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Description: Hexcite (Excited for Healthcare) is an early-stage medical software accelerator program for entrepreneurs hosted by the Johns Hopkins Medicine Technology Innovation Center in collaboration with Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures Care providers with an idea who are eager to drive change within their practice are matched with business, design, and technical team members to work together in creating a software solution that will improve patient care. Weekly, expert-led virtual sessions help teams navigate the first steps of business and technical design using the Lean Start-up methodology which focuses on growing a business with maximum acceleration. Teams must go through customer discovery (interviewing to test assumptions), a design thinking process to prioritize technology requirements, and built a pitch that includes market research and storytelling components. During the course, Hexcite teams are prepared to build their technology with professional software development teams like the Technology Innovation Center, conduct an internal pilot at Johns Hopkins, and launch a Baltimore start-up. They are introduced to guest speakers and reviewers from the local healthcare technology entrepreneurial community and experts in building digital health tools from Johns Hopkins. Goals: 1. Work with a clinical team to conduct interviews with users and build a design centered proposal to solve a healthcare problem. 2. Understand how the technology could be constructed and integrated into a healthcare setting.