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Foreword Wim Dries
What we do
For students
For start-ups
For care professionals
Health RampUp
Two cohorts in 2019
Coaching day in the spotlight
Activities
02
03-08
03-04
05-06
07-08
09-10
09
10
In the spotlight
Trade fairs
BHIC team
BlueHealth Innovation Fund
Financials
Partners
11-20
12-16
17-20
21
22-27
28
29-30
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׉EZFOREWORD
“I
wish you good health”. We say this to
each other way too easily at the beginning
of each year, without really thinking
about the impact of these words.
It’s only in times like these we reflect
upon it a bit more. It felt right to start
at the beginning of our look-back at
2019, even though it’s not New Years
day, to wish you all good health.
2019 was a great year for BlueHealth
Innovation Center, packed with activities
with satisfied participants, interesting
new projects and start-ups, new
partnerships and a further structural
pillar with the opening of our new
office in Ghent. All of this, based on
solid financials.
We continue to build upon our ecosystem
with – besides the new Ghent
based partners – also a new industry
player that is joining the ranks, Roche
Diagnostics. Also with the care sector
itself, we continue to strengthen the relationships
to bring relevant solutions
by start-ups that are coached by the
BHIC-team. As such, we were able to
welcome Klina General Hospital as well
as In4Care/BC10.
All signals we’re on the right track to
continuously support the digitalisation
of the care system in Flanders, and to
collaboratively continue to work on the
future of healthcare and healthcare of
the future.
But first, let me wish you good health!
With innovative regards,
Wim Dries,
President of the Board of BHIC vzw
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WE DO
FOR STUDENTS
“We helpen je bij de eerste stappen
naar ondernemerschap.”
entrepreneurship.”
e help you with your first steps in
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In May 2019 we were the proud co-organiser of a hackathon at T2- campus in Genk. During 24h students and professionals
worked on new business models for the healthcare sector, education and sharing economy. The winning team received
€1000 for their application named “Vera”, an AR-app for rehabilitation.
04
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WE DO
FOR START-UPS
“Do you have an innovative HealthTech idea?
We are happy to help!”
05
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Specifically for start-ups and scale-ups we organise Start-up Essential Series. A series of workshops with a broad variety of
topics, taught by experts from our partner network. These workshops are organised in our three locations and are free of
charge for all Healthcare innovators. Some topics covered: ModelH, Agile Thinking, User Centered Testing, Start-up valuation,
Pitch training, Fiscal benefits, GDPR in Healthcare...
Start-Up valuation with Elise Carton at De Krook, Ghent.
Lean pricing with Tom Braekeleirs at C-mine Crib, Genk.
Let’s express your value with Catie Young
at StartupVillage, Antwerp.
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WE DO
FOR CARE PROFFESSIONALS
“We help the Healthcare sector to innovate
from the inside.”
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How hospitals and care organisations deal with digitalization?
We offer inspirational workshops – Digial Spark- for teams who want to innovate within their organisation.
Employees from Familiehulp working on digitalization within their organisation.
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RAMPUP
Health RampUp is the showpiece of BHIC, an intensive and selective bootcamp program for
HealthTech start-ups. In 4 months we prepare the start-ups together with experienced entrepreneurs
and domain experts, in raising their first investment capital. In 2020 the program
will run over a period of 6 months.
In 2019, two new cohorts succesfully graduated:
Risk Management App
Facilify
Meet our start-ups
from cohort V.
What is Health RampUp?
Find out more about the
program and the coaches.
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One part of Health RampUp is the coaching day. All participants get the chance during a
whole day to finetune their idea together with experienced coaches from different domains,
collect feedback and ask questions. A very valuable day in this program.
Besides business models, pricing strategies
and marketing plans there is also time for
leisure.
The participants of cohort VI together with mentor Jeroen De Backer, CEO and
founder into.care. Jeroen shares his start-up experiences with the team.
10
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TOTAL:
64
activities
1.809 participants
ACTIVITY TYPE
INSPIRATIONAL SESSIONS
PARTICIPANTS
BUSINESS TRAININGS
PARTICIPANTS
IDEATION SESSIONS (innovation camps and hackathons)
PARTICIPANTS
number
17
1.131
26
308
21
370
OVERVIEW OF ACTIVITIES IN 2019
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INSPIRATIONAL EVENINGS WITH DIRK DE WACHTER AND
ANN SIMONS ABOUT RESILIENCE AND HAPPINESS
New year’s event at Thor Central Genk on 23 January with 260 attendees.
We strive for success and happiness every day, but are we
putting too much pressure on ourselves? Dirk De Wachter
and Ann Simons gave their uncensored and unique view of
the world and this was appreciated by many. They addressed
a wide audience with the themes of happiness and resilience.
