Visitor Programme | Connecting Health IT Germany

From 24 – 26 April, Task Force Health Care (TFHC), in cooperation with the Netherlands Business Support Office (NBSO) Stuttgart, organises a visitor programme to and during the ConhIT trade fair and congress in Berlin. The ConhIT is the most prominent eHealth and health IT event in Europe.

eHealth Opportunities in Germany

With more than 80 million inhabitants, Germany is the largest healthcare market in the European Union. Ideally located to the east of the Netherlands, it is no surprise that Germany is the number one export destination for Dutch businesses and a great market for companies to start their export activities as well as to further build on already existing activities.

Germany shares a number of health challenges with The Netherlands, namely: an ageing population, rising costs of healthcare and a need to quickly and securely share medical information between healthcare providers and patient. As Germany is a large country, eHealth solutions also provide a possible answer to healthcare delivery in rural and structurally weak areas.

In terms of eHealth, Germany has long been hesitant towards eHealth solutions from a privacy point of view. However, since the eHealth Law was passed at the end of 2015, which has gone into effect January 1st, 2016, digitisation of the healthcare system has been a priority for German politicians and the healthcare sector alike. These trends and developments make the German market highly interesting for Dutch smart and innovative eHealth solutions.

What to expect?

This visitor programme will give you a great insight in the German eHealth market in a short period of time and will bring you in contact with relevant partners. The programme will consist of the following segments (still subject to change)

• Visit to the ConhIT Trade Fair & Congress, Europe’s most prominent Health IT event.
• Individual matchmaking with relevant parties facilitated by the Enterprise Europe Network.
• Collective visits to relevant organisations in- and around Berlin.
• Pitch event* during which Dutch & German businesses can pitch their products.
  • Keynote speech by Jeroen Tas, CEO Philips Connected Care & Health Informatics
• Network receptions to informally network with relevant parties.
• Länder panel whereby the Dutch delegation will be officially introduced at the ConhIT.
• Knowledge sharing and networking with other members from the Dutch delegation.
• Support from the TFHC (sector specialist) and the NBSO Stuttgart (Germany specialist).

 *Pitches will be carefully selected and are not guaranteed due to limited timeslots.  If interested, contact us!

Target audience for this programme

Businesses and knowledge institutes active in the Healthcare sector, especially (but not exclusively) those focusing on the following areas of expertise:

• eHealth: Smart solutions to use health resources such as information, finance and medicines better and more efficiently. Services and technology to enable remote patient monitoring; better dissemination of information and improved access to health services, remote consultations and telemedicine.
• Mobility & Vitality: Smart products and services designed to stimulate, enable and facilitate disable, less abled and vital citizens to be and stay active and mobile participants/ contributors in society

How to join?

The participation fee for this visitor programme is €645 and €545 for TFHC-members (excluding VAT, travel and lodging expenses).

50% Discount: You may be eligible for an SIB Mission voucher offered by RVO.nl. With a mission voucher, SMEs (MKB’ers) could get a financial compensation towards the participation fee. To find out if you are eligible for the mission voucher, click here for more information.

Please register for the visitor programme before the 31^st of March here.

Preparation meeting

To improve the collective and individual success of the visitor programme, the TFHC will organise a preparatory participant meeting on Tuesday, April 4^th.

More information

Concerning the visitor programme:
TFHC | Guido Danen| E: guido.danen@tfhc.nl  | T: +31 (0) 70 21 99 000.

Concerning the German (e)Health market and its opportunities:
NBSO Stuttgart | Daniel Sonneveldt | E: sonneveldt@nbso-stuttgart.de | T: +49 711 870 38 550

This programme is developed in cooperation with East Netherlands Development Agency and NBSO Stuttgart.