HCL Tech to invest $750K in University of California's health lab project

Funding to be spread over three years, project team will work on innovations in the areas of rapid problem-solving, prototyping and testing of breakthrough healthcare technologies

HCL Technologies on Wednesday said it was committing $750,000 over the course of three years in a partnership with University of California, Berkeley to create a Health Technology Collaborative Laboratory (“CoLab”) housed in the Blum Center for Developing Economies on the university’s campus in Berkeley, California. 

The CoLab’s teams will work on health technology innovations to meet the challenges in a new age of healthcare. These activities will include rapid problem-solving, prototyping and testing of breakthrough healthcare technologies. 

This partnership aims to bring together stakeholders in healthcare (patients, clinicians, regulators and insurers), the business community and investors to create and