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

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

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

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europe
Sofie Staelraeve

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

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the Belgian digital health ecosystem in 2017
#scaleups
Sofie Staelraeve

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

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#cooperation
Sofie Staelraeve

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

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10 international corporate venturing funds
corporate venturing
Sofie Staelraeve

CVC in healthcare: 10 leading 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

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what is value based healthcare?
hospitals
Sofie Staelraeve

Value based healthcare is more than a buzzword

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

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BPIFrance
Sofie Staelraeve

Euroquity: open investment platform with a keen interest in healthcare

Are you a healthcare company looking for investors and/or partners? Then it’s definitely worth registering at the Euroquity platform. This neutral and free platform was founded over 10 years ago now, in 2008, by French top health and life sciences venture capitalist BPI France.    The Euroquity platform is open to all entrepreneurs and investors,

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#digitalhealth
Sofie Staelraeve

AXA first to launch teleconsultation to over 50k Belgians

Insurance company AXA announced to start with teleconsultations in the Belgian market as from 1 July 2019. More than 50 000 Belgians, all customers of AXA’s health insurance, will get free access to the service. AXA and its service partner company AXA Partners already have over 5 years experience with teleconsultations in France. Just a

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#businessmodel
Sofie Staelraeve

The invasion of the health coaches?

Preventive care needs certified health coaches Recently, I was at the official launch of the Flemish Association of Health Coaches (VVGC) in Bruges. Over 200 people gathered to listen to the purpose and ambitions of the professional association: they want to train, certify and support preventive health coaches. This way, VVGC wants to guarantee quality

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