Understand the Health+ Program:

Our Health+ team primarily target students and researchers with a connection to healthcare, life science and medical technology at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. If capacities allow, the offers are also open to external interested parties who would like to test the feasibility of a product idea, develop a business model based on their own R&D results, want to compete in start-up competitions, want to apply for public funding or are aiming for a start-up in the sphere of “Health+”.

Animation Coaching Session

Coaching

  • Individual, holistic coaching throughout the start-up process and beyond if necessary
  • Interactive workshops & programmes to impart start-up know-how, oriented towards the Lean Canvas Model.
  • Aid to assist market potential identification, business model development, prototype development and production, industry standard certification.
Animation Networking

Networking

  • We provide you with companies and contacts from our regional and national network.
  • Through the association of the University Hospital Bochum, we are regionally connected with 8 university hospitals alone. Clinical validation processes benefit from the affiliation to the most modern cutting-edge medicine.
  • Our network includes competences in the areas of DiGA & selective contracts with health insurance companies.
Animation Financing

Financing

  • We support selected start-up teams in acquiring funding from external sources (e.g. Exist).
  • We help to find suitable funding programmes and write applications
  • We facilitate networking with potential investors through our Bochum-Berlin Alliance & various events (e.g. Health+ Lion’s Cave)

Our Health Sectors:

The Health Sector is a broad industry with a lot of potential and branches in every direction.
To better understand us and our expertise, we have made this summary

Digital Health

  • Telemedicine
  • Health Apps
  • Remote Monitoring Systems

Biotechnology

  • Medical Research
  • Genomics
  • Therapeutic Innovations

Medical Technology

  • Diagnostic Devices
  • Imaging Procedures
  • Surgical Instruments

Pharmaceuticals

  • Development of new drugs
  • Biopharmaceuticals
  • Personalised Medicine

Healthcare Services

  • Nursing Services
  • Outpatient Care
  • Health Centres

Health Data Management

  • Data Analysis in the healthcare sector
  • Electronic Health Records
  • Data protection and security solutions

Wellness and Prevention

  • Fitness Technology
  • Nutrition Counselling
  • Stress Management

Aging Technologies

  • Technologies for the care of the elderly
  • Gerontechnology
  • Ambient Assisted Living

Rehabilitation Technologies

  • Technologies for physical Rehabilitation
  • Prosthetics and Orthotics
  • Neurorehabilitation

Healthcare Financing

  • Insurance Technologies in the healthcare Sector
  • Health Savings Accounts
  • Peer-to-peer healthcare financing

Environmental and Health Solutions

  • Air and water treatment technologies
  • Health-conscious buildings and cities
  • Environmental Monitoring in the health context