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How Israel's Digital Innovators Are Capturing The Minds Of Medtronic And Others

 
• By Catherine Longworth

The positive growth trend seen in Israel's digital health industry is galvanizing big players like Medtronic into action to start developing and recognizing synergistic technologies for future business. Medtech Insight met with members of MindUP, Israel's first digital health incubator and the result of a cross-industry partnership, at the MiXiii Biomed conference in Tel Aviv, to discover how the joint venture is driving the next generation of digital innovations.

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MindUP is Israel's first digital health incubator • Source: Shutterstock

With the explosion of Israeli digital health innovation in recent years, it was merely a matter of time before big players began to sit up and take notice. MindUP, a joint venture between Medtronic PLC, IBM, Pitango Venture Capital, Impact 1st Investments and Rambam Medical Center started activities in March 2016. As Israel's first incubator dedicated to digital health innovation, the program is focused on investment in the areas of big data, predictive analytics, telemedicine, cloud computing, wearable and implantable sensors, advanced point of care diagnostics and personalized medicine.

Through the two-year incubator program, entrepreneurs are promised "360-degree support" to help develop fully fledged companies that can reach market....

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