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The Health Innovation Zone (HIZ) was a unique pre-validation program for innovative healthcare solutions that provided access to industry experts, mentors, testing facilities and a fast track to the international ecosystem, organized by the Digital Innovation Zone together with EIT Health, the “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iasi and the University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Gr. T. Popa” from Iasi.
The program ran from June to November 2023, and was designed to support healthcare start-ups in regions with modest and moderate innovation capacity, according to the European Innovation Scoreboard. 12 teams with innovative solutions benefited from the pre-validation program organized on the principles of design thinking and frequent interaction with mentors and experts from the medical and tech fields, and access to the innovation ecosystem of EIT Health.
