Since 2016, Handelsblatt together with Techniker Krankenkasse has awarded the Health-i Award for innovative ideas in healthcare. The Health-i Award is intended to give pioneers the opportunity to present their ideas and projects and expand their own networks.
Over 220 applications were received this year in the categories ‘Startups’, ‘Companies’, and ‘Young Projects’. Around 250 representatives from business, politics, and associations attended the awards ceremony in Berlin and celebrated the new ideas for the healthcare industry.
“I am impressed every year by the innovative projects and clever solutions that companies, startups, and young projects bring forth. With their ideas and entrepreneurial courage, they all contribute to making healthcare for people in Germany increasingly better”,
says Jens Baas, CEO of Techniker Krankenkasse.
“Visibility for exciting projects”
And Charlotte Haunhorst, Head of Digital and member of the editorial board at Handelsblatt, adds:
“For us at Handelsblatt, the Health-i Award is the ideal platform to recognize innovative ideas for a more progressive healthcare system. The awards ceremony provides the perfect setting to create visibility for exciting projects and to network with one another.”
Puray emerged as the winner in the “Young Projects” category. The core of the project is a urinary catheter that disinfects itself and thereby protects patients from catheter-related infections. Eduardo Borrero and Christina Weber accepted the award. When asked what comes next, the two said:
“The product is pending patent registration and we are in the process of founding a company.”
Puray already impressed at the Strascheg Award 2020.
In the ‘Startups’ category, Endo Health impressed the judges. With its app, it aims to improve the quality of life for people with endometriosis through a multimodal therapeutic approach combining journaling and exercises from physiotherapy, gynecology, psychology, yoga, and nutritional medicine, while also offering social support.
OnlineDoctor 24 won the ‘Companies’ category. The Hamburg-based company enables people with skin problems to be digitally examined by local dermatologists regardless of location or time.
