Health

Former UK Under-Secretary of State at the Department of Health Lord Darzi has repeatedly stressed innovation as the key to efficiency savings, saying:

“The challenges we face in the future are very different to those of the past. We need to focus on implementing new ideas which create value, be they technological products, services or processes.”

Current Competitions:

- Health Pitch Battlefield

The Health Pitch Battlefield is asking innovators to contribute with their ideas to the following: “Your solution should help to reduce avoidable attendance at hospitals / surgeries while maintaining or increasing the quality of delivered care.” Solutions may arise from the fields of Health IT, Personalised Healthcare, (Home) Diagnostics, Telemedicine, Mobile Healthcare, Prevention, and many more.

The 5 best concepts, selected by our jury panel, will be allowed to pitch at PitchLive and have a stand in order to present and network there. Final judges will select the winner.

The Health Pitch Battlefield is currently not open for submissions!

- Medical Technology Challenge

We're currently developing ideas for a health challenge on medical and health technologies in order to boost technology commercialisation in the medical technology community and strengthen the ties between medical between innovators (researchers, universities, startup companies) and the industrial/public sector (governments, large corporations).

What are examples of the problems we aim to solve with a competition?

Rising healthcare costs are a widespread phenomenon, affecting employers and users in the US, the UK and beyond.

The call for cost-saving innovations is becoming increasingly clear, and several good examples have already emerged. Effective medicines that reduce the risk of serious illness, complications or emergency situations have the potential to save enormous amounts of money, particularly when combined with systems that ensure patients adhere to recommended usage guidelines. Studies have proven the cost-effective nature of new diabetes, Alzheimer’s and heart failure medicines. Alternative service methods such as eHealth and telemedicine can also save on costs.

Please contact us at health@omnicompete.com if you are interested in contributing to the dialogue, sponsoring a competition, or working on competitions in this sector.

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