We took home a lot of tips.
Inspiration evening at BluePoint Antwerp on 25 April with 200 attendees.
Dirk De Wachter advised us to connect more with each other and to
cuddle a lot. We immediately followed his advice during the network drinks
afterwards.
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On 7 May 2019, our third hub in Flanders was officially opened. Mathias De Clercq, mayor of the city of Ghent kicked off the
evening and then Rik Vera of Nexxworks travelled with us to tomorrow’s digital care system where the patient is always put
at the center. A vibrant evening in our new base at De Krook. We were a proud team.
“What we have to abandon,
is data paranoia. If our data
is misused, it is us who close
the door ”.
-Rik Vera
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How can we use extended reality to
improve healthcare? On December 18
we dove into the world of virtual, augmented
and mixed reality. An expert
panel made it clear that we are only at
the beginning and that there are and
will be many interesting applications in
healthcare.
During the network reception, attendees
could experience the possibilities
of a Hololens and the VR application
of Oncomfort: a digital anesthetic system
that reduces pain and anxiety of
patients in operating theaters.
A great event to conclude 2019 with.
From left to right: Tom Braekeleirs, BHIC director / Edouard
Auvinet, Researcher at UGent and IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON /
Mario Huyghe, CEO Oncomfort / Dr. Tom Lootens, ORTHOPEDIC
SPECIALIST AT AZ MARIA MIDDELARES / Bert Hoorne, HEALTHCARE
INDUSTRY TECHNOLOGY STRATEGIST AT MICROSOFT
Tom moderates a panel discussion where the different perspectives – researcher, start-up, physician, and
industry – are discussed.
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Live to a 100! It was a great evening in Thor
Central in Genk. Marcel Vanthilt, Griet Vander
Velpen, medical director at ZOL, and
Wouter Beke, Flemish Minister for Welfare,
Public Health, Family and Poverty Reduction,
testified to more than 250 attendees how to
live a long and healthy life.
There is no formula for success, but mental
health and close social contacts play a crucial
role in longevity. With our event sponsors
Happy Aging, BioVille, in4care, MHU, and ING
we made it into a successful evening.
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In 2019, we organized the third edition of our speed date. This matchmaking
event has established itself in our programme as an event many people look
forward to. We bring together start-ups and partners in the BHIC ecosystem on
one location for one afternoon. It does not happen often that you get to meet the
ICT Manager of Zorgbedrijf Antwerpen, the Project Manager Digital Innovation of
City of Antwerp and the General Manager of Roche Diagnostics on the same day.
Starters can test ideas, ask for feedback and make appointments.
Afterwards they met informally during the BBQ on the lovely square at StartupVillage
in Antwerp. THANK YOU to our vibrant ecosystem.
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EXHIBITION
PARTICIPATION IN 2019
IN4CARE INSPIRE HEALTHCARE EVENT
THE 5TH CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL HEALTH
ICT4CARE
ANTWERP STARTUP FAIR
IN4CARE INSPIRE
HEALTHCARE EVENT
During Inspire Healthcare, together with imec.istart, we organised an Inspiration Stage
on patient centricity, with strong testimonials from Karlien Hollanders, experience expert,
Hannah Snoeck, AZ Klina, Erik Janssen, UCB en Lola Bladt, Minze Health.
Proud organizer and partners on stage at Inspire Healthcare.
From left to right: Nico De Fauw (director in4care), Tom Braekeleirs (director
BHIC), Antoine D‘Hollander (Venture Acceleration Manager imec.istart) and
Vincent Van Malderen (Managing Director Poolstok))
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Large presence of our start-ups at
ICT4care in Affligem. A wide range of
ICT solutions for the healthcare sector
could be found at a single location.
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“Leading Digital
Health together”.
Vincent Meurrens from Epcon
wins the innovation pitch during
The 5th Conference.
This pitch event was organised
by BHIC, together with imec.
istart and Business in Antwerp.
© Photography The 5th Conference: MM Content
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We are social:
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TEAM
Tom Braekeleirs
Director
+32 477 72 92 58
tom@bhic.care
GET TO KNOW OUR TEAM
Frederik Horemans
Regional Manager
Genk
+32 479 76 32 51
frederik@bhic.care
Kim Luyckx
Regional Manager
Antwerpen
+32 475 26 37 83
kim@bhic.care
Ilse Robberechts
Communications
& Office Manager
+32 478 33 86 81
ilse@bhic.care
Maarten Van Gorp
Regional Manager
Ghent
+32 499 77 77 88
maarten@bhic.care
At the end of 2019, Margot Hermans said goodbye to the BHIC team after 3 years. From 2020 onwards, Kim Luyckx will be
on board as the new Antwerp regional manager. During the first four months in 2020, Dovilė Petrauskaitė strengthened
our team as junior consultant from UCLL.
