The Isle of Man is issuing an international call to tech entrepreneurs, startups and established digital health companies as it launches its 2026 Innovation Challenge, this year focused entirely on transforming the Island’s health and social care system.
After three years centring on FinTech, Cleantech and Data & AI, the government is redirecting the Challenge towards one of the nation’s most urgent pressures: meeting rising healthcare demand, tackling workforce shortages and advancing more integrated, patient-centred care.
Organised by the Department for Enterprise’s Executive Agencies, the Challenge is being delivered in partnership with the Department of Health and Social Care, Manx Care, and Public Health Isle of Man. The initiative combines public-sector expertise, clinical leadership and the Island’s unique environment as a “national testbed”, offering innovators the chance to pilot, refine and scale real-world solutions.
The 2026 programme will centre on three priority themes:
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