Digitalswitzerland in collaboration with Swiss Healthcare Startups have launched the Digital Health Academy to strengthen Switzerland’s digital health ecosystem by bringing together thought leaders and startups solving some of the existing healthcare challenges. Four scaleup startups will benefit from the new support offer during six months.
While Switzerland’s healthcare system offers one of the best qualities of care in the world, it still faces multiple challenges linked to its high costs and limited resources. The advancement in technologies and digitalization offer new opportunities to address existing challenges to foster a sustainable and efficient healthcare system to provide high quality care to all patients while optimizing data management and health navigation.
To accelerate this change and identify potentially game changing solutions, digitalswitzerland together with Swiss Healthcare Startups launched the Digital Health Academy this year in May during the Startup Days in Bern. The program offers selected startups six months of mentorship, workshops, access to the ventureLab Scaleup bootcamp and events such as Digital Health Day in Zurich (27 September 2023) and AI for Health in Geneva (7 December 2023). The programme will close with the publication of a visual state of innovation whitepaper.
The first cohort of the Digital Health Academy comprises four scaleups, selected based on their innovative and ambitious solutions, which empower the Swiss population to own and understand their healthcare data.
The companies are:
Decentriq is a Saas platform revolutionising data collaboration with its state-of-the-art data clean rooms. Leveraging Confidential Computing, an advanced encryption technology, Decentriq enables secure and privacy-centric data analysis without exposing the actual data. Tailored for healthcare, Decentriq makes it easy to collaborate across boundaries and organisations.
heyPatient is an open, patient-centred platform with an integrated app (digital health companion). The SaaS solution aims to set new standards in healthcare. Safety measures include SwissID patient identification, Swiss data storage, encrypted data transmission via dedicated FHIR Agents.
Soignez-moi enables quality medical care at an affordable price from anywhere. By offering remote consultations (from home or at work) and without waiting, Soignez-moi responds to the current needs of patients to access high-quality medical care without having to take time off, travel or wait. Days of issues that can be relieved with a simple phone call.
Tom Medications is unlocking insights into patient behaviour: a new dimension in the depth of real-world data. The TOM-App accelerates the access to a highly engaged and anonymous community of chronic patients to an unprecedented degree and provides accurate data on patient behaviour in storyboards for brands or disease pathways.
(Press release/RAN)
Image Left: Matthias Spühler (CEO, heyPatient), Maria Fernanda Scoz Luz (Healthcare and Life sciences Business Developer, Decentriq), Phil Norris (Lead Scaleup Enablement, digitalswitzerland).
Image right: Thomas Campion, Communication & Ecosystem Lead at Swiss Healthcare Startups with Phil Norris
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