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From left to right: Dovilė, Tom, Frederik, Kim, Ilse and Maarten.
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BHIF
Three times a year, imec.istart calls for start-ups that are building innovative ICT solutions for practical applications for the
broad healthcare sector. Candidates are beyond the idea phase and will be coached, financially supported and advised in
their growth, to become autonomous companies that are ready for international scaling. And thanks to the BlueHealth
Innovation Fund, the 50k EUR imec.istart investment can be doubled. The members of the fund are UCB, UZA, The Cofoundry
and BC10 (subsidiary of in4care).
IN 2019 THESE START-UPS WERE SELECTED
FOR THE BLUEHEALTH INNOVATION FUND:
CREATIVE THERAPY
PROTEOFORMIX
ASYLIA DIAGNOSTICS
MOONBIRD
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CREATIVE THERAPY
Creative Therapy develops interactive
tools for
first product ‘Matti’ is an interactive mat
that motivates patients through gamification,
while giving physiotherapists
more insights into their patients’ progress
during therapy.
rehabilitation therapy. Their
“
BHIC and imec.istart have given us the tools to
really understand all our stakeholders.
They are still helping us to achieve our goals.
Arno Penders
co-founder & CEO Creative Therapy
“
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Stefanie and Michaël Broes, founders
of a young tech company from Keerbergen,
launched ‘Moonbird’, a device
that calculates your personal breathing
rhythm and helps you find a soothing
breathing flow.
“
Via imec.istart and BHIF,
we receive daily support
in all aspects of starting
up and rolling out our
activities.
“
Stefanie Broes
co-founder Moonbird
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Asylia Diagnostics is strongly committed
to immunotherapy, by detecting
‘hyperprogression’ in cancer patients
who are
receiving
immunotherapy
and suffering from rapid growth of the
cancer.
“
We participated in the call from the
BlueHealth Innovation Fund to expand
our network. They put us in contact
with UZA to do clinical research.
“
Andrey Khmelevskiy
CEO & founder Asylia Diagnostics
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The ProteoFormiX team identifies innovative
biomarkers to detect diseases
that are difficult to diagnose more
efficiently. These biomarkers can also
be used in the development of new
medicines.
“
The stamp of approval we received
from BlueHealth Innovation and
imec is an important lever in
attracting new collaborations.
“
Prof. dr. Peter Verhaert
founder ProteoFormiX
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SUCCESS STORY
FIRST PORTFOLIO COMPANY
FROM THE BLUEHEALTH INNOVATION FUND WAS ACQUIRED
NephroFlow digitizes everything that has to do with kidney dialysis. In 2013, NephroFlow (then called Typework) participated
in Health RampUp, after which they were selected for the BlueHealth Innovation Fund and imec.istart. At the end
of 2019, NephroFlow was acquired by Nipro, one of the world’s largest suppliers of medical equipment to dialysis centres.
NephroFlow’s office will remain in Bruges and the team will stay on board. From 2020 onwards, the three founders will fully
focus on internationalisation.
“
The acquisition is a good example of a structural
cooperation between an established company and
a young tech company.
“
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ACADEMIC &
CARE ORGANIZATIONS
19%
GOVERNMENT
24%
PROJECT
8%
FINANCIALS
INDUSTRY
49%
EXPENSES
ACTIVITIES
27%
OPERATIONS
10%
RENT
8%
STAFF
55%
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“
NEW
PARTNERSHIPS FOR
BHIC IN 2019:
ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS AND KLINA GENERAL HOSPITAL
BECOME NEW STRUCTURAL PARTNERS OF BHIC
ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS
During The 5th Conference on Digital Health, Roche Diagnostics Belgium announced a partnership with both BlueHealth
Innovation Center as well as imec.istart.
AZ KLINA
Stronger together for more entrepreneurship
and innovation!
“
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IN4CARE
On January 22, 2020, the newyear’s event of In4Care took
place in Aalst. During this event, In4Care announced a partnership
with both BHIC and imec.istart. Besides this partnership,
also BC10 BV, the daughter company of In4Care vzw,
became a member of the BlueHealth Innovation Fund.
Thanks to our partners:
GOVERNMENT
CARE AND ACADEMIC
INSTITUTES
INDUSTRY
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C-mine 12,
3600 Genk
BHIC Antwerp
Lange Gasthuisstraat 29 - 31,
2000 Antwerp
+32 89 201 735
genk@bhic.care
+32 475 26 37 83
antwerpen@bhic.care
BHIC Ghent
M. Makebaplein 1,
9000 Ghent
+32 9 248 55 37
gent@bhic.care
2019
Graphic design: www.skape.be
Photography and video’s: www.movito.be
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