Excellent future prospects for digital health startups in the Ruhr region (Sponsored)
Summary
As a metropolitan area with more than 5 million people, some 110 hospitals, 9000 doctors’ practices, 1100 nursing homes and outpatient service providers, and 1400 pharmacies, the Ruhr is an outstanding location for companies in the health sector. The health ecosystem includes leading research institutes, innovative universities and colleges, established small and medium-sized enterprises, and promising startups. “We would like to work with innovative startups in the digital health sector in order to offer our customers new services,” reports Jana Drechsler, who is responsible for partnerships at opta data. “We hope that the cooperation will provide us with fresh ideas and offer the startups significant experience in dealing with our roughly 60,000 customers.” As we make our way through the coronavirus crisis era, it is obvious that the digital platform Matchmaker.Ruhr has come along at just the right time. One example is the active cooperation with the German-Israeli Chamber of Industry and Commerce, which provides young companies from the startup nation of Israel with contacts in the Ruhr region.