Health Capital Helsinki

U.S. Reimbursement - Understanding Key Concepts to Maximize Business Succes
2021-04-22 17:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Helsinki)
Organiser: MedTechBridge
Until recently, medical device companies were primarily focused on designing and earning regulatory clearance for their new technologies. While innovative design and FDA approval are important for market entry, reimbursement is now a top concern for medical device executives, their investors and other healthcare stakeholders. This presentation by Tom Hughes (Sr. Principal Advisor at Covance Medical Device & Diagnostics) will describe the key elements for reimbursement success; advice for developing an effective reimbursement strategy; and information about the importance of demonstrating clinical and economic value for new medical technology entering the U.S. market.

Health DigiBooster: Smart hospitals seminar
2021-04-22 10:00 - 12:00
Organiser: OuluHealth with partners
Would you like to know what a future hospital will look like and what technologies will be deployed to improve patient experience and the quality of care? Future healthcare is often defined as affordable, personalized, flexible and personalized. Will a future hospital meet these requirements?
Health DigiBooster aims at bringing the vision of a futuristic smart hospital a step closer. This event offers an opportunity to talk to healthcare professionals working in smart hospitals in the Netherlands and in Finland. Join the discussion, ask your questions and learn about the most important practices that make a smart hospital.

Miksi huipputeknologian ja digitalisaation innovaatioita pitää saada käyttöön ja miten se tehdään? (in Finnish)
2021-04-22 08:00 - 09:45
Järjestäjä: Health Capital Helsinki, Helsinki Business Hub ja Sailab ‒ MedTech Finland ry
Health Capital Helsinki, Helsinki Business Hub ja Sailab ‒ MedTech Finland ry yhdistävät voimansa avatakseen keskustelun terveysalan innovaatioista, T&K-toiminnasta ja investoinneista. Me suomalaiset ja terveydenhuoltojärjestelmämme tarvitsemme uutta ajattelua.
Yhteistyössä järjestettävän seminaarisarjan kolmas osa, Miksi huipputeknologian ja digitalisaation innovaatioita pitää saada käyttöön ja miten se tehdään?, järjestetään torstaina 22.4.2021.
Katso ohjelma tapahtumasivulta ja ilmoittaudu mukaan!

NLSDays Digital 2021
2021-04-20 - 2021-04-23
Organiser: SwedenBIO
Participation: Fee
Nordic Life Science Days is the largest Nordic partnering conference dedicated to the life science industry. The event offers excellent opportunities for digital face-to-face meetings, and for presenting your company to investors and potential partners. The partnering platform is open and waiting for you to start sending meeting requests.
The virtual format enables the delivery of 2 days of live and on-demand educational content (20-21 April) as well as 4 days of partnering (20-23 April).
Health Capital Helsinki has the opportunity to offer a discount code for for attending NLSDays 2021. Interested? Contact: kaisu.sutinen@healthcapitalhelsinki.fi.

EU funding for Health technologies
2021-04-15 15:00 - 15:45
Organiser: Spinverse
Are you interested in the possibilities of Horizon Europe for healthcare funding? If your answer is yes, join this webinar to learn about the growth opportunities for innovative health tech companies! In the 45-minute webinar, Spinverse funding experts tell you about the opportunities of EU funding for health tech. You will also hear how Finnish health tech company Evondos Oy has boosted their growth with public funding.

Opportunity for mentoring for female-led health startups
2021-04-15
Calling female-led health startups!
Global-EU Women Entrepreneurs & Innovators in Health Sector event connects startups with top mentors. It’s a unique opportunity for global-EU women-led startups to participate in personal high-level mentoring sessions, and an inspiring opening event for everyone interested in the topic of female entrepreneurship.
Sign up by 19 April for
• An online event on the latest news on supporting global-EU Female entrepreneurship, Finnish Health Tech female ecosystem and high-level mentoring: 27 April at 12-13.30 CET (14-15.30 Helsinki time). Register here.
Apply by 15 April for
• One to one high-level mentoring session for global-EU female startups in health: 28 & 29 April. Limited places for 100 best candidates from around the world. Apply here.

