Healthcare Innovation Program (HIP)

The Healthcare Innovation Program (HIP), sponsored by the Nixdorf Foundation, is dedicated to the idea of solving healthcare challenges with digital solutions and encourage digital-AI healthcare entrepreneurship. 

The goal of this low-intensity program (10 months, 10 hours/per month) is to equip participants with foundational knowledge while actively engaging them in solving a real-world healthcare challenges. 

This program empowers participants to pursue healthcare innovation and potentially become a part of TUM Venture Labs upon successful program completion. Innovation Partners can expect to potentially receive a viable digital solution tailored to their specific healthcare challenge. 

Themes: 
2023: Computer-aided decision-making in medical care 
2024: Digital therapeutics as a new treatment option for diseases
2025: Patient-centered telemedicine - how medicine gets to the patient 
 

What you can expect from the program: 

• Participants are introduced to healthcare challenges at the Nixdorf Forum. 
• Participants are assessed in terms of areas of interest and preferred healthcare challenge. 
• Matchmaking between participants and challenge partners happen. 
• Teams form and 6 workshops are planned within the year to educate participants. 
• Teams work on a prototype (10 hours per month) over the course of 10 months to solve the challenge. 
• Teams present their prototypes at the Nixdorf Forum and get potential entry to the TUM Venture Labs.