2019 in Health Tech

Last year was a success for Tehnopol’s health tech sector. Several portfolio customers had remarkable results by expanding their products or performing outside Estonia. In addition, there were some exciting changes to our team resulting in new and intriguing ideas for this year. Here is a closer look at the notable achievements of the health tech sector in 2019.

What happened in the health tech sector?

·         The annual health tech event Kärajad took place, at which the community discussed how to solve the issues related to the adoption of artificial intelligence.

·         We conducted a panel talk on the subject of health at the Latitude59 conference.

·         We involved project funding from EAS’s development programme for clusters to move forward with product development and export activities with the Connected Health cluster.

·         We made preparations to carry out an international oncology project.

·         The ProVaHealth project gave two Estonian companies a chance to test their products at an international livinglab as part of the Interreg project.

Exciting changes within our team

Oliver Loit was selected as the new HealthTech and Connected Health Cluster Innovation Manager and Liis Lohur joined our team as a Project Manager.

 Last year, Tehnopol’s team gained a new Health Project Manager Katrin Senkevitš.

 Tehnopol wishes you every success in your endeavours!

Success stories from 2019

·         Member of the Connected Health cluster Diagnostic Match successfully applied for the project AI4Diag. The project supports the research of the potential of artificial intelligence and machine learning to make companies more competitive globally. Cooperation will begin this year.

·         2019 was a successful year for Grete Kikas, founder of Diagnostic Match. She took to the stage at the health event ‘HIMSS and Health 2.0’ in Finland to introduce her product and was put on the Forbes 30 under 30 list.

·         Wellness Orbit took its service to New Zealand to provide world-class online trainings on mental health issues.

This year we will continue to find export opportunities, look for advice and contacts, offer services as well as opportunities for testing and conducting pilot projects in the Tehnopol business campus or the city of Tallinn, organise community meetings and events, find funding and innovation options and establish relations with universities and internationally with other science parks, clusters and universities for you.