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Pioneers in the healthcare sector: Health Hero revolutionises the diagnostics and management sector

In a world where chronic diseases such as long COVID, diabetes and multiple sclerosis continue to pose a major challenge, the innovative start-up HealthHero is on the rise. Their customised solutions in the diagnosis and management of such diseases promise to usher in a new era in healthcare. Below, Holger Semsch, Managing Director of HealthHero, shares insights into the startup's origins, its mission, current successes and future ambitions.

Revolutionizing Patient Safety: QUMEA's Innovative Approach to Healthcare Monitoring

In an era marked by the urgency of contactless care, QUMEA emerges as a beacon of innovation in patient safety. Founded during the tumultuous early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, QUMEA offers an intelligent early warning system designed to monitor patient mobility and prevent falls in a non-intrusive, anonymous manner. In this interview, we delve into the genesis of QUMEA, its value proposition to healthcare providers, and its vision for the future of healthcare monitoring.

Web-based match-making platform for hospital discharge and transfer management

Nubedian presents a pioneering solution for hospital discharge and transfer management. Our web-based matching platform makes it possible to find suitable service providers for patients at the touch of a button, based on their profile. Through automatic data transfers between hospital information systems and service provider systems via interfaces and innovative encryption methods, we guarantee data exchange in compliance with data protection regulations and across all sectors.

Revolutionary outage management in the healthcare sector: The digital solution from CrewLinQ

CrewLinQ presents an innovative 360-degree solution for outage management in the healthcare sector. With our digital platform, downtime can be managed efficiently and quickly internally or even across organisations, whether through pool management or leasing. The CrewLinQ app makes it possible to fill outages at lightning speed, which not only saves time and money, but also protects against the threat of bed closures and makes employees happier by making disruptive calls in their free time a thing of the past.

Pioneers in infection prevention: Puray revolutionises the healthcare sector with UV-disinfected catheters

Puray introduces a breakthrough medical catheter that is continuously disinfected with UV radiation to fight nosocomial infections in healthcare settings. This innovative technology utilises UV light with a wavelength of 405 nm to effectively eliminate bacteria and viruses while leaving human cells undamaged. This innovative solution reduces the risk of device-borne infections while minimising the use of antibiotics.

Revolutionary solution for continuous monitoring in normal hospital wards

The development of an easy-to-use and highly scalable solution for continuous monitoring in normal hospital wards is at the centre of our mission, says Max Blendinger from UniWearables. Our clinical wearable, about the size of a matchbox, records key vital signs such as heart rate, respiratory rate, oxygen saturation, temperature, activity level and patient position regularly and non-invasively by attaching it to the body via a patch. This innovative solution is based on a platform concept that enables easy customisation for different applications, providing a comprehensive insight into the patient's state of health.

Digital twin to simulate the concentration of medication in the blood

The advancement of personalisation in medical treatment is the focus of ExactCure, a company that has developed a medical software device to promote the correct intake of medication.

Healthcare and medical device in one app by Oska Health

Oska Health: The fusion of health counselling and medical device in the form of an app marks an innovative approach to improving the care of kidney patients.

Joint work on sensitive patient data by RosemanLabs

The increasing importance of data in the healthcare industry requires innovative solutions for collaboration on sensitive patient data.

panthrs Smart Shirt enables digital oncological training therapy

Exercise has been proven to be extremely effective in the fight against numerous widespread and severe diseases like cancer. This power must be harnessed.

A smart patch for heart failure patients

The medical innovation of tomorrow is in the hands of companies like Pheal, which is taking a decisive step towards patient-centred care with a smart patch for heart failure patients.

Revolutionary Solutions for Digital Nutrition Guidance

HealthMe, which has been described as "Google Maps for healthy eating", shows us in an interview how their app not only offers allergy sufferers, people with food intolerances or special diets, but also millions of people with common illnesses a simple and convenient way to eat healthily and thus improve their quality of life.

Beyond Snores: The Untold Risks of Unchecked Sleep Apnea

Heike Butz shares the personal motivation behind founding Diametos, emphasizing the need for a reliable solution for assessing the potential dangers of snoring. As someone who experienced uncertainty surrounding her own snoring, Heike's journey, along with co-founder Dr. Christoph Janott, led to the creation of Snorefox, offering a transformative approach to identifying sleep apnea risks.

