Digital Health Prize honors groundbreaking digital technologies
21.02.2018 10:28
82 project teams and companies from all over Germany applied for the first Digital Health Prize. The jury has filtered out seven shortlisted projects for the 50,000 euro prize, which will be awarded by Novartis Pharma and Sandoz Germany/Hexal in mid-March. At the end there are three winners on the podium whose digital solutions are intended to help sick people have a better quality of life and contribute to better care.
The spectrum of applicants ranged from small research institutions and start-up companies to large university hospitals, health insurance companies, associations and hospitals as well as universities and industrial groups, as the initiators of the prize state. A four-person jury examined all 82 submissions. Seven made it to the final and can now look forward to the award ceremony on March 15, 2018 in Berlin.
The four-member jury will now select the three winners from the following seven projects:
- App for Doc, SlashCube UG (limited liability) & Co. KG
The aim is to create better care through the integration and networking of various participants in the healthcare system - for example by allowing patients to manage their medication plan digitally or to send appointment and prescription requests to practices via app.
- Cynteract Glove for the Virtual, Cynteract GmbH, Aachen
A virtual reality glove is intended to optimize the often monotonous and costly rehabilitation of hand injuries and motivate patients to train the injured hand in virtual games.
- GET.ON Institute GmbH, Hamburg
Online health training is intended to help support patients with psychological stress, promote their mental health and increase their quality of life. The training includes practical exercises, texts, images and videos.
- Medical Allround Care Service Solutions (MACSS), Charité, Berlin
A prototype of a patient-centered smart health service platform is to be developed, which, among other things, ensures that chronically ill people in particular can communicate quickly and directly with their doctor and reach their care center. The platform is intended to sustainably improve doctor-patient and doctor-doctor communication.
- Ovule ring, ViVoSensMedical GmbH, Leipzig
This application is intended to make it possible for the first time to map the entire female cycle and, if desired, to share this data with the gynecologist, to recognize individual cycle patterns and thus precisely determine ovulation and fertile days, which increases the chance of becoming pregnant.
- Radius, Circumradius GmbH, Berlin
This therapy program is specifically designed for post-hospital addiction treatment and gives the patient and therapist the opportunity to stay connected between sessions, manage treatment plans and work on treatment goals.
- TelePark, Technical University Dresden
To ensure that patients with advanced Parkinson's maintain their autonomy and quality of life even away from the clinic, the telemedicine-based care and doctor-patient interaction concept TelePark aims to connect patients with Parkinson's specialists.
“Novartis would like to use the Digital Health Prize to help shape the digital future of healthcare. We are convinced that digital solutions can be an optimal complement to innovative medicines in order to be able to offer therapies to patients in a more targeted, user-friendly and effective manner. As part of this competition, we had the opportunity to get to know many innovative, well-thought-out and inspiring projects and I am pleased that we can make a contribution to the further development of the best three ideas,” explains Novartis Germany boss Dr. Sidonie Golombowski-Daffner.
The prize money totaling EUR 50,000 will be distributed to first place with EUR 25,000, EUR 15,000 will go to the second-placed project and EUR 10,000 will go to the third winner. The winners will be announced on March 15th at an evening event hosted by Dunja Hayali. Sascha Lobo is on board as a keynote speaker.