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��ֳ�’s Incubator Program 2023 – A Look Through Our Innovative Digital Health Startups

Vanco Vlastimil (��ֳ� S.A.) — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 14:06:12 +0000

��ֳ�’s Incubator Program 2023 – A Look Through Our Innovative Digital Health Startups

Marie-Noel Achkar, Digital Care Transformation

Vanco Vlastimi… Thu 09/11/2023 - 15:06

We are excited to share our final cohort of startups – Albus Health, Nevaro, Wisdo Health, NeuroHelp, and thymia – that have joined the ��ֳ� Digital Health Incubator Program for 2023. Each startup brings forward innovative solutions that have the potential to revolutionize the digital health landscape and bring much-needed solutions to people living with severe diseases, faster.

About The Incubator Program: A Recap

Now in its second cohort, the ��ֳ� Incubator is a 12-week, non-equity program designed for startups at any stage. Our mission is to co-create and test transformative digital health solutions for people living with severe diseases. Together with our startups, we formulate key hypotheses, set KPIs, metrics for success, and conduct tests to validate their core ideas and accelerate their time to market.

Introducing the Startups:

Albus Health
Location: Oxford, UK
About: Established in 2017, Albus Health offers a contactless multi-sensor solution for nocturnal health monitoring- in the form of a table-top, contactless device to collect data, combined with software capabilities to track and analyse various physiological, environmental metrics in order to provide a comprehensive overview of the patient's night-time health.

Nevaro
Location: Lisboa, Portugal
About: Founded in 2018, Nevaro offers a mobile app-based solution to improve mental well-being. Using gaming and physiological computing, their app helps improve mental well-being, avoid burnout, self-monitor for symptoms of illness, as well as complement psychotherapy treatments.

Wisdo Health
Location: New York City
About: Founded in 2018, Wisdo Health has crafted a social health platform that combats loneliness and enhances mental health. Their AI-powered peer support communities cater to those facing life challenges, mental health issues, and chronic conditions.

NeuroHelp
Location: Ramat Gan, Israel
About: NeuroHelp is working on the frontiers of epileptic care with Epiness™, which is a headband integrated with EEG sensors to detect night-time epileptic seizures in children through Machine and Deep Learning techniques.

thymia
Location: London
About: thymia’s digital mental health assessment tool employs AI to analyze biomarkers in video, audio, and behavioral data, providing insights into various mental health conditions.

Interested in learning more?

Keep up to date or learn more about the program at ��ֳ�-DCTx.com. For inquiries about the Program, please contact us at contact@ucb-dctx.com.

Together, let's pioneer the next era of healthcare through Digital Business Transformation.

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��ֳ�'s first Digital Health Incubator Demo Day

Chiara Vona — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 09:07:18 +0000

��ֳ�'s first Digital Health Incubator Demo Day

Thyago Ohana, Digital Care Transformation

Chiara Vona Tue 22/11/2022 - 10:07

On October 28^th, ��ֳ� held its first Digital Health Incubator Startup Pitch Day - an opportunity to highlight the learnings and achievement across the 2022 cohort of the program, as well as to see great examples of the entrepreneurship we support in order to create leading healthcare innovation.

Our day started with the Head of the DCTx Incubator Strategy, Thyago Ohana addressing how the incubator began by thinking outside of the status quo. The next generation of innovators within the healthcare technology ecosystem accepts that notion, with incubators as a key form of collaboration to drive new ways of thinking to create value for people living with severe diseases now and in the future.

Pitches were made by each of the incubated ventures, as they outlined key friction points, their unique solution and ambitions for the future.

VRx Medical, represented by Co-Founder, Paul Lafferty, deploys AR to solve chronic pain issues and increase adherence related to arthritis. The company’s vision, when working with ��ֳ�, is to provide accessible and drug-free pain relief to arthritis sufferers.

