2020 Nordic Health Virtual Market Entry Programme: Selected Nordic Companies
This year, the Nordic Innovation House Singapore (NIH-SG) theme on NORDIC HEALTH aims to support and provide selected Nordic HealthTech and MedTech companies an opportunity to expand their foothold in Singapore and Southeast Asia. Our three-phase immersive virtual market entry programme involves partnering with prominent health institutions, key healthcare decision-makers and innovation stakeholders in Singapore's healthcare sector.
The selected Nordic companies will be addressing multiple problem statements gathered from the participating stakeholders. Furthermore, adopting and unifying #nordicmade technology-driven solutions to tackle and elevate Singapore's healthcare infrastructure.
In Phase 1, we have organised two stakeholder introduction webinar sessions for Nordic companies to understand the challenges and business opportunities in the Asian landscape.
24 Jun: Introduction to SingHealth
→ Recorded Webinar: https://youtu.be/hYQCtbzVPdw
In Phase 2, we will onboard the selected Nordic companies with preparation webinars to equip them with a better understanding of the problem statements and backgrounds of each stakeholder. Discuss the market positioning to help elevate their pitch.
In Phase 3, the actual virtual two-week programme (14.9 - 25.9) will enable the selected companies to engage in a series of group showcases, to attend an online investor matchmaking event, and to acquire 1-to-1 business matchmaking sessions with the stakeholders upon request.
This programme is jointly organised by NIH-SG and its core partners Business Sweden, Innovation Norway, Embassy of Finland, and Promote Iceland – sharing the mission to bridge Smart Cities-related delegations.
View Nordic Health Virtual Market Entry Programme - Singapore 2020 Deck
Selected Nordic Companies
Ably Medical AS
Ably is a digital healthcare company, developing predictive analytics. Together with nurses and doctors around the world, we have developed products that equip nurses with intuitive analytics that increase patient safety. “Lyng,” our first product, is a digital analytics platform that helps nurses care more efficiently for their patients using data, collected contactlessly from our sensor mats. "Lyng" unique feature is that we collect real time blood pressure data contactlessly in addition to all other vital signs to analyse patients' state.
→ Website: https://ablymed.com/
ADESANTE
ADESANTE is a Finnish Healthcare IT company having a vision of “ZERO SURGICAL FAILURES”. The company was established in 2017 by a group of healthtech and industrial process animation professionals, providing solutions to solve healthcare challenges with the greatest technologies. Our flagship product, SurgeryVision, helps to reduce "near-miss events", surgical failures and even re-operations in surgery, which altogether would lead to huge cost and process savings in surgery. SurgeryVision is a surgery planning software opening MRI / CT images in Virtual Reality, where surgeons can see those images in 3D stereoscopic format for making proper surgery plans directly into real patients' real imaging data.
→ Website: https://www.surgeryvision.com/
Brighter AB (Publ)
Brighter develops solutions for data-driven and mobile healthcare. The aim is to enhance and improve the efficiency of the information flow of health and treatment data between patient and care provider and to optimise and improve the treatment and monitoring of patients with chronic conditions. Via simplified disease management and personal, data-driven stimuli, the Company aims to help patients achieve greater compliance with their treatment, which can improve quality of life, reduce next of kin anxiety and free up care resources.
→ Website: https://brighter.se/
→ Video: https://youtu.be/qLWfTUbl3eM
CheckWare
CheckWare is made specifically for hospitals and clinical studies that use Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs), screening tools and psychometric tests and that need a secure and efficient digital solution to collect these patients' reported data. Patients are reporting from home and our customers use the data for clinical decision support, home monitoring, to measure patient-reported outcomes and to provide self-management to the patients. CheckWare is an ISO-27001 certified software-as-a-service solution that replaces today’s manual or single-purpose solutions with a complete solution for digital self-reporting. The uniqueness of CheckWare is that it provides access to more than 1.100 ePROMs, screening tools and psychometric tests and can be adapted to any care pathway. It can be combined with health apps and sensors, integrated with an electronic medical record system, allows to measure treatment outcomes for the whole clinic and to collect research data. CheckWare is used by over 300.000 patients at 250 healthcare organisations.
→ Website: https://www.checkware.com/
Crayon Pte Ltd
Crayon helps customers build the commercial and technical foundation for a successful digital transformation journey through a reliable services framework. Crayon’s skills and knowledge have evolved from 18 years of consulting and collaboration with major industry players including Microsoft, Amazon, IBM / Red Hat, Oracle, and Google among others. This has translated into AI/ML competence with more than 100 successfully delivered projects globally that have led Microsoft to choose Crayon as the global AI and Machine Learning Partner of the Year for 2019. Headquartered in Oslo, Norway, Crayon has over 1600 employees across approximately 50 locations worldwide including the Asia Pacific. Crayon focuses on deploying deep data science and consulting capabilities for its clients to create true business value. Organisations can leverage competitive advantages Crayon offers through expert optimisation of big data, creative application of global best practices, AI-centric applications, and machine-learning solutions.
