Presentation at the first edition of the HealthTech Forum Moldova 2022

1. HEALTH INNOVATION FOR
A RESILIENT ECOSYSTEM
ION-GHEORGHE PETROVAI.
MD
Chisinau – Moldova - June
2022

2. The
healthcare
innovator
Startup/
Solution
Medical system
Administration

3. DR. ION GHEORGHE
PETROVAI
Co-Founder & Innovation Director FreshBlood HealthTech
Adjunct Professor & Ecosystem Director HIVE - UBB
Startup advisor and angel investor
20 + years of health
15+ years of business
10+ years of entrepreneurship
5+ years of IT
DR.ION GHEORGHE
PETROVAI
Co-Founder & Innovation Director FreshBlood HealthTech
Adjunct Professor & Ecosystem Director HIVE - UBB
Startup advisor and angel investor
20 + years of health
15+ years of business
10+ years of entrepreneurship
5+ years of IT
DR.ION GHEORGHE
PETROVAI
Co-Founder & Innovation Director FreshBlood HealthTech
Adjunct Professor & Ecosystem Director HIVE - UBB
Startup advisor and angel investor
20 + years of health
15+ years of business
10+ years of entrepreneurship
5+ years of IT

4. AGENDA
HealthTech Ecosystem
Innovators, Startups & Resilience
What we do?

5. 2012
THE HEALTHCARE ECOSYSTEM IS COMPLEX
+STARTUPS
Least to lose

6. THE HEALTHCARE PLAYERS ARE:
Big players
 Dangerous
 In competition
 Worried of „sunken” costs
(capital expenses, training)
Startups:
 Small
 Risk pro
 Colaborating
 No/low sunken costs

8. EXAMPLE:

9.  People (students, doctors, researchers, developers, etc.)
 Teaching/training/meetups + hackathons
 EITHealth Campus Programs (all over Europe)
 Projects (Innovative&Startups) (healthcare oriented from Ro and
Eastern Europe)
 Access to resources (know how, people, money)
 EITHealth Accelerator & Local Innovation Project
 Partnerships ( public/private local/national institutions)
 Universities, NGO’s, companies and investors
We drive
Healthcare
Innovation
(faster)

10. We have partners - Department of Public Health @UBBCluj –
HIVE - Center for Healthcare Innovation
- EITHealth – RIS HUB for Romania
(grant 2018-2022)
- Ro Health Cluster/MedRo – Startup Support
- Transylvania IT Cluster
○ eHealth Working Group
○ Transylvania DIH
- ECHAlliance – Ecosystem connections and
development
- …your organisation...

11. Innovators&Startupers

12. Smartphone+ Whatsapp
Whatsapp pictures
Startups Telemedicine
Norming Telemedicine
https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/focus/human-capital-trends/2017/introduction.html
THE TECHNOLOGY ECOSYSTEM IS DYNAMIC

13. STARTUPS (DEFINITION)
TEAM
aiming to solve a
PROBLEM

17. MORE STARTUPS IN HEALTHCARE
60+ health startups
in Romania

18. What (could) we do?

19. What we do?
Educate, Resources, Open Doors

20. EDUCATE - HACKATHONS
2019
2020 - 2021
2022

21. EDUCATE – CONNECT PROGRAM
Connect.publichealth.ro

22. RESOURCES: GUIDANCE
Medical
Why?
Technical
What?
Design
How?
Business
Who, when and
how much?

23. RESOURCES: FUNDING (450K+ EUR ÎN 2020)
4*25K – 100 K EUR
4*75K – 300 K EUR
1 in Headstart – 50K EUR 1 in Bridgehead – 30K EUR

24. OPEN DOORS - HUBVANTAGE
For healthcare mentors
• Interesting collaborations
• Publishing opportunities
• Advising opportunities
Structured and moderated
Founder/Mentor program
for healthcare startupers
For healthcare startup founders
• Faster understanding & decisions
• Faster connections
• Meeting advisors/investors

25. “Not hard to do, hard to get into doing stage!”
Constantin BRANCUSI 1876-1957

26. THE WAY AHEAD

27. igpetrovai@freshblood.ro
https://www.linkedin.com/in/iongpetrova
i/
/HealthinnovatorsEU Facebook
Group/LinkedIn Group
HEALTHCARE INNOVATION MUST BE:
Multi
disciplinary Reality
Based Supported