Epihunter, pitched by Founder & CEO, Tim Buckinx, enables people with brain disorders "to participate more fully in society". The company wants people to be able to plan their lives and avoid emergency visits with seizure prediction and forecasting. Tim described that one challenge of the incubator was how many different needs could be addressed with Epihunter's technology, so they needed to thoughtfully consider what problems they would prioritize.

Peak Profiling’s technology helps detect disease using the human voice. Founding partners Julia Volkening & Claudio Hasler explained that “voice can successfully serve as a biomarker”. Quantitative musicology is used to analyse many aspects of a human voice, with nine algorithms for diseases already created and a further 26 in the pipeline.

Xsensio, pitched by Founder & CEO Esmeralda Megally, has a unique ‘Lab on Skin’ wearable biosensing device that can detect minute changes in interstitial fluid, to gather real-time health data. This in turn enables doctors to be more reactive and reduce misdiagnosis of autoimmune diseases which can lead to severe illness. The team are driven to commercialising partnerships with doctors in the future, as well as bringing the tech to patient’s homes.

A jury made up of internal executive Vice Presidents of Immunology and Neurology alongside the ��ֳ� Incubator's leadership team awarded VRx Medical the Jury's Choice award, whilst the Audience’s Choice went to PeakProfiling. Both will get a 'ramp-up' session with ��ֳ� executives and the chance to continue their partnership into the future.

To sum up, Andrew Humphries from The Bakery, ��ֳ�’s Incubator innovation partner, addressed the group and outlined the key valuable output for startups who take part in the incubator collaboration. Andrew spoke to the importance of collaboration to both incremental and breakthrough innovation - something that is critical in the relationship between venture startups and ��ֳ�.

To learn more about ��ֳ�’s Digital Care Transformation Incubator or even submit your startup or idea to the program, visit the website www.ucb-dctx.com.

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DCTx team working hand-in-hand with Epihunter

Vanco Vlastimil (��ֳ� S.A.) — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 06:30:00 +0000

DCTx team working hand-in-hand with Epihunter

Marie-Noel Achkar, Digital Care Transformation

Vanco Vlastimi… Thu 04/08/2022 - 08:30

The Digital Care Transformation (DCTx) team at ��ֳ� is excited to be working with Epihunter in its DCTx Incubator.

Epihunter is a pioneering digital therapeutics company focused on enabling those with brain disorders to participate more fully in society. Their huge step forward towards accessibility for epilepsy-sufferers started with a question from a son to his father - "Dad, you work in digital, can you create a light that turns on when my brain switches off?".

That statement of need led to the business being founded in 2017, with the first device coming along in 2018 to help detect, log and signal silent absence seizures.

Epihunter solutions apply real-time AI to third-party wearable EEG for real-time digital interventions - reducing the conditions’ daily life impact while generating real-world data for better diagnosis, treatment and new therapies.

The company has already created, clinically validated and commercialised a beachhead for absence epilepsy in Europe & Australasia and is now setting up co-development collaborations for a future product pipeline of 13 products in epilepsy and other brain disorders.

Epihunter will work with ��ֳ�’s DCTx team to learn how digital can help create an impactful solution for patients suffering from rare forms of epilepsy and other neurological conditions.

During the program, the venture will identify with the support of real-world partners in the healthcare ecosystem, a sustainable digital health business model to scale while delivering the most benefit to patients and HCPs.

As Epihunter Founder, Tim Buckinx says, “We’re very excited to work hand-in-hand with ��ֳ� experts on current and future offerings for a deep impact on the daily lives of families with epilepsy and their clinical care pathways. The strongly aligned missions of Epihunter and ��ֳ� will come alive in the DCTx Incubator.”

To find out more about our pathway, to apply to be a part of the program and to keep updated on the latest startups taking part of the program, please visit our website on ��ֳ�-DCTx.com - alternatively, you can contact us via email on contact@ucb-dctx.com.

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Capturing real-world data and evidence in clinical trials

Vanco Vlastimil (��ֳ� S.A.) — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 06:00:00 +0000

Capturing real-world data and evidence in clinical trials

Emily Lewis, Digital Care Transformation Neurology

Vanco Vlastimi… Wed 20/07/2022 - 08:00

At ��ֳ�, we see the many benefits of integrating technology in all aspects of our business to amplify the power of scientific innovation and to improve patient care.

