The 2021 healthcare challenges came from healthcare providers in Germany and Latvia. Read through the 2021 challenges below:

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.

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.

Failure to adhere to prescribed medication regimens is one of the principal reasons patients don’t achieve the expected outcomes from their treatment.

We are looking for an innovative tool, technology solution (e.g. pillboxes, inhalers, injection pens, tracking devices) or applications for easy identifying, monitoring and optimizing patients’ adherence and feedback to the physician. This tool should be able to identify non- adherent patients, support their adherence, have the possibility to report a suspected adverse reaction, and provide timely online feedback/report to their physician, nurse and/or pharmacist.

Applicants should have a solution with a proof of concept, market validation and prototype that matches one of the challenges from the healthcare providers above.

The programme is free to apply, but your company must be based in one of the Horizon Europe countries.

To learn more about the programme and find out if it is right for you, you can watch one of our recorded Start-ups Meet Healthcare Provider webinars from 2021’s edition:

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Applications to the 2022 edition will be opening soon, stay tuned for more information.