→ Website: https://www.crayon.com/
→ Video: https://vimeo.com/281945120
Cryotech Nordic
CTN Group is a high-tech company, developing and manufacturing advanced cryotherapy devices in Finland. CTN pioneers the new generation of cold therapy devices, which are affordable, safe and easy to operate. CTN products are used by hundreds of top athletes and other end users around the world in over 35 countries. The latest addition to the product range, the electrically operated XCryo, is a true game-changer in the market of cold therapy. It provides an easy to use, affordable yet very efficient and versatile option for physiotherapists, dermatologists and a wide variety of end-users dealing with sports and injury recovery, pain relief etc. The company has started a global scale-up and is looking for strategic financing partners to facilitate this.
→ Website: https://ctn.fi/
Dossier Solutions AS
Dossier allows health systems to effectively establish, manage and enforce competence requirements at the point of work, driving operational excellence. Offering detailed and reliable employee competence data in real-time, it enables robust shift planning / rostering and operational planning - within and between health systems. Our “hub for all learning” ensures safety and quality of care for millions of patients - while making life easier for the almost 300,000 health workers that use it. The business case is solid, spanning administrative savings (38MN€ annually for Norway) as well as the more significant operational and strategic outcomes.
→ Website: https://www.dossier.com/
iCare
iCare is an advanced health technology company based in Vantaa, Finland having manufacturing facilities in Finland and in Italy supported by a global distribution network of over 85 countries.
Tonometers – specialised instruments for measuring, monitoring and screening of Intra Ocular Pressure (IOP) as a part of diagnosing Glaucoma. Ease of use and operational reliability are cornerstones of the iCare product family's success. The unique, patented rebound technology is based on the measuring principle, in which a light-weight probe makes momentary contact with the cornea.
Imaging Products and Perimeters – Imaging products designed and manufactured by iCare Centervue are highly automated, Internet-connected medical devices for the diagnosis and management of ocular pathologies, including those that represent the leading causes of blindness, such as Diabetic Retinopathy, Macular Degenerations and Glaucoma.
→ Website: https://www.icare-world.com/
→ Video 1: https://youtu.be/hq19WSkFv4k
→ Video 2: https://youtu.be/CC38U3OQ8l8
DNV Imatis AS
DNV Imatis takes the friction out of healthcare operations. Our solutions easily integrate and aggregate data from across your healthcare operations. We bring critical information together into a simple overview, in real-time, wherever you are, unlocking your capacity to care. We help clinical, logistical and administrative teams work together more efficiently, to make better decisions for a seamless patient journey. In total, we make up a group of 70 people with headquarters in Norway, passionate about creating technological innovation driving human progress. We hold a unique position in the clinical and patient logistics market, having provided ehealth solutions to hospitals and municipalities in Norway and abroad for almost 20 years. Our common goal is to create digital tools that improve and simplify everyday life for patients, their families, and employees.
→ Website: https://dnvimatis.com/
ISKU Interior Oy
ISKU Interior design and manufacture furniture and offer services and comprehensive interior solutions for learning, working, and healthcare facilities. ISKU+ collection is the world’s first antimicrobial furniture solution contributing to a cleaner environment. Antimicrobial materials cut down the reproduction and spread of microbes. The innovation in our antimicrobial furniture is based on copper and silver technology in surfaces, fabrics, and coatings. The antimicrobial feature can be applied to ISKU’s offering in all public interiors including hospitals. We prefer environmentally sustainable materials and manufacturing methods. This comes to life for example through our certified quality (ISO 9001) and environmental systems (ISO 14001) and by employing the certified tracking system for wood origin, PEFC (CoC) to support sustainable forestry. ISKU+ solutions have been researched in cooperation with universities and other companies within antimicrobial solutions. The most notable research program, IHMEC, focuses on antimicrobial surface applications to mitigate antibiotic resistance within the construction industry. ISKU is also part of the HygTech Alliance, research, and business alliance of Finnish companies with technology for the complete antimicrobial interior.
→ Website: https://www.isku.com/global/
→ Video: https://youtu.be/yBmbpVH_ylA
Protetiko
Protetiko is a digital collaboration platform between dental clinics and dental labs. Through a joint digitised flow for prosthetic orders, the clinics can offer more cost-efficient and better care, which ultimately creates a more positive experience for the patients. Protetiko is an open cloud-based system that can be integrated towards other systems that the clinics use. The platform also offers an analytics suite for monitoring and streamlining the business. Through this collaboration platform, Protetiko offers clinics, dental care enterprises and dental labs a digital service that can support them in their efforts to offer the best possible dental care for their patients. With Protetiko you can get all in order.