In the second ��ֳ� Digital Health Roundtable (June 2022) an expert panel discussed how clinical research, and the data we use within it, can be more reflective of the real-world settings in which patients live, so that providers can better close gaps in care and improve patient outcomes.

The expert speaker panel included: Ying Lu, PhD (Professor of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University), Jeremy Rassen, Sc.D (Co-Founder and President, Aetion, Inc.), Dorothee Bartels, PhD (Global Head of RWE and Digital Sciences, ��ֳ�), Devin Gilliam, Head of Clinical Trials (Datavant).

For decades the best practices of clinical research involved rigidly designed, prospective randomized controlled trials (RCTs). While that remains the case in many scenarios, these kinds of trials collected data under ideal conditions and did not always reflect the routine clinical practice settings they are meant to inform. Over the last decade, as real-world data methodology advances and related regulatory guidance has matured it has allowed us to generate the evidence needed for strategy and decision making within development itself.

The expert panel discuss the need to further develop a common language, standards, structure and process, and global best practices around these new evidence generation frameworks to meet this rapidly advancing world.

Watch the roundtable to find out more: https://youtu.be/tYfym1U1vD4.

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DCTx Incubator - A pathway to innovation driven by purpose

Vanco Vlastimil (��ֳ� S.A.) — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 13:17:58 +0000

DCTx Incubator - A pathway to innovation driven by purpose

Thyago Ohana, Digital Care Transformation Immunology

Vanco Vlastimi… Thu 23/06/2022 - 15:17

Our ��ֳ� Digital Care Transformation (DCTx) team has been working to source the latest innovations from entrepreneurial businesses across the global digital health ecosystem - challenging ourselves to uncover breakthroughs in care provision and delivery. Breakthroughs that can have a major impact in solving some of the biggest challenges in the lives of people living with severe or chronic diseases. The value that we will seek to create puts their wellbeing paramount.

We believe the ventures we are working with currently, as well as those we seek to bring into the program moving forward, can have a real impact on the individual lives of patients and at scale, they have the potential to impact society and our world.

Our ambitions are bold, but we are proud of and enthused by. This is why one of the most important criteria of the businesses we want to partner with has to be ambition. The start-ups currently in the program each have that ambition:

Epihunter solutions apply real-time AI to third-party wearable EEG for real-time digital interventions - reducing the conditions’ daily life impact while generating real-world data for better diagnosis, treatment and new therapies.

The company has already created, clinically validated and commercialised a beachhead for absence epilepsy in Europe & Australasia and is now setting up co-development collaborations for a future product pipeline of 13 products in epilepsy and other brain disorders.

The miniature LAB-ON-SKINTM sensing platform developed by the Xsensio team in Lausanne, Switzerland, allows the detection of small changes in skin biofluids.

A non-intrusive wearable device that can help to detect and predict changes in a number of disease areas could help both clinicians and patients better manage a range of conditions and lead to better outcomes for patients.

VRx Medical is an immersive digital therapeutics company founded in California by Garland Wong and Paul Lafferty. Their mission is to deliver accessible, drug-free, digital wellness through immersive VR technology.

Bringing together virtual and augmented reality to the fingertips of patients, providing a wide range of therapies that can integrate into their lifestyles.

Winterlight Labs, based in Toronto, Canada, has developed a solution to analyse speech and detect subtle changes in speech patterns of patients with many neurological conditions.

Winterlight’s platform analyses both the acoustics and content of speech and language to assess progression or improvement in cognitive health and achieve more detailed measurement of a patient’s response to therapeutic interventions

And finally, PeakProfiling combines voice analytics based on quantitative musicology of sound patterns with Machine Learning methods. Several clinical studies have already demonstrated that this technology can serve as a valid predictor of certain clinical conditions.

Each of these DCTx Incubator participants have the combination of innovation and drive to see it reach a global market.

