Techcare e-Health Program - Reimagine the Future

Reimagining the future of healthcare, improving people’s lives

techcare is an open innovation program designed to connect the most disruptive startups in healthcare with Novartis professionals and experts.

The best solutions will have the chance to run a pilot with Novartis, reimagining and changing the future in the healthcare ecosystem.

2nd Edition in Progress

What we are looking for

Product in working prototype or MVP

Product testing phase

Established founding teams

techcare bootcamp concentrated months worth of work in one amazing week where we were welcomed by Novartis with open arms and had a unique opportunity to learn from such an experienced organization. For TonicApp this translated into a partnership that we hope will last for many years.

Daniela Seixas

CEO, TonicApp

Do you have a solution for any of these challenges?

Value & Outcomes

Assist payers, providers and healthcare professionals to make the best decisions, through solutions that demonstrate clinical and economic outcomes for different therapeutic areas.

Early diagnosis and patient referral

Promote early diagnosis: identify patients where they are, diagnose them earlier and classify diseases.
Create and manage referral networks
Promote physician disease awareness, medical education and scientific updates in engaging new ways (e.g immersive training, gamification, VR)

Patient activation and disease management

Improve disease awareness, for several pathologies, as well as patient education and empowerment, to aid disease self-management.
Support patients in managing their diseases and promoting their general well-being (including emotional & psychological)
Support patient clinical management, allowing for integrated care among specialities
Support healthcare professionals in making the best therapeutic decisions, earlier.

Value & Outcomes

Assist payers, providers and healthcare professionals to make the best decisions, through solutions that demonstrate clinical and economic outcomes for different therapeutic areas.

Early diagnosis and patient referral

Promote early diagnosis: identify patients where they are, diagnose them earlier and classify diseases.
Create and manage referral networks
Promote physician disease awareness, medical education and scientific updates in engaging new ways (e.g immersive training, gamification, VR)

Patient activation and disease management

Improve disease awareness, for several pathologies, as well as patient education and empowerment, to aid disease self-management.
Support patients in managing their diseases and promoting their general well-being (including emotional & psychological)
Support patient clinical management, allowing for integrated care among specialities
Support healthcare professionals in making the best therapeutic decisions, earlier.

In the following therapeutic areas:

Age related macular degeneration

Ankylosing Spondylitis

Asthma

Heart Failure

Multiple Sclerosis,
Migraine

Oncology*

*Breast Cancer, Melanoma, Myelofibrosis, Polycythemia vera, Chronic Myeloid Leukemia, Acute Myeloid Leukemia, Chronic Iron Overload, Immune Thrombocytopenia

Psoriatic Arthritis

Psoriasis

Through the following solutions:

Cloud health and mHealth
Healthcare Gamification
AI (Artificial Intelligence) & Machine learning
IoT – Devices and Wearables
Big data & Analytics
AR (Augmented Reality) & VR (Virtual Reality)
Collaborative Networks

Program Timeline

Applications phase

15^th October – 5^th December

Pitch Day

17^th December

Bootcamp

20^th – 24^th January

Pilot Development

February – April

2020

Jam Session

21^st January 2021

During this journey it became clear that Techcare is an initiative that proves Novartis real interest in working with innovative products and not just a way to foster a culture of innovation. Both on operational and scientific levels, Novartis support has been of the highest quality and value for us.

Eduardo Rodrigues

CEO, Uphill

Partners

Novartis

Novartis is reimagining medicine to improve and extend people’s lives. As a leading global medicines company, we use innovative science and digital technologies to create transformative treatments in areas of great medical need. In our quest to find new medicines, we consistently rank among the world’s top companies investing in research and development. Novartis products reach more than 750 million people globally and we are finding innovative ways to expand access to our latest treatments. About 105 thousand people of more than 140 nationalities work at Novartis around the world. Find out more at www.novartis.pt

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Beta-i

Beta-i is a “one-stop-shop” for innovation and entrepreneurship. We help new and established businesses grow by offering 360º innovation services, running education & open innovation programs, launching startup accelerators, organizing events, promoting investment and hosting great workspaces at our hub.

Since 2010 we’ve run over over 30 open innovation programs across multiple sectors and industries, have developed hundreds of innovation consultancy projects with top tier clients, have received +5000 startup applications to our open innovation programs, accelerated over 850 startups, that have raised +60M, and have hosted over 14.000 people at our events.

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