Open innovation platform

2017-2018

Flanders

Healthcare

From healthcare to 'care for health'

iCareForHealth is a cross-discipline innovation network of companies and professionals who want to contribute to the necessary transformation of our health model: from “healthcare” = focus on disease and treatment to “care for health” = focus on health and prevention.

In iCareForHealth we look for new services and products that contribute to this transformation and are supported by healthcare providers and end users. Our ultimate goal is affordable and high-quality health care in which each of us is encouraged and guided to actively take care of his health and that of others.

Goal

With icareforhealth we build a multi-disciplinary network of innovative companies and professionals. We aim to create demand-driven innovations in the services of our companies. The innovative services are designed, developed, tested and validated together with the end users and other stakeholders through a sustainable business model, coupled with a realistic and supportive legal framework.

The network wants to contribute to defining a future-oriented health model:

  • services that better respond to the needs of patients and end users (user centric)
  • prevention and early diagnosis of diseases to cure and conscious healthier life.
  • a holistic approach to health, including mental health, physical exercise, nutrition and other social perspectives (eg culture, fashion, architecture, technology, …) as pillars in the health and care model.

Approach

We focus on three work areas (‘iCareLabs’) in which the user (patient or healthy citizen) is central:

  1. Work Care Lab: prevention and coaching regarding. health on the work floor (eg prevention of burn-out)
  2. Primary Care Lab: integration of care, therapy and prevention guidance in the first line (eg GP 2.0)
  3. Home Care Lab: health, care and assistance in the living room (eg family health dashboard)

We focus on target groups that are currently not so much in the scope of complementary networks as the care-testing gardens, namely the Generation X and Millennials: so also the generation of you and I, our children and grandchildren.

Activities

  • Organization of innovation learning journeys, learning and inspiration moments around new applications, technologies and business models around which new services can be developed.
  • Facilitating innovation bootcamps, co-creation sessions and hackathons for the elaboration of ideas into practical applications through design thinking, business modeling and lean methodologies.
  • Setting up living labs in a real practice setting: eg first line medical practice or group practice, home care and business environment (company doctor and HR).
  • Cross-fertilization with other cross-sectoral learning trajectories on nutrition, technology, design, architecture, … to inspire, supplement and collaborate our health-driven innovations to practice
  • Structure and supervision of projects and / or business plans for feasibility, funding and partnering within the icareforhealth network.

More info

 

Main Partners:

  • Televic Healthcare
  • Mensura
  • CMast (Adecco group)
  • Telenet
  • Colruyt Group (SmartWIthFood)
  • Act with care
  • University of Antwerp
  • VITO
  • Cubigo
  • HICT
  • Emma.health
  • Different doctor practices

Alain Van Echelpoel,

Director Strategic Collaboration & Innovation @ CMAST

We want to actively build a preventive health economy with iCareForHealth

Joost Thurman,

Co-founder The Argonauts

iCareForHealth fits perfectly with our purpose-driven and cross-sector innovation approach

Our partners in the iCareForHealth Open Innovation Platform are:

China Calling II
Workshop - innoveren met je Collega's
Innovate with your team
Menu