Start-Ups Meet Healthcare Providers
Calling on European start-ups to develop innovative healthcare solutions to selected, real-life challenges identified by healthcare providers. The programme matches the start-ups behind the innovative solutions with leading healthcare providers in their national healthcare systems. Together you will develop and fine-tune your solution to best meet the challenge, before you test it in the daily practices of the healthcare provider’s operations.
What you get
- Tailored Coaching. Receive personalised coaching to help you develop your entrepreneurial, business and pitching skills.
- Health Market. Learn about European healthcare markets and identify critical success factors for solutions to real-world challenges.
- Networking. Connect with leading European healthcare providers to develop and fine-tune your innovations.
- Visibility. Increase awareness of your start-up’s solution among renowned experts and investors across Europe.
Challenges
#1 - Developing online spaces for young patients and their families to interact - Children’s University Hospital, Latvia
Online health communities can offer an efficient way to collect information on unmet medical or social needs, help visualise shared problems in specific groups, facilitate patient engagement, and help form key opinions.
We’re looking for digital tools that can help provide a safe communication space for families, patients, and other stakeholders such as patient and family councils. These platforms should allow for secure interactions between relevant parties and provide data protection possibilities based on individual needs.
#2 - Integrating telematic infrastructures into standard of care - Diakonie Baden-Württemberg, Germany
We’re looking for innovative solutions that allow for communication and handling of data between companies and organisations, fulfilling all necessary medical and regulatory standards.
The ideal solution will be a health app that can be approved as a medical device in several (partial) products according to MDR and integrated into standard care via reimbursement. The solution must ensure secure communication and the protection of sensitive data at TI in the long term, and should consider medical standards and terminologies, like the HL7 FHIR standard, among others.
#3 - To be determined
The third challenge is going to be announced at a later time.
The Journey
The programme consists of four different modules with the objective to train and prepare start-ups to discuss collaboration opportunities with healthcare providers.
- Module 1: From October 11 to October 15, 2021
- 5 days “Entrepreneurship & Market Access Training”. Startups will receive tailored workshops on different tools and methods to successfully build their business.
- Module 2: From October 25 to October 29, 2021
- 5 days workshops by healthcare providers involved in the programme on how to collaborate with big players in the market.
- Module 3: From November 22 to November 26, 2021
- Startups will visit selected healthcare providers involved in the programme to discuss collaboration opportunities.
- Module 4: November 2021 Demo Day
- Startups pitch in front of healthcare providers representatives, investors, EIT Health partners, stakeholders.
Programme location: Hybrid, with online sessions and sessions in Heidelberg, Germany and other locations in Europe.
Eligibility criteria - Who can apply?
The programme targets start-ups with validated proof of concept, market validation and prototype that already entered the market/are about to enter the market. Selection of companies is based on the quality of the business idea, their fit for the selected challenge and the team’s motivation and level of commitment. Company must be based in any Horizon Europe country.
Application deadline: 3 September 2021, 23:59 CET
Got questions?
To learn more about the Start-Ups Meet Healthcare Providers programme, including timelines and the selection process, and to find out if they if it is right for you, register for one of our webinars below:
- Wednesday, 14 July 2021, 11:00am-12:00pm CET
- Wednesday, 1 September 2021, 11:00am-12:00pm CET
Informative webinar registration here!
You can also visit the official EIT Health webpage here for more information!
