The Digital Health Nation Innovation Booster, powered by Innosuisse, accelerates healthcare transformation by fostering collaboration and innovation across Switzerland.
Through Open Innovation Challenges, we unite experts, patients and entrepreneurs to address critical healthcare needs and co-create impactful solutions.
Our mission is to empower ideas that deliver tangible value to patients, clinicians and the healthcare system. By providing funding, mentorship and a collaborative ecosystem, we support innovators in turning bold concepts into ready-to-implement solutions.
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Through carefully designed events, culminating in a Challenge-driven onsite Open Innovation Day, we foster collaboration and knowledge exchange, creating a shared understanding of the problems being addressed and generating innovative solutions. These events are grounded in the principles of open innovation, enabling diverse perspectives to shape impactful ideas.
Our structured approach emphasizes building strong partnerships early on, ensuring that the proposed solutions are co-created with input from all key stakeholders. This stage sets the foundation for actionable ideas that address real-world challenges in healthcare.
This phase is focused on validating feasibility, desirability and viability to ensure solutions are practical, meet user needs, and have the potential for sustainable implementation.
With tailored coaching and up to CHF20,000 in non-dilutive funding, selected teams are equipped to create and validate minimum viable products (MVPs). By leveraging partnerships and real-world insights, this stage ensures that solutions are tested and prepared for integration into the Swiss healthcare ecosystem.
Funding up to CHF20,000 to develop and validate your MVP.
Receive 30+ hours of personalized mentoring from leading experts to test the desirability, viability and feasibility of your idea.
Connect with the Challenge owners, other program participants, and our consortium partners.
“AI for code quality and completeness validation under TARDOC and outpatient flat rates“
Challenge brought by:
As Swiss hospitals prepare for the transition to TARDOC 2026, ensuring the accuracy and completeness of clinical coding is critical to avoid revenue loss, reduce manual overhead, and maintain regulatory compliance.
Open innovation call (finalised): May – July 2025
Idea to MVP stage (finalised): August – October 2025 (for selected Top 5 projects)
“Improving clinical data capture for better healthcare outcomes”
Challenge brought by:
We’re looking for solutions to simplify and standardize clinical data capturing using openEHR as the standard. The focus is on improving data quality, reducing system fragmentation, and supporting better healthcare workflows at the University Hospital Basel.
Open innovation call (finalised): February – March 2025
Idea to MVP stage (finalised): April – June 2025 (for selected Top 5 projects)
To sponsor one of our Challenges, become part of our public-private consortium or learn more about the program, please contact us to learn more about partnership possibilities.
Kevin Hof
Mavenhealth
Maren Schinz
Beyond Diagnostics
Perrine Lhuillier
neurodAIgnostics
Novartis Pavillon, St. Johanns-Hafen-Weg, 5, 4056 Basel
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Manager Innovation Projects, DayOne / Lead, Digital Health Nation IB
