Health-tech ecosystems of developing countries

Hello Ivana! I must say your project submission has huge potential. I think you need to tell your story in a more personalized manner - how does it relate to you and what made you to conceptualize the idea of starting the project. On the other hand, you can make your application strong by including the associated problems absence of health tech lab has caused in these countries of your target. What has been the solution before now, and what new/value is your project bringing. Installing your solutions in different developing countries will require huge financial outlay. How do you plan on getting ahead of the curve? What is your sustainability strategy? You are doing well. Keep going

This is definitely something on spot. The gap between the two parts of Europe is huge in this sense. We also identified this and it is - however a small part and on the sideline - in our focus at tissu.ee specifically in the field of tissues. My question is how do you intend to bring together this community? Meaning besides the events do you have an online platform for this purpose?

Health is a challenge in most developing countries and innovation in this space and the way it helps deliver health services to the people is most welcome

Greetings and best wishes for your submission!!
Regarding GOALS no 02." To interconnect Them "- Can you please enlighten more?
You are planning to Connect What ?
Countries?
Practices ?
do you think The Everchanging Complex Matrix of Healthcare should adopt sort of
One Size Fits All ??

Regarding COVID-19 Impact Its quite Superficial statement i guess (Dont Get Me wrong Please).
SOLIDARITY , OPERATION WRAPSEED are the topline mega initiatives running through the globe and till now the only constraint recurrently hindering COVID-19 triumph is
The UNIQUENESS in Research Findings amidst of the DUO pandemics one is CoV another is Infodemic ...e.g. Hydroxychloroquine

Hi Ivana, the success you've achieved so far with HTL is excellent! Can you please expand on the link between your problem and solution? In terms of the problem, you write that the health tech community is facing a "lack of funding"; in terms of the solution, you are proposing gathering the community, running hackathons, acceleration, and creating a global network. The link between your problem/solutions statements isn't clear. Are you assuming that by creating such a network that the necessary funding will be found within it? Clarification on how the hackathons/acceleration/network will solve the funding problem would be great to hear.

Great step. indeed the gap is huge between developed and developing countries. also consider planning on how you will budget for the massive you have right there ,the most important points being on how you generate revenue for operational costs. will you seek external investment fund or your team has what it takes to get the project going interms of resources. the idea is wonderful that i feel the only challenge for you will be finances .work on that area, all the best

How much growth potential does your idea offer?

Dear Ivana,
Connecting local companies focused on health sector solutions sounds like a great idea.
Additionally, to the questions already addressed by the community, I would like to clarify what is the legal form of your organization and where do you get the funding for operational purposes from? Since you want to expand regionally and internationally as well as run an online platform, my curiosity is also related to the sustainability of your initiative and its potential to reach the exponential growth.
Moreover, I would like to ask if you already have a clear strategy/approach on the expansion of your network globally? Who are the stakeholder groups that you’re targeting to build your network? Maybe you have already performed a research of the ecosystem of several countries. In case we talk about ecosystems connecting with each other you’ll need a clear understanding of each country stakeholders and be able to get them working together on your scope.
I wish you success in all your future endeavors.

Hello
I have a question how is this directly be linked to a digital solution to help sustainable practices ?

I believe this is an excellent initiative, and I am looking forward to seeing it scale up to the International health ecosystem.

Hi Ivana, 

It is great to see how much Health Tech Lab has achieved since 2018 within the Serbian health-tech ecosystem and globally. From the references you have listed, your narrative and progress is clear: HTL team has built impact and partnerships with startups, corporates and institutions in the healthcare domain and the field of innovation, as well as think-tanks and universities. 

I believe that for the next phase of ITU Innovation Challenge, as well as for the progress of your organization it would matter that you define closely the goals you listed: to which regions and developing countries you would like to expand or share your expertise? What is one particular challenge that you and your partners want to solve? Maybe it is focusing projects to a certain healthcare issue or niche, maybe it is about providing funding for startups, etc. 

The healthcare industry is quite regulated and the patients, who are at the core of your impact, may face different outcomes in treatment depending on where they live. Thus, you as HTL and your partners may like to think about solutions that transcend these nation-specific regulations and provide universal standards of good governance in healthcare and best-healthcare practices. 

The good place to start is certainly what you wrote in the proposal above, you want to create communities that can ''tackle the local problems and create local solutions with global potential.'' The pandemic taught us that we need to exchange know-how on applicable healthcare solutions that can be transferred to diverse markets with velocity and safety, while bearing in mind local contexts.    

It's great to see that the Serbian health-tech ecosystem is rapidly growing from year to year. The impact and changes you have created in Serbia since your establishment is amazing and I am sure that you will scale up even more in the future. One of the best examples of your importance and agility is your extremely fast response and organisation of different covid-19 related initiatives in the past months. I wish you good luck in your future work!

Greetings Ivana, Building an impact health-tech ecosystem in Serbia is a huge necessity , probably like us in the Caribbean. These past few years have become iconic for medicine if we talk about new directions, Health Tech innovations, and digital technologies implementation. Healthcare blurs boundaries, exploiting growing opportunities for interaction with all disciplines that can give it a qualitative leap in development
What Problems Can Health Tech Innovations Solve In The Next Five Years?

Hello Ivana,

Great step to identify this topic at such times in the global pandemic
Kindly elaborate the measures being taken to ensure the interconnection of the project with the cities or countries.
Kindly elaborate if the project stands for a hub Hackathon that encourages developers to have a sustainable solution and how will the health tech lab assist in their growth?

All the best in the project keep on keeping on.
Best Regards.

Hi Ivana, how responsive are the existing medical establishment in contributing to your idea? One of the challenges in developing countries like mine is that the established institutions are sometimes too skeptic to introduction new technologies especially from small startups like mine. Do you face similar skepticism from established institutions? How do you overcome these challenges?

very interesting Ivana! I may have a couple of connections here in Kenya that could be interesting. just wondering what your business model is

I like your category of interest, do well to improve your idea.