Nordic Health Lab — Vi mobiliserer brede partnerskaber, der fremtidssikrer hele Danmarks sundhedsvæsen

We mobilize broad partnerships that future-proof Denmark's entire healthcare system

Why?
Our purpose is to contribute to solving the major challenges facing the healthcare system and to create a future-proof healthcare system.

How?
We mobilize broad and cross-functional partnerships to develop new scalable solutions to the major challenges facing healthcare.

What?
As an impartial national actor, we work to establish broad public-private partnerships that build capacity for innovation in hospitals, municipalities and the companies they collaborate with

Our 3 unique aspects

We have a systematic process for creating valuable partnerships.

We work systematically to identify the most important challenges in the healthcare sector and to mature the companies that can help solve them. This includes a systematic framework for collaboration, testing and evaluations that are adapted to the individual partnerships.
Our approach provides the best conditions for implementing and scaling innovative solutions

Ongoing knowledge sharing that builds innovation capacity.

We continuously share what we do and learn in our partnerships. This way, as many hospitals, municipalities and companies as possible, can work with innovation for the benefit of the entire ecosystem in and around the healthcare sector.

1:1 relationships and broad networks:

We are closely connected with the companies through continuous 1:1 consulting and with the staff at hospitals and municipalities.
Relationships are a key word in our approach to innovation. We find solutions to the needs of the healthcare sector in our partnerships through strong 1:1 relationships with our partners and broad networks between our partners – municipalities, hospitals and companies

Companies

Nordic Health Lab offers a needs-driven development program for start-ups and SMEs with an innovative health or welfare technology solution. The program consists of various phases designed to prepare companies for collaboration with the public healthcare system and to support public-private partnerships for testing and evaluating solutions.

The aim is to match solutions with the healthcare system’s needs and to create strong public-private collaborations for testing and evaluation. All of this is to create value for companies, citizens, patients, and employees.

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Hospitals & Municipalities

We collaborate with innovative and collaborative hospitals and municipalities that are involved in improving healthcare with dedicated resources – both at management level and with innovation consultants.

At these hospitals and municipalities, we facilitate test runs of the companies’ solutions – in close collaboration with healthcare professionals and innovation consultants.

Nordic Health Lab matches hospitals’ needs assessments with innovative solutions from private companies

It is crucial for us to understand the innovation needs of our partner hospitals. Therefore, we engage in a process where we identify various needs together with the hospitals’ innovation consultants, department heads and hospital management.

In this way, we can:

– Ensure that we match companies’ innovative solutions with the actual needs of the hospitals.

– Identify cross-cutting development needs that innovation hubs and the healthcare industry can develop new solutions for.

Thus, we can present a range of different needs that – to a greater or lesser extent – cut across our partner hospitals. Solutions addressing these needs will therefore be in demand both across hospitals and across multiple regions.

The identified needs are not an exhaustive list, but they provide an overview of some of the needs we have identified in collaboration with our partner hospitals and find relevant to share with those working on future solutions.

Click on the below button to learn more about the hospitals’ needs assessment within innovative solutions

See Hospitals' Needs Assessment

We facilitate test runs

Test runs at hospitals and municipalities

We ensure that solutions are tested, realized, documented and aimed at implementation.

One of our goals is to increase the value of companies after they have tested, improved and co-created their solution in a professional healthcare environment.

We have facilitated test runs for – or trained – companies with innovative solutions such as:

AI-powered caregiving system: Teton.ai
Blood Volume Measurement in 15 minutes Detalo Health
VR training glasses for elderly patients SyncSense
Database search for MR-scannings (NordInsight)
Interactive solutions to reduce children’s anxiety during medical procedure Doktor Universe
Medtech device reducing childbirth ruptures Oasi Care
Prevention of pressure ulsers Levabo and Careturner

Partnerships

Partnerships

We mobilize broad and cross-cutting partnerships of new scalable solutions to the major challenges of healthcare.

The partnerships create value on several levels:

Improve the healthcare system through development, testing, and implementation of new innovative solutions to key problems
Provide private companies, especially start-ups, access to new public markets, strengthening their competitiveness
Ensure that problems and solutions meet
Create connections across and between involved actors — locally and centrally, regionally and across sectors
Translate ideas and knowledge into action
Ensure that resources spent on testing create results and value