How collaboration could be key to beating the pandemic – Rapid Response Project CoViproteHCT featured in the New Scientist Magazine
The Rapid Response Project CoViproteHCT is featured in the New Scientist Magazine as part of the Infectious disease campaign by GlobalCauseUK. As a response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, in June 2020 EIT Health awarded close to €7 million in funding to 15 projects to help combat the COVID-19 pandemic as part of its Rapid Response […]
Only six months after its foundation: Nia Health launches cooperation with statutory health insurance
The medical product, the neurodermatitis App Nia (risk class I), is from now on available to DAK customers free of charge in the fully comprehensive premium version. The Berlin-based medical device manufacturer Nia Health is starting a cooperation with DAK-Gesundheit on July 1, 2020. Neurodermatitis patients can use the Nia-App to document their health history, […]
EIT Health awards seven winners of the Headstart Award 2020 and separately Covid solutions
In the framework of an online pitch round in mid-June 2020, 15 young companies from Germany, Austria and Switzerland took part in the annual competition. Seven winners are looking forward to subsidies of up to 50,000 euros. Read the Article here (German only)
Neurodermatitis App Nia wins European Innovation Award
The Berlin-based medical device manufacturer Nia Health wins the EIT Health Headstart Award worth €50,000. The prize is awarded by the EU institution EIT Health to particularly innovative early stage start-ups. In addition to the prize money, the EIT Health Headstart programme gives young companies particularly valuable access to a large European network of industrial […]
“The State is a poor risk capital provider” – Alexander von Gabain in conversation with the Wiener Zeitung
EIT Health takes on the role of a facilitator with its seven Innovation Hubs spread across Europe and uses the money as a catalyst with the aim to bring together the necessary players with different skills across borders to bring new innovative products and services to customers and patients. Read the whole interview here (in […]
EIT Health publishes current report on ‘Value-Based Health Care’ for Europe
As an important promoter of innovations in the health care sector for the whole of Europe, EIT Health presents its current report on the situation and implementation of so-called Value-Based Health Care (VBHC) on 26 may 2020. The aim of the publication “Implementing Value-Based Health Care: Handbook for Pioneers” is to define a clearly structured […]
COVID-19 pandemic: What lessons are we learning? – An interview with EIT Health Supervisory Board Chairman Alexander von Gabain
For Alexander von Gabain, the EIT Health Supervisory Board Chairman, molecular biologist and multiple company founder, the pandemic reveals the shortcomings and limits of an outdated understanding of Innovation. Looking at the coronavirus from the perspective of a molecular biologist – is this virus a particularly strong and therefore viable one? Scientifically speaking, viruses can […]
The EU-Backed Community of Health Innovators Transforming Health | Katharina Ladewig, EIT Health
Financially backed by the EU, EIT Health is a pan-European network of health innovators and 150+ corporate and academic partners across the continent who pool their assets to support widespread health innovation across Europe. We caught up with Katharina Ladewig, Managing Director for EIT Health Germany, about the group’s priorities, how they enable early and […]
RealWorld4Clinic – Real-life data for clinical research & care
RealWorld4Clinic is a new European initiative bringing real-world data to pivotal clinical research and outpatient cardiology care. Today episodic and reactive data acquisition in artificial environments is the standard in clinical research and guideline-oriented heart failure (HF) management. This practice limits the predictive power of clinical trials and opportunities for preventive care and leads to […]
Open your eyes for the control centre
In the control centre of the Kleve district 25 dispatchers work in shifts. Dispatchers are the people at the end of an emergency call. Part of their job is to make vital decisions in the shortest possible time. Around 450 telephone calls are received daily at the district control centre – around 150 of these […]