Nordea Investor Speed Dating
2021-04-14
Startups/scaleups, check out Nordea Investor Speed Dating events and apply asap:
14/4 Startups looking for funding (seed funding)
5/5 Scaleups looking for funding (A-round and beyond)

Health Talks: Business Finland services
2021-04-13 10:00 - 11:30
Organiser: Terkko Health Hub, Aalto University, Health Design, Kuopio Health, OuluHealth ecosystem, and Upgraded
Come hear what Business Finland can offer your organization and meet the experts in a virtual Q&A!
Business Finland is the Finnish innovation funding, trade, investment, and travel promotion organization. Business Finland is fully owned by the Finnish Government and employs 600 experts in 40 offices globally and in 20 regional offices around Finland.

The Fair Health Data Challenge
2021-04-09
Does your organisation have a health and well-being solution based on data sharing and fair principles?
With The Fair Health Data Challenge, The Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra is looking for examples from all over Europe to show the way to adopting shared rules for a fair data economy. The aim is to identify existing or soon-to-be-published health and well-being solutions that are based on data sharing and fair principles. Human-centricity is seen as an advantage in the solution.
The prize is the benefit of the expertise of an international jury with which the 10 most promising solutions will be developed to become even better. There will also be international visibility on offer.
You can register for the challenge until 9 April 2021.

Terveysteknologian käytettävyys -valmennus (in Finnish)
2021-04-08
Järjestäjä: USBIMED
Maksullinen valmennus
Käytännönläheinen valmennuskokonaisuus lääkinnällisten laitteiden (mukaan lukien ohjelmistot) käytettävyyssuunnittelusta regulaatiomausteella. Tavoitteena on auttaa tuoteyritystä, tutkimushanketta tai valmistajan roolissa toimivaa terveydenhuollon ykskköä turvallisuuskriittisten laitteiden ja ohjelmistojen käyttöliittymä- ja käytettävyyssuunnittelun viranomaisvaatimusten ja erityispiirteiden tunnistamisessa sekä käytännön toteutuksessa. Valmennuspäivät: 8.4., 22.4. ja 6.5.

Tahko Ski Lift Pitch
2021-04-08
Organiser: Kuopio Region Finncham
Eastern Finland’s biggest startup-event Tahko Ski Lift Pitch is the place to be for investors, startups as well as growth companies in different business stages. Depending on your interests you can either apply for the pitching competition, or if pitching is not your thing, join in as a viewer!

Health Tuesday: Future of clinical trials
2021-04-06 08:00 - 10:00
Organiser: Business Finland
How to bring new innovative medicines faster for the patients?
One thing is to increase the speed of clinical trials through utilization of digital technologies and platforms together with data science, AI, virtual trials and new study designs. Can we improve the health outcomes and reduce the burden on patients, health care providers and overall costs by digitalizing clinical trials? Come and discuss how Finland can play a key role in this transformation because of high-quality health data sources, openness for data sharing, AI as a national priority and innovative mindset towards smarter solutions.

Interested in creating new medical technology? Apply for Biodesign Innovation Online Course
2021-04-06
Biodesign Innovation Online Course (3 ECTS) in May 2021 is your opportunity to learn how need-driven innovation and commercialization of medical technology (medtech) works. During the course, together with your interdisciplinary team, you will create a concept and a business case for your own medical technology. Your solution addresses a real and validated need in healthcare, based on direct observations of problems. By the end of the course, you will pitch your concept and medtech business case to real investors in a “shark tank”.
Read on eligibility for the course and apply by 6 April!

Tiedolla johtaminen terveydenhuollossa - miten huipputeknologiaa ja digitalisaatiota voidaan hyödyntää? (in Finnish)
2021-03-31 08:00 - 09:45
Järjestäjä: Health Capital Helsinki, Helsinki Business Hub ja Sailab ‒ MedTech Finland ry
Health Capital Helsinki, Helsinki Business Hub ja Sailab ‒ MedTech Finland ry yhdistävät voimansa avatakseen keskustelun terveysalan innovaatioista, T&K-toiminnasta ja investoinneista. Me suomalaiset ja terveydenhuoltojärjestelmämme tarvitsemme uutta ajattelua.
Yhteistyössä järjestettävän seminaarisarjan toinen osa, Tiedolla johtaminen terveydenhuollossa – miten huipputeknologiaa ja digitalisaatiota voidaan hyödyntää?, järjestetään keskiviikkona 31.3.2021.
Tilaisuus on ilmainen. Tervetuloa!

New business in the senior economy: BSR Interreg Osiris Innovation Program
2021-03-31
Do you have a business idea related to silver economy? Apply to BSR Interreg Osiris Innovation Program, targeted to teams and startups that have a business idea related to age-friendly, smart living environments.
The Innovation Program (from 6 April to 15 May 2021) aims to identify innovations and innovators in the silver economy and to enable new product and service ideas to enter the market as efficiently as possible through expert sparring.

