Hospital Productivity Innovation Grant

No. The $100,000 value is provided in professional services, as our team’s advisory, design, development and delivery time. It does not cover hardware, software licensing, data platform costs or other operational expenses. Any such costs required to put the solution into production remain the hospital’s responsibility.

• Up to $100,000 AUD of DB Results professional services (advisory, design, development and delivery), a genuine allocation of value rather than an in-kind contribution
• Discovery: working with the hospital’s clinical and operational leads to validate the problem, confirm the AI use case, and set a realistic path to production
• Design: solution and workflow design tailored to the hospital’s environment, including how the AI initiative fits existing clinical and operational systems
• Development: build of the AI-enabled solution, including the agentic components needed to act and orchestrate within the hospital’s workflow, not just generate output for someone to interpret
• Implementation to production: integration, testing, and go-live support to get the initiative genuinely live and in use, not stopped at a pilot or proof of concept
• A structured path from application to kickoff, including a dedicated briefing session, coaching through the application, and a defined award and start date

Applications are submitted through a short Microsoft Forms application through this link. There is no separate portal or email based process. The form will be live from the program launch date, 28 September 2026.

Yes. After you apply, one of our account directors will reach out to you. You are welcome to reach out directly with questions at any point before the application window closes, to Impact@dbresults.com.au or your account director.

Hospital Commitment and Investment (25%) looks at your readiness to back the project with executive sponsorship, the time of relevant clinical and operational staff, funding of additional professional services and any infrastructure, licensing or data access it needs. A clear appetite to co-invest and fund the initiative into production will be heavily weighted in the assessment.

Hospital Impact (20%) looks at the scale of the productivity or care benefit once the solution is in production, and how directly it addresses a problem that matters to your hospital.

AI Enablement (20%) looks at whether the proposed solution is genuinely agentic, actively supporting decisions and coordinating steps in a workflow, rather than simple automation or reporting.

Feasibility (15%) looks at whether the idea can realistically move through discovery, design, prototype, implementation and go-live within the program timeline, given the data and access available.

Strategic Alignment (10%) looks at how closely the proposal connects to your hospital’s own stated priorities and strategy, DB Results capabilities, Profit for Purpose principles and B Corp values.

Measurable Outcomes (10%) looks at whether success can be defined clearly upfront and tracked once the solution is live.

We will work with your team to confirm scope and stand up the project, with kickoff no later than 1 February 2027. From there, our team works alongside your clinical and operational leads to move from discovery through design, prototype, implementation and go-live. The expectation is a production-ready solution that can be used in the hospital environment, not a pilot that stops at proof of concept.

We recognise that hospitals will invest real time and effort into a strong application. We are happy to provide feedback on request, and welcome future conversations about how we might work together outside the grant program.

The successful hospital owns the outcomes of its own project. Ownership, intellectual property, and data handling terms are confirmed in a formal agreement with the selected hospital before the project kicks off.

Yes, we intend to publish a case study based on the successful production, developed and approved together with the hospital. However, nothing about your hospital, your data, or your outcomes is published without your agreement.

We are looking for solutions that go beyond simple automation or reporting. The strongest proposals involve agentic AI that can actively support decisions and coordinate steps in a workflow, not just generate content or predictions for a person to interpret and act on manually.

For anything not covered here, contact Impact@dbresults.com.au. You can also contact your DB Results account director if you have one. We are happy to talk through your specific situation and help you complete your application.