Digital Health in Nijmegen: Stronger together

In the Nijmegen region, the Digital Health focus is actively working on connecting care institutions and knowledge institutes with companies that develop digital solutions. During the last Health Valley event, Tom van de Belt emphasized the importance of joining forces:

“Because of corona, the need for digital healthcare is greater than ever, especially in our city with its large healthcare sector. Yet all too often, digital innovations remain a pilot, because the functionality does not exactly match the wishes of end users such as a doctor, nurse or patient. This is a missed opportunity, which is why we focus on connecting end users with companies earlier and better. An important first step is to systematically identify needs”.

Next, companies are challenged. This is done within the framework of the network program Briskr Validate! Martijn Kriens, project leader of Briskr Validate:

“Challenging companies to come up with a certain solution can not only lead to an innovation faster but also has the potential to be of better quality. This is certainly true in the field of digital health”.

The expectations are therefore high. Van de Belt and Kriens look further. According to them, the Nijmegen region has all the ingredients needed to create a vibrant Digital Health region. In addition to healthcare institutions and companies, they are also thinking of other partners such as the municipality of Nijmegen and the payers of healthcare. That is why they are committed to the creation of a genuine Digital Health Hub, in which co-creation, validation and bringing digital health solutions to the market are central. The plans for this are currently being worked out. If interested, please contact both gentlemen, tom.vandebelt@radboudumc.nl en martijn.kriens@radboudumc.nl

Recording Brilliant Business Models in Healthcare

This is the recording of the workshop ‘Brilliant Business Models in Healthcare’. Jeroen Kemperman, sr. Manager Strategy & Business Development at Achmea/Zilveren Kruis, is discussing the sorts of brilliant business models which are needed to improve healthcare and realize the quadruple aim: better health, nicer treatment, happier healthcare workers and reduced cost. During the workshop the focus lays on renumeration in Health care systems in general and specifically on the Dutch Healthcare system. It is giving an interesting insight in the way the Healthcare system is organized to provide universal coverage for all, and what you should know if you want to get your innovation implemented and funded within The Netherlands and abroad.

Participant Ivonne Verhagen, HCM Medical about her experiences:

‘Briskr, thanks for the clear and educational workshop! With very useful personal tips and advice to top it off!’

Recording from SMB meeting on High Tech in healthcare (March 4, 2021)

The topic of this SMB meeting was cooperation with OnePlanet. OnePlanet is a new initiative by IMEC together with Wageningen University, Radboudumc and Radboud University. Their focus is on technology innovations in Food, Health and our environment. The Oneplanet Program can play a major role in our region in the next decade in terms of the invention of new technologies, the validation of those and in sucessfully bringing these to the market. Chris gave an overview of some of the cool projects they are working on and how he looks towards future collaboration on creating impact. His presentation was followed by two pitches of startup companies that already collaborate with OnePlanet: Ivido, Hans Niendieker and ConnectedCare, Martijn Vastenburg. Final speaker was Harry van Goor, Prof. dr. at Radboudumc, who talked about the importance of collaboration in innovation from his perspective as a medical doctor and the need of monitoring real patients in studies like the Virtual Patient Monitoring Platform.

You can watch the recording below:

Kick-off to Unique Semiconductor Packaging Education Program

The new Semiconductor Packaging education program that was developed by Hogeschool Arnhem en Nijmegen (HAN) and Chip Integration Technology Center (CITC) has launched. The education program closes the gap between study and work. The launch of the course is a big step forward for CITC.

Heterogeneous integration and advanced packaging—stacking and packaging of chips—is essential for connecting chips and protecting them. CITC develops new technology to make the chip shell smaller, better and cheaper. The innovation center thus plays an important role in smartphones, cars and operating room of the future, for example.

The Essential Pitch, podcast by David Beckett

We organized the Briskr workshop ‘Pitching’ by David Beckett. Now he has made a podcast about the Essential Pitch.

This is the show which helps you make great pitches and presentations, so you can raise money, win business, and grow your confidence – and you’ll learn from people who are doing it at the highest level. I’m David Beckett, Pitch Coach, TEDx speech coach and founder of the Best3Minutes pitch methodology. I’ve coached over 1400 Startups to win over €340Million in investment. I’ve also trained more than 20,000 professionals at companies such as Booking.com, Tommy Hilfiger, PwC, Shell and Netflix. For more help with creating your winning pitch, go to Best3minutes.com.

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Recording Science Meets Business: Cooperation in Digital Health

The recording of the Science Meets Business: Cooperation in Digital Health is available. We hope we can inspire you with the R4heal project. R4Heal is a new initiative from Radboudumc and private partners to create an “interactive personalized healing environment” where, with the help of advanced technologies, patients recover better and faster after major surgery. Several factors influence the patient’s healing during a recovery process. That is why personalized healing is so important. This is summarized with the 4 r’s: Relief, Rest, Relax and Recover.
This initiative combines smart sensoring, an interactive videowall and virtual reality games reducing pain and stress and improving sleep and mobility.

You can watch the recording bij clicking on this video:

Recording workshop Brilliant Failures

In the online workshop “Brilliant failures” we worked on make your innovation successful. Normally we don’t talk about innovation failures with entrepreneurs. They are rarely shared even though they are often the most valuable source for learning how to do it better tomorrow. Today we practice looking at failures to learn from them. Wil Jansen, Marlies Rikken and Koen de Jong of Innovalor explain which important failure factors play a role in the failure of your innovation. Based on previous failures, we know exactly what the pitfalls are. They listed five important failure factors that can ruin the flying start of your innovation and company. These five factors can be found in the recording of the webinar. With the help of these five factors a model has been developed to test your innovation.

Good luck with your innovation!

Partnership ATRO Medical and ReumaNederland

Orthopedic startup ATRO Medical is entering into a partnership with ReumaNederland for the further development of their synthetic meniscus. The Nijmegen startup is working on a meniscus prosthesis for people with knee osteoarthritis. As an official partner, ReumaNederland supports this development with its expertise in the field of osteoarthritis. ATRO Medical is a participation of Oost NL.

AI for life podcast 5: when is virtual realistic enough?

Subject of this fifth episode: the use of AI in “virtual agents” to train people, for example to prepare them for certain work situations. Together with Tibor Bosse (Radboud University), Romy Blankendaal (TNO) and Eric Jutten (The Simulation Crew) we discuss questions such as: what is a virtual agent, how smart does the virtual agent actually have to be to be effective, and is enough to be only virtual or do we also need other (human) feedback to be convincing. Questions that are the subject of research at Radboud University and Radboudumc. For example, it has been investigated whether NS employees can be trained with the help of these agents and VR glasses, among other things aimed at good interaction with the customer. Have fun listening!

(podcast is in Dutch)