→ Website: https://protetiko.com/
→ Video: https://youtu.be/pCBBFncj2F8
Qlucore
Qlucore develops and markets bioinformatics data analysis software for research and precision diagnostics. Qlucore started with the mission to make it easy for researchers to analyse the huge amounts of complex data generated by innovations in the fields of genetics and proteomics. Qlucore is now also addressing a new and growing area in cancer diagnostics and is developing Qlucore Diagnostics, a medical device software (CE mark), for RNA-seq based cancer type classification to be used in a diagnostic setting. RNA can be used to measure how active genes are and are a quickly emerging standard method to measure so-called gene fusions and gene activity levels in cancer. Classification is when you determine to which of the pre-defined groups, a specific patient belongs to.
→ Website: https://qlucore.com/
→ Video: https://youtu.be/2xwUA7DwbWg
Quuppa
Quuppa is the leading provider of Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS). Location-based services enable a wide range of benefits and use cases for the healthcare sector such as staff and patient tracking, hand hygiene compliance, medical equipment tracking, asset management, workflow and crash cart inventory management, infection prevention and contact tracing. Accurate indoor location data combined with dynamic business rules, workflow and reporting engines enable healthcare organisations to customise, monitor and improve their internal workflows and processes. Our solution partners TietoEvry (Empathic Building) from the Nordics and Medisys Innovation in Singapore are both developing and providing healthcare and smart building solutions.
→ Website: https://quuppa.com/
Risk Medical Solutions
Risk Medical Solutions designed the clinically validated RetinaRisk algorithm, which calculates the individualised risk of vision impairment and blindness for people living with diabetes, based on their risk profile. The RetinaRisk app empowers diabetic patients to monitor their risk and motivates towards enhanced diabetes care by demonstrating how improvement in modifiable risk factors (HbA1c and blood pressure) can lower the risk of vision loss and expensive interventions. The RetinaRisk API solution offers stratification for personalised diabetes-care and streamlined eye-screening programs resulting in enhanced clinical safety, reduced frequency of unnecessary medical appointments by 40-60% and liberating valuable time to be used on high-risk patients without minimising the clinical safety of low risk patients.
→ Website: https://www.retinarisk.com/
Secapp
Secapp is a critical communication and alerting Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform built especially to cope with emergencies and disasters. It helps to broadcast mass notifications, alert individuals and teams, collect and share critical data in addition to providing a platform where data remains secure. Secapp can help to save lives in times of crisis.
→ Website: https://www.secapp.fi/
→ Video: https://youtu.be/IkqD5I-QV-o
VAR Healthcare
VAR Healthcare provides up-to-date and evidence-based nursing procedures, knowledge summaries, and decision support. VAR is developed and maintained in collaboration with professionals from hospitals, education, and municipality health care, with 20 years of validation and use. A responsive design enables easy access wherever you are and whenever you need it, on PCs, tablets and smartphones. The technology in VAR supports best clinical practice in making rapid and qualified decisions and enables better documentation of care resulting in better patient outcomes. Our platform is designed for advanced integrations with, amongst others, electronic healthcare records, quality management systems, or learning platforms.
The theoretical, systematic and pedagogical foundations in VAR enable evidence-based practice and contribute to better functioning teams with decision-making competencies, life-long learning and staff resilience. VAR offers a single system for the entire chain of healthcare and ensures efficiency, quality and continuity of care. VAR is owned by the largest publishing houses in the Nordics.
→ Website: http://www.varhealthcare.com/
→ Video: https://youtu.be/t14OhjEKeOE
Vetrospace
VetroHealth’s tailored healthcare pods are equipped with photon disinfection lighting and photocatalytic nano-coating, meaning safe interiors without viruses or bacteria. Our smart clean air ventilation removes up to 99,9% of impurities from the air entering the space. Positive air pressure ensures that all airflow entering the space goes through the double filtration system, even if the door is open. Optionally, pressure can be negative and exiting air filter. If needed, filtration can be implemented at both air entry and exit points. VetroHealth pods offer market-leading soundproofing levels, so even the most confidential discussion can be held within our pods without compromising patient privacy. Enjoy our patented technology which provides you with the world’s safest place to recover or work.
→ Website: https://vetrospace.com/
→ Video: https://youtu.be/tyugHdcJmJI
ZignSec
ZignSec is an identity service platform with the mission to simplify for companies to verify their customers online. We offer secure and user-friendly KYC solutions by collecting all leading digital verification methods globally under one platform. With only one API connection you will have access to all of our services, which provides you with an automated flow in your customer verification and onboarding process. ZignSec optimises and streamlines your global digitalisation of customer onboarding by identifying, verifying and authenticate your customers online through an AI-powered fraud detection technology, automating the process to identify customers digitally in real-time with a friendly user experience for your customers, while complying with KYC and AML regulations.
→ Website: https://www.zignsec.com/
For Investors & Venture Capitals
Interested to attend our virtual ‘Investor Matchmaking Event’ and hear the 18 selected Nordic Health companies 5-min pitch? Sign up below!
Date: 21 September 2020 (Monday)
Time: 4:30pm - 6:30pm (Singapore Time)