The Danish start-up Cortrium has been a Pfizer cooperation partner since 2017. With its long-term wireless ECG device, the company contributes to a study on cardiac arrhythmias in Covid-19 infections. The ACOVID study of the Herlev-Gentofte University Hospital in Copenhagen is intended to provide information on whether arrhythmias are an underestimated consequence of Covid-19. Covid-19 patients will be equiped with Cortrium's device so that heart activity can be measured over three months. The findings of this study should serve as a guideline and be useful for further research.

From 27th of May – Introduction – to 1st of July – DemoDay – the “Start-Up Lab Health” will take place in the Start-Up Accelerator BADENCAMPUS in the European city of Breisach am Rhein.

Who should apply?

• You are interested in start-ups or the start-up scene.
• You already have an idea or you would like to work on a given idea.
• You want to learn about the development of a business model.

We from the Pfizer Healthcare Hub are on board as mentors and jurors and we are looking forward to meeting you in the lab.

From 22nd to 24th May, the Freiburg Hackathon 2020 will focus on the topic of "Smart & Digital Health" - thereby making a virtual contribution to the field of e-health. As a team, we are looking forward to networking with digital innovators and taking the first steps towards new joint collaborations. The focus this year will be on issues such as: Which digital tools can doctors use to simplify and accelerate their processes? How can the "customer journey" from the initial admission of patients to their discharge or recovery be improved? What possibilities are there for digitally networking the various players in the healthcare industry such as health insurance companies, social welfare services, clinics and patients? We are looking forward to meet you at the Hackathon.

On the digitalNOW blog of the DIGIHUB Südbaden Peter Neske, Innovation Lead Healthcare Hub Freiburg, shares his insights from the work during the corona crisis, what makes him optimistic and what he can be proud of during this special time. [German only]

Peter Neske, Lead Pfizer Healthcare Hub Freiburg, is one of the city’s nine anniversary ambassadors. At the 900th anniversary, the well- connected networker will be primarily contributing to raising awareness of the city’s role in the fields of business and innovation.

How can we become faster, more innovative, better, more efficient and do more for the environment?” We warmly invite you to the event at our production site in Freiburg on November 20th2019. In dialogue with regional players in a series of themed workshops organised in collaboration with the Chamber of Industry and Commerce Southern Upper Rhine and StartUp.connect, the start-up network of the Ortenau region, we will be sharing experiences and developing potential concepts for the optimisation of our own production.

The German Digital Healthcare Act (DVG) has already been drafted, yet tangible criteria relating to digital healthcare applications (DiGAs) remain unclear. In the next Startup-‘Sprechstunde’ on November 28thwe will be discussing questions like ‘How will prescriptions by medical practitioners be made possible in the future?’. Together with the Health Innovation Hub (hih) of the Federal Ministry of Health (BMG) and experts from Pfizer, we will be discussing implications of the German Digital Healthcare Act (DVG), will be giving practical tips and discussing alternate options.

Since autumn of this year, a new healthcare incubator calls Berlin its home – the Health Vision Pioneers. With their concept, the founding members wish to provide assistance and support to specialists with a background in medicine or psychology who are planning to set up their own businesses. Between 2020 and 2022, their programme offers up to 40 participants the opportunity to develop their healthcare ideas, test them with real patients in everyday clinic situations and acquire the necessary business expertise. We from the Pfizer Healthcare Hub Berlin are accompanying the process as professional specialists and mentors.

"Knowledge, support, create - Concentrated know-how in your area here in Freiburg."

Following this motto, the new website of the Start-up:NET Region Freiburg offers answers to almost all questions of the Freiburg start-up scene:

Where is room for your ideas, where does the necessary money come from and who is there to support you?

Here you will find numerous helpful tips and information from start-up financing to target group marketing.

As network partner of the Start-up:NET Region Freiburg, we at the Healthcare Hubs Freiburg and Berlin look forward to get in touch with you.

EIT Health is one of the currently eight funded Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs) of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT).

EIT Health's Start-Ups Meet Pharma format is an acceleration programme that brings together start-ups developing innovative solutions for chronic health problems with leading European pharmaceutical partners. By bringing partners together, the program enables start-ups and pharmaceutical companies to tackle major healthcare challenges together.

We at the Pfizer Healthcare Hub are personally involved here as "External Partners" and looking forward to the exchange with European innovators.