Digital Health Academy 2024: Empowering patients health through AI-driven digital solutions 

The Digital Health Academy is back. In collaboration with Swiss Healthcare Startups, we relaunched our 6-month cohort based program for AI-driven digital health scaleups who enable patients to better understand and monitor their health. We are proud to announce that five scaleups will be participating in this year’s edition alongside our valued partners: ELCA, Ergon Informatik, HKT Design, IBM, MME Legal, PersonalPulse, Swiss Post and Salesforce.

The participating scaleups will benefit from: 

• A physical kick-off which took place on May 16 in Zurich, connecting scaleups and partners through interactive networking and business collaboration
• Mentoring by our expert partners
• In-depth workshops organised by our partners on key topics required for scaling their solutions (e.g. legal aspects with MME Legal or patient inclusion in digital design with PersonalPulse and HKT Design)
• Ecosystem Events where the entrepreneurs get the chance to position themselves as thought leaders on stages across Switzerland (e.g. spotlight event at Digital Health Day on 29 October)
• Spotlight articles to illustrate the scaleups and the collaboration use cases they undertook with the partners

We are very happy to give you a sneak peek of our five selected scaleups chosen for digitalswitzerland’s Digital Health Academy 2024.

AllesHealth is a comprehensive hospital and patient management solution enabling clinician efficiency, remote patient monitoring and personalised healthcare research. The holistic health management platform empowers patients to be in control of the care they receive and enables them to own their own health records.

CNS Therapy enables chronic patients to be pain-free using a neuromodulation device and behavioural therapy without medication, surgery, implants or cannabis. The solution combines physiological approach (cardiac gated stimulation) with psychological approach (eLearning-based behavioural therapy guided by biometric data) to eliminate chronic pain, restore the autonomic nervous system and increase life quality. It is low risk, non-invasive and highly successful.

Exploris Health provides impactful AI-based diagnostic and therapy solutions, which focus on significant improvement of the most challenging areas of diagnostics and therapy while reducing healthcare costs. The first product, Cardio Explorer to detect Coronary Artery Disease has already been launched (CE-marked). Further multi-marker algorithms are already in the pipeline (Heart Failure, Breast/Prostate Cancer).

Mobile Health offers a patient-centred software application which enables patients to record their well-being and symptoms as well as vital parameters and medication intake in a structured and standardised electronic way (ePROs). Patients can also automatically record their vital signs using various medical devices. The doctor receives a structured, clinical grade picture of the patient’s condition and the current and historical course of their therapy. The doctor’s decision-making is supported by AI modules.

Pathmate develops digital coaches to support people with chronic diseases and makes them accessible through its own certified coaching platform. Pathmate’s mission revolves around the fusion of medicine, behavioural psychology and data science to empower individuals on their health journey. At the heart of their solutions is a chatbot that informs, motivates and guides users to improve and take charge of their health.

Are you interested to learn more about the Digital Health Academy?

• Get in touch with Jade Sternberg, Senior Project Lead Digital Health, to learn more about the Digital Health Academy and other initiative’s activities.
• Read the publication from our first Digital Health Academy edition: The Swiss healthcare system: entering a new digital era. It is a visualisation of the innovations in the digital health ecosystem.