What is hospital venturing and why could it be the next big thing in Europe?

It’s becoming more and more familiar in the United States and it could be the next big thing in Europe too: hospitals having their own venture fund to invest in digital health innovations. In this blog post, I explore the world of hospital venturing: This article is part of a dashplus-series on healthcare corporate venturing. … Read more

Can we finally use technology to promote the well-being of people living with dementia?

What is dementia? Dementia is an umbrella term that covers a range of medical conditions that cause cognitive deterioration beyond that of normal ageing. This deterioration is severe enough to cause those who suffer from it, to require assistance for basic daily functions. Dementia is all too often linked to memory loss and grief about … Read more

Digital health law in Germany opens up a market of 73m users for digital therapeutics companies

digital health law opens up market of 73m users in Germany

Digital health reimbursement starts as of 2020 Hurray, the largest European market is finally opening up for digital health entrepreneurs! Starting from 2020, over 73 million Germans in the public health system can now get digital health apps prescribed and refunded. The ‘digital health law’ making this huge step into modernity possible for German patients … Read more

The rise of FemTech in Europe: stronger and here to stay

Their customer base is more than half of the world population. They develop health solutions for the ones being most affected by ageing and health issues. And they are aware of the fact that working females spend 29 per cent more per capita on healthcare compared to males in the same age group. I’m talking about … Read more

The Belgian digital health ecosystem in 2017

the Belgian digital health ecosystem in 2017

Healthtech is a broad sector note: this article was first published in january 2018. This is an updated version of september 2019 (1).  Worldwide, HealthTech or digital health is one of the top sectors for startups and scaleups. In general, we speak of HealthTech referring to companies that use software or data to improve efficiency and … Read more

Corporate companies love to cooperate with healthcare startups

This is the first of a dashplus-series of blogs on healthcare corporate innovation and hospital venturing. Feel free to check them all out or join our newsletter community to stay connected (it’s free!). Corporate companies love to cooperate with startups, definitely in healthcare. It helps them to steer their business into new directions and mitigate slow development: it’s a way … Read more

CVC in healthcare: 10 leading corporate venturing funds

10 international corporate venturing funds

This blog is part of a blog series on corporate venturing in healthcare (or CVC in healthcare). Feel free to check them all out here. If you want to collaborate on corporate innovation in healthcare, you can mail me here: sofie@dashplus.be Corporate innovation in healthcare Corporate innovation in healthcare keeps on growing this year. Corporate … Read more

one-day business workshop with Sofie

win 1-2 months in one day

If you’re looking for fast inspiration and feedback on your healthcare innovations project, the one-day business workshop with dashplus is perfect for your company. During one day I will help your team to analyse new business opportunities. You receive external feedback and I give you suggestions on your strategy up till now. Next, we dive … Read more

Value based healthcare is more than a buzzword

what is value based healthcare?

Have you ever heard of value based healthcare? For some in health, it’s nothing more than a buzzword, others are changing a complete health system to work value based. I think value based healthcare offers anyone in the health business ecosystem interesting possibilities to innovate: hospitals, health insurances, technology and pharma companies, governments, and universities … Read more