacting with graduate students and faculty as a visiting scientist. The Member shall be involved in a variety of activities as may be mutually agreed upon by the Member and CFH.

Interaction with Graduate Students

Members will have the opportunity to meet and interact with graduate students who are immediately prepared to work in the industry. Members are encouraged to provide internships for students at their companies. Final selection will be mutually agreed upon between the Member and the student.

Annual Symposium and Monthly Forums

Members will be invited to attend an annual Members Symposium. Attendance at this symposium is limited to representatives from Member companies and advisory panels.

Strategic Advisory Board Membership

Corporate Members at the $100K/year and $50K/year level will enjoy the full benefits of the collaboration with other visionary companies, including active participation on the Strategic Advisory Board. This three-year commitment provides a neutral space for dialogue and enables continuity of leadership and research.

Role of the Strategic Advisory Board

• Reviews research proposals from students, faculty, and other sources and makes recommendations for funding
• Makes priority recommendations regarding platforms, patents, principles, programs, and policies
• Reviews invention disclosures and suggest patent action
• Critiques the progress and direction of each research project
• Provides access to from Center Stakeholder group for user dialogue and collaboration
• Addresses industry-wide strategies for creating low cost/high performance consumer technologies and services, building on Center results
• Identifies barriers to industrial implementation and establishes joint projects to address them
• Influences the creation of guidelines for configuring effective spin-offs

Expectations of Strategic Advisory Board Members - One to Two per Corporation

• Meet twice a year, once being contiguous with the Annual Symposium (Total of two days of Board meetings plus Symposium)
• Ensure engagement of your corporation in getting full use of the relationship
• Provide additional donations of equipment, intellectual property, and educational grants

Stakeholders

The Stakeholder relationship, $25K/year for two years, is reserved for:

• Organizations which will benefit or be affected by the results of the technology but will not manufacture, such as assistive living facility owners, home builders, pharmacy chains, service providers; or
• Manufacturers that are start-ups or considering a larger commitment within two years, as a way to have input to the IAB.

Benefits of being a Stakeholder

• Attend Annual Symposium and Monthly Forums
• Lead a Forum
• Submit issues for the Strategic Advisory Board to address
• Provide input to informational requests and research queries
• Network with lead corporate members
• Help shape the new business models

MEMBERSHIP LEVELS

Membership levels are described below. The benefits above the double lines are the entry point into the collaboration. After that, members and stakeholders may participate in sponsoring focused projects, having an employee as a visiting scientist or using our test beds with their own related technology for an additional fee, as described below.