The collaborative hub that brings together players in healthcare innovation.
Vision
To become an essential hub for the deployment of innovative, effective and sustainable solutions in the healthcare sector.
Mission
To promote innovation in healthcare through a collaborative, pragmatic and tailored approach, offering targeted solutions that optimise resource efficiency and profitability.
Objectives of H4
H4 provides assurance that it supports projects that have a concrete, safe and sustainable impact on patients, their families, caregivers and institutions.
Support
each innovation with targeted and useful actions
Strengthen
the existing healthcare innovation offering: sourcing and developing a portfolio of innovations
Validate
innovations to ensure their impact on health with a field-based approach
Bring together
an active multidisciplinary community to foster useful innovations
Genesis
H4 was launched in January 2022 by the Institut La Source, in collaboration with three departments of the Canton of Vaud: Economy and Innovation, Education and Health.
Its main mission is to support individuals and businesses, from start-ups to SMEs, who have an innovative idea or project in the field of healthcare.
H4 provides analysis and services to:
● Assessing the relevance of a project, its progress and its risks
● Providing guidance on the actions needed to move the project forward
● Launching a productive and decisive experimentation phase
● Facilitating access to experts, users and infrastructure
● Submitting the project to healthcare experts for evaluation and advice
● Finding partners and sources of funding for experimentation
To achieve this, H4 analyses each request from a strategic and operational perspective.
It can also draw on a large community of experts and partners who are recognised in their field and have a keen interest in innovation. This collaborative and pragmatic approach focused on healthcare complements the Canton’s existing innovation support offering and enables the rapid development of effective innovations tailored to the needs on the ground.