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SWISS DIGITAL HEALTH®

LAUNCHING A NATIONAL HEALTH-TECH CLUSTER

Based on a background of initiating digital health projects and mobilizing regional hospitals in Valais with Hacking Health, the Ark Foundation has launched a major health-tech cluster initiative: Swiss Digital Health®.

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Swiss Digital Health® aims to initiate and empower ambitious projects to improve global healthcare systems – with reputable Swiss solutions. The initiative begins by detecting unmet and emerging needs. The intended outcome? The successful market launch of new solutions, The initiative intends to breathe innovation into each stage of the health value chain. Through targeted Hacking Health events, innovation challenges, design workshops, special trainings, hackathons or acceleration programs, Swiss Digital Health® is backing abilities and nurturing opportunities. With Hacking Health being an integral part of the cluster, it fosters international collaborations and helps to expand the digital health business and innovation network.

Hacking Health helps us be part of a dynamic ecosystem integrating local, national and international stakeholders and to initiate ambitious projects.

Sebastien Mabillard, leader,
Swiss Digital Health


25,000

CHF 1st prize

2

Communities
French & German-speaking

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