To find out more about our incubator, apply to be a part of the program and keep updated on the latest start-ups taking part, please visit our website on ucb-digitalcaretransformation.com - alternatively, you can contact us via email on contact@ucb-dctx.com.

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��ֳ� launches digital health roundtable series

Vanco Vlastimil (��ֳ� S.A.) — Mon, 09 May 2022 16:01:47 +0000

��ֳ� launches digital health roundtable series

Emily Lewis, Digital Care Transformation Neurology

Vanco Vlastimi… Mon 09/05/2022 - 18:01

At ��ֳ�, we see the many benefits of integrating technology in all aspects of our business to amplify the power of scientific innovation and to improve patient care.

There are many diverse ways in which technology can be utilized for the benefit of patients, and in March of this year we kicked off a digital health roundtable series to explore some of the key topics.

The first roundtable focused on how we can better leverage patient-generated health data for digital phenotyping and biomarker development in research and development. The expert speaker panel included: Erin Rainaldi, MS (Head of Sensors Data Science, Verily), Jennifer Goldsack, MChem, MA, MBA, OLY (Chief Executive Officer, Digital Medicine Society (DiME)), Lorene Nelson, PhD, MS (Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Stanford University), and Dr. Francesca Rinaldo, MD, PhD (SVP, Clinical Product and Innovation Sharecare).

In previous decades patients have often shared their personal information with healthcare providers through anecdotes, pictures, letters, text messages, emails, and family meetings. These days, patients can generate and potentially share similar data about their behaviors which are indicative of their health through wearables, smart speakers, voice assistants, and domotics like smart thermostats, home appliances, and security cameras.

Many might have heard of the idea of “digital exhaust” or “digital footprint”, which is the idea that we all generate data in our daily lives (whether or not we are aware of it) and this data can provide meaningful information about individuals and their health.

There’s no question that our data says a lot about us. There’s no question that this data has true scientific value. What is in question is the practical application of this process. Many researchers are wondering how to unlock the full potential of these digital datasets.

This discussion explored how we can use sensor data at the intersection of certain clinical features to develop digital biomarkers of disease which can drive decisions around research and development and eventually inform more personalized patient care.

In speaking about the application of digital biomarkers beyond the context of an efficacy endpoint in a clinical trial, Jen Goldsack stated: “What I do think there’s the ability to do is to start to deeply understand not just sickness, but health, using these measures. We can really start to define, out in the wild, what good health looks like and what potential digital phenotypes are that flag you as potentially being at risk or someone who could benefit from early intervention so that we can eventually imagine what good healthcare looks like.”

Watch the roundtable to find out more: click here

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Two more ventures join ��ֳ�’s Digital Care Transformation (DCTx) Incubator

Vanco Vlastimil (��ֳ� S.A.) — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 09:22:34 +0000

Two more ventures join ��ֳ�’s Digital Care Transformation (DCTx) Incubator

Thyago Ohana, Digital Care Transformation Immunology

Vanco Vlastimi… Thu 28/04/2022 - 11:22

Our Digital Care Transformation team is delighted to announce two new participants going into the DCTx Incubator.

We strongly believe these ventures could each have a major impact on global healthcare, and we are excited to take these steps on their journey together.

Voice technology that can act as a biomarker of disease

PeakProfiling combines voice analytics based on quantitative musicology of sound patterns with Machine Learning methods. Several clinical studies have already demonstrated that this technology can serve as a valid predictor of certain clinical conditions.

Julia Amunts of PeakProfiling “Working alongside the team of ��ֳ� will support us in validating our voice technology that can potentially act as a biomarker for a wide range of diseases. This collaboration entirely fits in our mission of developing individualised digital solutions to support the patients' journey from early diagnosis to disease monitoring.”

Delivering accessible, drug-free, digital wellness through Virtual Reality (VR) based technology

VRx Medical is an immersive digital therapeutics company founded in California by Garland Wong and Paul Lafferty. Their mission is to deliver accessible, drug-free, digital wellness through immersive VR technology.

