Last week, Luxembourg’s leading HealthTechs joined the Arab Health 2022 trade mission to connect with health professionals in the MENA region and support the country in positioning itself as one of Europe’s most trusted data economies.
Organised by the Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce in the context of Arab Health 2022, this year’s HealthTech mission was all about leveraging technology to improve health around the world.
Well attended, the 2022 edition welcomed more than 4,000 companies and 84,700 visitors from 159 countries. As one of the “priority sectors for development” at the Ministry of Economy, Luxembourg’s HealthTechs are focussing on digitalising services and using innovative tools to improve the quality of their services.
“We believe that the digitalisation trend in healthcare will lead to new products, services and processes and we are enabling our HealthTech sector to respond to that opportunity, by creating programmes for companies to ready them for regulatory expectations and reimbursement opportunities on offer,” says Carole Brückler, PhD and Head of Digital Health Technologies at the Ministry of the Economy.
“The computing capacities […] will change how healthcare will be delivered in the future.”
Carole Brückler
These programmes are also part of Luxembourg’s wider ambition to become Europe’s most trusted data economy. Already a frontrunner in terms of connectivity, cybersecurity and data storage, the joint call for projets and pilot programme in the field of health technologies developed with the FNR and Luxinnovation, also implements AI tools to improve treatments.
“This joint call focuses on digital health tools, such as connected medical devices, digital health apps for patients, connected sensors that improve patient health or AI tools to improve treatments. We hope to announce the successful projects in the coming weeks and also the next steps on other programmes,” expands Carole Brückler.
HPCs For Health
As a crucial part of the Ministry of the Economy’s Data-Driven Innovation Strategy, Luxembourg’s HPC MeluXina plays an important role in shaping the development of the sector.
“The computing capacities required to drive value from the streams of data from sensors and health records, in real-time, will change how healthcare will be delivered in the future. The HealthTech companies will need to build such competencies to become competitive now and lead in the future,” says Carole Brückler.
With their HPC Thursdays series, Luxinnovation is already hard at work driving this competency building. More details and use cases will also be discussed during Luxinnovation’s health seminar on 17 March 2022.