Based on the applications, first teams will be selected for a virtual interview conducted by business experts. After the interviews, 5-8 teams will be included in the incubation program.

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Need fresh thinking? Partner up with Digital Wellbeing Sprint
2021-03-31
Do you need fresh thinking and out of the box ideas for your company’s/organization’s digital solutions related to health and wellbeing?
Do you lack resources to improve functions or operations of your company/organization?
Do you have a challenge that you could let a group of students solve?
Digital Wellbeing Sprint (DWS) is an intensive course organized by Laurea, Haaga-Helia and Metropolia University of Applied Sciences (also called as 3UAS) in May 2021. It is based on open innovation and co-creation methods. Project includes seven intensive working days when students in multidisciplinary teams create future digital services for health and wellbeing sector. Teams generate ideas and test user-friendly digital solutions for partner organizations. Would your company be one of those partners? Partnership is free of charge for companies/organizations. DWS will be organized using remote access.
Contact: Merja Lahdenperä, merja.lahdenpera@metropolia.fi, tel. 040 630 2042

Health Talks: Startup roundtable: How to raise funding?
2021-03-26 10:00 - 11:00
Organiser: Terkko Health Hub, Aalto University, Health Design, Kuopio Health, OuluHealth ecosystem, and Upgraded
Getting funding to your startup is not an easy task! During this webinar you will get insights from three startups on how they have successfully raised funding. The event will be organised as a roundtable discussion between three founders: Visa Sippola from Surgify, Harri Sihto from Sartar Therepeutics and Virpi Muhonen from Askel Healthcare. The roundtable discussion is moderated by Otto Olavinen, the CEO from Northbay and the main organiser of Health Design.

Cybersecurity in Healthcare – The new era of digital health demands the highest level of cybersecurity
2021-03-25 17:30 - 19:00
Organiser: Helsinki Business Hub, Amcham and the US Embassy of Finland
Protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information has become extremely crucial in healthcare. Cybersecurity is a growing concern with new digital healthcare services. Our personal health and genomic data help the development of new treatments methods for cancer and rare diseases as well as for global pandemics. At the same time, we need to protect that personal data from leaking. Digital solutions are available to improve healthcare processes, the efficiency of treatment, and communication. Health data privacy is a hot topic globally.
In this event, experts from Finland and the US share their best practices on how to protect against threats and secure data privacy of medical records, private and public networks as well as medical devices, mobile devices, and IoT.

Accelerate Helsinki
2021-03-25 - 2021-03-29
Organiser: City of Helsinki
How can companies, entrepreneurs, and cities together create sustainable growth and wellbeing in the future? Accelerate Helsinki is a series of events for companies, partners and cities to co-create Helsinki towards becoming the world’s most functional business environment. There are three events, and one of them is in English.

Medical device software regulation and compliance 2021 (EU MDR 2017/745)
2021-03-24
Organiser: USBIMED
Participation: Fee
Training day Medical device software regulation and compliance 2021 (EU MDR 2017/745) – practice and current topics – is aimed especially for Finnish medical device product companies, research projects and healthcare units developing medical software and digital health products or services. Training day is also suitable to all software or regulatory affairs professionals in general who work with theme in practice or are leading these activities.

Digital Incubator – Your entry to the German Market
2021-03-23
Interestested in the German market? NEXT MANNHEIM offers a 4-week program, the Digital Incubator, that gives you all the knowledge and contacts you need for your establishment in Mannheim. The program runs 6-27 April.

Read more and apply by 23 March!

Nordic Life Science meeting: Nordic Life Science co-operation for stronger competitiveness
2021-03-18 14:00 - 16:30
Organiser: Lif, Lif Denmark, LMI, Pif
With the aim of a strong and competitive Life Science sector, what do we need in the form of strategies, initiatives and future collaborations?
The national associations of the pharmaceutical industry in the Nordic countries invite interested parties to a digital seminar on 18 March to discuss how national Life Science strategies and increased cooperation can lead to a more competitive Nordic region.

