Healthwise Digital Innovation Hub

Technology park Ljubljana started an initiative HealthDay.si in 2014 to accelerate placement of digital innovations into the healthcare system of Slovenia and globally. After 4 years, the HealthDay.si initiative reached its critical mass and began forming as a Digital Innovation Hub with clear goals & vision. Technology Park Ljubljana is non-for-profit organisation and consequently also DIH.Healthday.si is a non-for-profit inititative striving to support digital transformation in a healthcare sector.

HealthDay.si platform aims to assist digital innovations to faster meet the needs of patients as well as demands of health care practitioners for the digital technology supported medical care. HealthDay.si brings together experts from innovative companies, healthcare system providers, healthcare economics and communication experts. New models of collaboration were developed and applied by companies through a range of workshops and coaching methods to bring innovative product ideas faster to healthcare providers and patients. DIH provides high level expertise for better understanding of regulatory procedures on the one hand and to better fill the needs of physicians i.e. health care providers and health economics organisations such as insurance companies on the other. DIH HealthDay.si is a platform developed by Technology park Ljubljana to assist companies with innovative healthcare solutions, for better understanding of healthcare economics, for easier navigation through complex regulatory and certification procedures for medical devices. It supports companies with technical compliance of digital solutions, quality management and provision of financing as well as provides other resources needed for accelerated application of innovative products and services in healthcare. A range of training courses and workshops were developed and delivered for companies by the key national experts to raise competences in areas such as application and registration procedures of the digital health solutions to the national Health Council, medico-economics, certification and technical compliance of digital health solutions, marketing in medicine, quality management and financing innovation in healthcare. The governing body of the DIH HealthDay.si is the council of experts that provides guidelines for the digital innovation hub in healthcare and it provided a Roadmap for innovation in healthcare in 2019. Amongst the stakeholders involved in the DIH HealthDay.si are the national Health Insurance Fund, commercial insurance companies, Ministry of Health, Agency for medicines and medical equipment, Medical Chamber of Slovenia, National Institute for Public Health, Association of Healthcare providers and Medical Ethics Commission.

Long term objective for DIH is to allocate 1% of Slovenia’s annual budget in healthcare for much needed innovation development each year until 2027 and thus better address needs of patients for safe, personalised, reliable and technologically advanced medical treatments and therapies benefiting the wellbeing of society as a whole.

HealthDay.si connects stakeholders to enhance and integrate digitalisation-based products in healthcare systems. It supports cross-clustering and cross sectoral innovation in S4 as well as identifies specific needs for competences development and internationalisation with a focus on health and preventive care. DIH HealthDay.si has ambition to create long term partnerships and networks between complementary organisations from business, government and non-government sectors. DIH HealthDay.si is led by the Ljubljana Technology park and it offers services such as business model development, skills trainings, access to knowledge experts, workshops and matchmaking events, financing, internationalisation and IPR assistance.