The Innovation Catalyst, powered by DayOne, 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 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 support 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.
In spring 2026, we’ll launch a new Open Innovation Challenge in partnership with University Hospital Basel and Personalized Health Basel focused on co-developing interoperable, openEHR-based digital health solutions that streamline clinical workflows, elevate data quality, and improve patient outcomes.
Stay tuned for the call for applications.
“AI for code quality and completeness validation under TARDOC and outpatient flat rates“
Challenge brought by:
May – October, 2025: As Swiss hospitals are transitioning to TARDOC 2026, ensuring the accuracy and completeness of clinical coding is critical to avoid revenue loss, reduce manual overhead, and maintain regulatory compliance.
“Streamlining clinical workflows and elevating standards of care with openEHR-powered, rapidly deployable digital health solutions”
Challenge brought by:
February – June, 2025: Focus on solutions to simplify and standardize clinical data capturing using openEHR as the standard with a goal of improving data quality, reducing system fragmentation, and supporting better healthcare workflows at the University Hospital Basel.
Learn more about the Open Innovation Challenge “Improving clinical data capture for better healthcare outcomes” (February – Jun 2, 2025)
Innovation Catalyst builds on the legacy of the Digital Health Nation Innovation Booster (2022–2025), applying the same open innovation and co-creation principles to a new generation of healthcare challenges.
Kevin Hof
Mavenhealth
Maren Schinz
Beyond Diagnostics
Perrine Lhuillier
neurodAIgnostics
Novartis Pavillon, St. Johanns-Hafen-Weg, 5, 4056 Basel
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