Miten hoitotyö, kuntoutus ja terveysteknologia sovitetaan yhteen? (in Finnish)
2021-03-18 14:00 - 16:30
Järjestäjä: TEHY ry ja Sailab -MedTech Finland ry
Terveysteknologia hoitotyössä ja kuntoutuksessa – mitä hyötyä työhöni? on TEHY ry:n ja Sailab -MedTech Finland ry:n yhteishanke.
Yhteishankkeessa järjestetään keväällä 2021 kuusi tapahtumaa. Tapahtumissa jaetaan malleja, kokemuksia ja tietoa siitä, miten hoitotyön ja kuntoutuksen ammattilaiset jo nyt ympäri Suomea hyödyntävät päivittäisessä työssään terveysteknologiaa. Tapahtumat lisäävät ymmärrystä terveysteknologian ratkaisuista ja mahdollisuuksista, antavat tietoa siitä miten omaa työtä ja osaamista voidaan kehittää, miten koulutus järjestetään ja miten työn kuormittavuutta voidaan vähentää. Tavoitteena on siirtää yhdessä katse kohti terveyden tulevaisuutta.

HCH Health TV: Revolution on Health - How can data management save patients’ lives?
2021-03-17 17:00 - 18:00
Organiser: Health Capital Helsinki
How can data management and AI assist doctors to diagnose and provide better cancer treatment? We invite you to hear about HUS Helsinki University Hospital’s unique leukemia project, showing how latest technology is used to locate the best personalised treatment options for each individual patient.

Start-ups Meet Pharma 2021
2021-03-16 08:00 - 17:00
Five challenges and five pharma companies ready to work with you!
EIT Health and five pharma companies, Abbott, Takeda, Merck, Amgen and AstraZeneca, invite start-ups to address the challenges they face with operational products and services. Check out the 2021 challenges in the link below!
If you are developing innovative technologies and services representing potential solutions for the selected challenges, submit your application by 16 March.

European Healthtech Investment Forum 2021
2021-03-16 - 2021-03-19
Organiser: Business Finland and TechTour
Business Finland and Tech Tour will continue the successful European Healthtech Investment Forum event series in 2021 in digital format. New this year: access to see pitches from 40 preselected healthtech companies is free & open for viewing to all.

Are you ready take your business to the US? Join EIT Global Bridgehead Program
2021-03-16
Apply to the EIT Health Bridgehead Global Program, the programme that brings together European health entrepreneurs who want to grow their business beyond their home market with US experts and accelerators who have the expertise and resources to make it happen.
What will you get?

A grant of €40,000 to use with a network of handpicked and trusted Catalysers.
A unique opportunity to be introduced to potential partners and access expert knowledge of the local health ecosystem in participating countries.
Progress with setting up local sales teams, getting distribution agreements signed-off, developing pricing strategies and more

Who can apply?

Companies with fewer than 250 full time employees that deliver transformative products and services in biotech, medtech or digital health
You are selling your product or service in at least one market in Europe and ready to open up to a new market
Your company is registered in Europe

Create an account on the application platform and apply by 16 March!
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EIT Health Catapult: fast-tracking Europe’s best start-ups
2021-03-16
Introducing a unique competition and training programme that showcases biotech, medtech and digital health start-ups to leading experts and investors across Europe. The programme recognises and awards the very best business concepts, fast-tracking start-ups to become part of the EIT Health Community of world-leading companies.
This one-of-a-kind, rigorous and rewarding competition spotlights start-ups that offer best value to users and customers. Throughout the process, start-ups receive intensive training as they build their credibility and visibility through pan-European exposure. Finalists are showcased at the EIT Health Summit as they go head-to-head for their share of the €210,000 investment prize fund with the Audience Award Winner displayed on the New York Nasdaq Tower.
Apply by 16 March!

Health Incubator Helsinki open for applications
2021-03-15
Health Incubator Helsinki, Finland’s first long-term business development environment for research-based health sector startups, is welcoming new applications until 15 March 2021. After the selection process, approximately 12 teams will be chosen for the program to start in May 2021.
If you have a business idea related to the health sector, Health Incubator Helsinki could be right for you! Most of the businesses the incubator supports are research-based.

Health & Life Science Initiative
2021-03-11
Calling all health & life science startups solving challenges related to diabetes and cardiovascular diseases!
Innovestor has launched a new initiative together with its corporate venturing partners Medtronic, Novartis and the Central Finland Health Care District, that focuses on fostering co-creation between startups and corporations.
The initiative is for business driven proof-of-concept startups based in the Nordics & Baltics focusing on the prevention and treatment of diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. 2-4 startups will be selected to begin the co-creation process which will span a three-month period.