Cogthera in conversation - Digital innovation for cognitive health

In an exclusive interview with Hannes Funk, CEO of Cogthera, we delve into the world of digital innovations for cognitive health. Hannes explains how their Cogthera app helps people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and mild dementia to boost their memory. The app focuses in particular on the complex process of thought transmission from sensory reception to long-term memory, controlled almost exclusively by speech and customised to the user's needs.

Revolutionary wearable for bladder monitoring

In an exclusive interview with Jannick Lockl, CEO of inContAlert, we gain an insight into the innovative world of their wearable for measuring bladder filling levels in incontinence patients. Jannick explains how the system works: A sensor, attached to the belt above the pubic bone, continuously collects data about the bladder. Deep learning algorithms analyse this data and the determined bladder filling level is displayed on an app, while the app issues warnings if the filling level is too high.

AI-based solution to support complex diagnostic decision-making process

Medicalvalues is an innovative, fast-growing medical software company based in Karlsruhe. With the vision to connect the dots in clinical pathways and enable improved patient outcomes. In our exclusive interview 5-HT X-Linker Alumni Jan Kirchhoff, CEO and co-founder of medicalvalues talks about their AI-based solution and what motivated him to start medicalvalues. 

Innovation without compromise: REVIVO BioSystems' path to ethical and efficient in-vitro testing

At the forefront of modern research lies the vision of REVIVO BioSystems, a pioneer in the field of 4D human tissue models and fully automated Organ-on-a-Chip platforms.

Revolutionizing Data Sharing in Manufacturing

In an era where data is the cornerstone of efficiency, one company is spearheading a digital revolution in the manufacturing sector, particularly in chemicals and pharmaceuticals. We sat down with John Ward, the visionary behind ServBlock, to delve into the motivation behind this innovative venture and understand how their data-sharing platform is transforming the landscape of operational efficiency.

Pioneering Healthcare Solutions: Unveiling Medipee's Contactless Diagnostics

Medipee, a healthcare innovator, provides an integrated solution for contactless urine analysis at home. In this exclusive interview, we talk with Noel Weinberg about Medipee.

Revolutionizing Healthcare: A Glimpse into Subsequent's AI-powered Motion Analysis

In the realm of health innovation, Subsequent is making waves with its non-invasive, AI-driven solutions for detailed human skeletal movement data collection. We sat down with CEO Dr. Manuel Stein to unravel the intricacies of Subsequent's groundbreaking technology that utilizes simple smartphone recordings to provide real-time analysis, benefiting patients in various areas such as neurological rehabilitation and home fitness.

Theblood on gender diversity, “women's issues” & unbalanced capital distribution

Do women start up differently than men? One thing is certain - in any case, they start up less than their male colleagues and encounter more headwind. This fact is also confirmed by Isabelle Guenou and Miriam Santer, the founders of theblood.

Barbara is breaking boundaries: a journey of female entrepreneurship

"Could you refill the coffee machine? It's empty." A phrase female founder and CEO Barbara Stegmann has had to hear only minutes before she was on stage to present her company living brain. 

The future of technical documentation automation in the healthcare sector

At a time when the healthcare industry is increasingly shaped by digital innovations, meddevo is at the forefront. Its approach to automating technical documentation and regulatory affairs promises not only a more efficient way of working, but also a significant reduction in effort and bottlenecks. With meddevo, the creation and maintenance of documentation is taken to a whole new level by avoiding redundant processes and editing content at the content level. In this interview with Michael Kania, we take a look at the driving motivation behind the founding of meddevo, how they convince customers from the pharmaceutical industry and healthcare sector and where they see themselves in three years. In addition, you will learn how the collaboration with 5-HT supports meddevo's vision and what role Germany plays in this. Dive with us into the future of technical documentation in the healthcare sector.

Revolutionierung der adhärenten Zellkultivierung in der chemischen Industrie

In einer Zeit, in der innovative Lösungen in der chemischen Industrie mehr denn je gefragt sind, präsentiert sich CellScrew als Wegbereiter einer bahnbrechenden Entwicklung in der Zellkultivierung. Diese neuartige Zellkulturplattform ermöglicht die großflächige Kultivierung von adhärenten Zellen auf effiziente Weise. Ein archimedischer Schraubenmechanismus transportiert Medien und Gas effizient durch Rotation, schafft ein optimales Umfeld und vergrößert die Wachstumsfläche um etwa den Faktor 12, ohne die Abmessungen herkömmlicher Rollflaschen zu verändern.