Bringing together virtual and augmented reality to the fingertips of patients, providing a wide range of therapies that can integrate into their lifestyles.

Garland of VRx Medical comments "VRx Medical is proud and excited to work with the team at ��ֳ�. Together, we hope to optimize our digital therapeutic designed to improve the quality of life for patients suffering from chronic pain”.

To find out more about our incubator and to apply to be a part of the program, please visit our website on ��ֳ�-DCTx.com - alternatively, you can contact us via email on contact@ucb-dctx.com.

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Virtual Expo Advances ��ֳ�’s Digital Transformation Journey

eCMSadmin — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 09:00:00 +0000

Virtual Expo Advances ��ֳ�’s Digital Transformation Journey

Nicholas Kimbrough, Patient Value Development Solutions

eCMSadmin Thu 11/11/2021 - 10:00

At ��ֳ�, our digital transformation ambition is to amplify the power of scientific innovation to create sustainable value, ensuring patients can live the lives they choose. To further ignite this ambition, teams united in a week-long Expo event with a focus on:

Empowering our digital mindset
Using data and technology with purpose
Partnering for a greater impact

Open to colleagues globally, the event aimed to drive adoption, implementation and engagement of digital transformation activities, tools and processes.

Chief Medical Officer and Head of Development Solutions, Iris Loew-Friedrich, kicked off the event with a panel session of key stakeholders across ��ֳ� embedded in our digital journey. She emphasized the importance of continued digitalization through collaborative efforts internally and externally. ��ֳ� has recognized leveraging digital throughout the business is not a choice, but a necessity to enhance business performance and produce new value propositions.

The #3FOR1 Expo was organized by three teams within ��ֳ� who each have a key role to play in our digital transformation. While each are distinct, Technology Transformation Implementation, Transversal Patient Experience, and Digital Care Transformation collaborate across projects and initiatives to achieve one universal goal: to deliver enhanced performance and to explore new ways of doing business, resulting in increased Patient Value.

One of those initiatives highlighted during the Expo was our Bonebot, an artificial intelligence (AI) based fracture identification tool which detects the presence of “silent” or asymptomatic fractures in the spine. This session emphasized how digitization using artificial intelligence can help fulfill an unmet need, enabling diagnosis and treatment earlier in the treatment journey, potentially reducing the co-morbidities associated with osteoporosis.

A highlight of the Expo was keynote Ted Talk presented by Dave deBronkart Chief Patient Officer for PocketHealth, aka. “ePatient Dave”. As his own life’s journey with cancer gave to the rise of his empowerment as a patient, his key messages included the importance of listening and working together with patients. His book “Let Patients Help” highlights the importance of working with the customer rather than sitting in the ivory tower working for the customer.

As a patient-centered organization, we firmly believe that cross-functional initiatives such as the #3FOR1 Expo help us to broaden our focus from clinical efficacy to better understand the holistic patient experience, widening the gap on how we can truly engage and serve patients. While we address the biological impact of a diagnosis, we know we must look at the entire journey to truly understand the care gaps.

The virtual event concluded with, “A Toast to U!”, with Executive Committee Member and Head of PV Immunology & US Solutions, Emmanuel Caeymaex and Mike Branson, Head of the ��ֳ� Chief Data Officer and Head of SSI. Highlighting prioritized projects in 2021 and upcoming initiatives for 2022, the Expo offered colleagues many opportunities to engage, network, share best practices and learn. Throughout the Expo, colleagues interacted with leaders in the field who are true pioneers in digital transformation. The impressive four-day event held 7,000+ individual session registrations and 4,000+ unique session attendees spanning all ��ֳ� business units.

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��ֳ�’s Incubator Program 2023 – A Look Through Our Innovative Digital Health Startups

��ֳ�'s first Digital Health Incubator Demo Day

��ֳ� launches digital health roundtable series

Two more ventures join ��ֳ�’s Digital Care Transformation (DCTx) Incubator

Virtual Expo Advances ��ֳ�’s Digital Transformation Journey