A total of 11 digital health startups from eight countries – from Germany to Ireland and the USA to Chile – will present at the digital kick-off event of Startup Creasphere their digital solutions on topics such as speech recognition in the laboratory, performance-based compensation models, disease management and clinical decision support.
In his keynote speech, Gottfried Ludewig, Head of the Department for Digitalization of the Healthcare Sector at the Federal Ministry of Health, emphasized the central role of startups in digitizing healthcare. Citing the Corona warning app as an example of how a European approach can be implemented even in a short time, he encouraged startups, small and medium-sized enterprises, and large corporations to continue generating and sharing data and thus actively contribute to the development of a European health data platform.
4.3 trillion euros for more digital clinics
Jörg Debatin, Chairman of the Health Innovation Hub, the newly established think tank of the Ministry of Health, then presented various initiatives led by his team. Their goal is to advance the digitalization of the German healthcare system and set new digital standards worldwide. In his view, the most important German flagship project is the fast-track approval process for digital health applications (DiGA, or "app on prescription"), which was successfully adopted this year and is unique worldwide. He also spoke about the digitalization initiative in German hospitals, for which the government will provide €4.3 trillion in the coming years.
Jochen Hurlebaus, Project Manager and Head of Digital Health Innovation at Roche Diagnostics, founding partner of the startup Creasphere, gave a brief review of the program since its launch in 2018.
Batch 5 startups
And these are the 11 startups that are in the current batch:
Inscripta (Helsinki, Finland): AI-driven speech recognition for the transcription of patient data such as symptoms and risk factors
Lyfegen (Basel, Switzerland): Digital platform that connects life science companies with providers and payers to enable performance-oriented contracts based on treatment success, costs and conditions
Redicare (Cork, Ireland): Digital prevention and disease management platform for chronic diseases such as hypertension, type 2 diabetes and obesity based on nutritional data
Redivus Health (Olathe, USA): Cloud-based Clinical Decision Support system that facilitates adherence to clinical guidelines and decision-making in time-critical, potentially life-threatening situations such as sepsis
HSBlox (Atlanta, USA): Blockchain and machine learning as the basis for the management and integration of health data and the controlled sharing of patient data in real time
Labtwin (Berlin, Germany): Voice-controlled digital assistant that enables scientists to capture and document data, manage experiments, and create notes and order lists from anywhere in their lab
Unit (Santiago de Chile, Chile): AI-driven solution that processes complex structured and unstructured medical data, enabling predictive, automated monitoring
Garamantis (Berlin, Germany): develops interactive installations at the interface between humans and technology, which are intended to make access to technology significantly more intuitive
MDimune Inc (Seoul, South Korea): uses a patented process to pursue the goal of using human cell fragments or nanovesicles as carriers of therapeutic agents for the treatment of a range of diseases
Unima (Zapopan, Mexico): develops a cost-effective diagnostic technology to quickly diagnose diseases – where the patients are, not the laboratories
Valitacell (Dublin, Ireland): develops analytical solutions for the biopharmaceutical industry
The results of the collaboration between the startups and the pilot owners from industry will be presented on Expo Day on February 24, 2021.
