FRENCH HEALTHCARE BOOSTER

Lots of Business Opportunities due to current challenges

You are about to optimize patient journeys and scale your healthtech innovation? You want shape future-ready hospitals, make better use of connected care, or improve interoperability with your innovation? You are changing the way to use Artificial Intelligence in healthcare? There could be a high need for your innovation in the German market!

Digital Therapeutics –Leverage 3 years of experience with the DiGA pathway

• Learn, how demand and supply develop. Get first-hand market insights
• Get inspired by evolving sales strategies in this new market of DTX: First cooperations with Pharma in Marketing and Sales
• Decide on DiGA scaling and learn from multi-DiGA companies and EU-DiGA approaches (e. g. in Austria, Belgium, France)
• Foster on changed DiGA legislation: Expansion to Medical Devices Risk Class IIb and III, to digital tools for pregnancy and new options to integrate teleconsultation

AI in Healthcare, Large Language Modells (LLM) 

• Due to high bureaucratic burden, there is need for streamlined administration in healthcare services, for better clinical workflows and decisions in order to facilitate patients triage and improve patient care and communication

Out-patient sectors – physician's practises

• Growing impact of telemedicine and remote monitoring services
• New integrated healthcare and health services models (e. g. HÄPPI) and high demand to delegate health services to Nurses und Physician Assistants

Understand the German healthcare system and align your Business Models

Financing 

• Grasp financing and reimbursement of healthcare services in Germany 
• Understand how the outpatient and inpatient sectors are working 
• Get acquainted to the pricing policies of statutory health insurances, the pricing of pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and digital health applications (e.g. DiGAs) 
• Understand different Market entry options besides the classic DiGA fast track (SGB V §140a, §68b).

Legal landscape

• Hospital Future Act to expand digital infrastructure (KHZG): Huge investment program to booster digital infrastructure 4,3 Mrd €.
• Act to accelerate the digitalization of the healthcare system (DigiG): 1. Launch of Opt-out Digital Patient record for all statutory insured patients ePA as central health data hub. 2. Adaptation of DiGA fast track: Open for Medical Devices with higher Risk Classes 2. No longer legally restricted telemedical health services
• Health Data Utilization Act (GDNG): Use health data in health services research, improve access for industry research programs

Meet Healthcare Shapers at one of the following events, that are part of the French Healthcare Booster Germany 2024 initiative

• Bootcamp and kick-off of the French Healthcare Booster Germany 2024, 21.02.2024, Düsseldorf
• French Healthcare Booster Germany 2024: Unchain cross-country synergies, 08.04.2024 French embassy Berlin
• DMEA Berlin, 9.-11.04.2024: With more than 700 exhibitors and over 16,000 participants, DMEA is Europe's leading event for digital health
• Bits & Pretzels Healthtech, 5.-7.06.2024, Munich.
• Health insurance Hack & Con, 3.-5.09.2024, Leipzig
• Big Bang Health, 11.-12.09.2024, Berlin. Germany´s largest B2B event for SMEs and health professionals. Over 5.000 guests

Or just get connected and give us a call

Strong in both markets: Close collaboration of our German and French Chapter enables us to foster cross-country insights and unchain business synergies for your endeavors

• Healthcare Shapers know the German Market by heart and through years of practical experience
• Healthcare Shapers will put you in touch with decision makers in Pharma, Medtech, Biotech, Digital health 
• Healthcare Shapers can connect you with key opinion leaders, e.g. in research institutions, medical associations, with healthcare professionals, payers, or patients advocats
• Healthcare Shapers will help you to align your needs with those of your German business partners

SPECIALIZED

Our experts cover all facets of healthcare. From doctors, clinics, pharmacies, and nursing care to medical technology, pharmaceutical technology and biotechnology, to healthcare providers, health IT, health insurance companies and ministries. Of course, we also work with patient organizations. Healthcare Shapers are recognized experts in their field; they have many years of professional experience and an excellent reputation.

EXPERIENCED

Only those who have qualified themselves professionally and personally in a multi-stage selection process can become partners in the network. Professionalism and mutual trust form the basis of our collaboration. Our shared values include independence, honesty, openness to new ideas, as well as respect, team spirit and reliability.

PRAGMATIC

People trust us because we get to the point. We are not a company with an expensive overhead structure, but rather a network of independent experts. Like our clients, we think and act as entrepreneurs. That’s how we find the form of collaboration that creates the most value for all parties involved, e.g., think tanks, workshops, events or projects.

QUICK

Clients value us because we find the right experts swiftly. Given our many years of individual experience and our reputation, we can usually access seasoned specialists within a few hours. And, incidentally, that saves the lengthy and expensive detours often typical of large consulting firms.