The 10 Most Innovative Digital Healthcare Solution Providers 2018

• healthbank innovation AG as the platform manager –
responsible for the development of services, apps,
integration of partners, and data processing on behalf of
the user.
About the Company
This Switzerland based firm was founded when an
international team of 28 academics, entrepreneurs and
experts of the healthcare industry came together with the
intent to give back the control of personal health data into
the hands of its rightful owners i.e. the people. The
company’s vision is to empower people across the globe to
exchange their health data, on their uniquely neutral and
independent platform.
Uniqueness of healthbank is its policy of ‘one-person-onevote’
which develops a greater sense of trust among all its
stakeholders and encourages greater participation. This
policy is one of the prime factors behind healthbank’s
stupendous success. When it comes to health data, they put
people at the center of every maneuver.
Their ultimate aim is to bring together market players and
help them to participate in an open eco-system connected to
the healthcare market. They believe that open ecosystems
are more efficient than closed ones. Therefore, health
service providers benefit from joining healthbank and will
be able to integrate their service with customer data and
other service providers to more comprehensive solutions.
Benefits of its Eco-system
Technological Security: Through a full-fledged end-to-end
encryption as well as a high-security software architecture
concept, healthbank provides the right ecosystem
partnership to safely manage health data for ecosystem
partners that rather want to focus on their first-class services
and products than on data back ends.
Full Independence: healthbank provides a truly open and
neutral ecosystem that comes with long-term stability as
well as competition on the platform itself.
Real World Patient Information: As soon as the users give
their consent, the app service provider can integrate dozens
of other data sources to enhance their own services through
big data, artificial intelligence or machine learning
algorithms.
Full GDPR compliance: Due to its detailed, informed and
dynamic consent management, which puts the user in the
middle of the decision process to connect, store and share
personal data; healthbank helps achieving full GDPR
compliance for their application partners from the
ecosystem.
Future Endeavors
The company will soon follow a much more robust
architectural approach and will raise its data security to the
utmost level through end-to-end encryption The range of
functions for users will also get expanded. The health
platforms get refurbished to integrate further partners and
applications from the health sector quickly, efficiently and
more securely. With the new software architecture and the
implemented security mechanisms, healthbank is ready to
connect further partners and applications with a healthbank
account.
• Their two award-winning apps “CatchMyPain” and
“PainCompanion” will soon be integrated into the
healthbank. Users suffering from severe or chronic pain
can benefit from the long-term pain documentation in the
future and continue to share their experiences and
thoughts.
healthbank works closely with the Swiss app developer
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“Rehaptix”. Rehaptix monitors the rehabilitation of
patients with motor disabilities due to a neurological
injury such as stroke, multiple sclerosis or Parkinson’s
disease. All data generated in the app is securely stored in
the healthbank and can also be passed on to other people.
healthbank plans to integrate fitness trackers into the
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healthbank in the near future. With this service users can
connect their fitness tracker with the healthbank. And if a
user changes the tracker, this will no longer be a problem
in the future - the data and the connection to the
healthbank will remain intact.
The trailblazer behind its Success
Reto Schegg, Chief Executive Officer, has proficiency in
eHealth projects. He was involved in many of the big
eHealth initiatives in Europe in recent years. Holding
master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering, Business
Administration, and Business Law, he has been responsible
for international health tech business lines and sales teams.
Reto drives the idea of encouraging citizens to make better
decisions about their own health in order to receive the best
possible care.
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