with added value
Innovation
As needs change, so do innovations. That’s why we’re always driving developments, offering added value to our customers and supporting our employees – together with innovative start-ups and the best minds in the team.
What catches our eye?
As a health partner, we are interested in applications and offerings that encourage our customers to take their health into their own hands and deal with their insurance matters quickly and easily. We are also interested in start-ups that help us to make our core processes more efficient and lower healthcare costs.
Wanted: real innovative strength
We enter into partnership with selected start-ups, support joint pilot projects and offer our support to promising ideas, also in the form of venture capital, for example for:
- Prevention: Business ideas that encourage a holistic, healthy lifestyle or with a connection to preventive check-ups
- Support: Products and services that offer support during treatment, in the case of chronic illness or during pregnancy
- Treatment: Start-ups with exciting offers that make initial assessments more efficient or improve existing diagnoses and treatments
- Insurance: Innovative approaches to improve the efficiency of our core processes, to aid intelligent use of data and increase convenience for our customers. And also ideas that radically reimagine the health insurance industry
- Taboo subjects: New ways to tackle taboo subjects in medicine
Prototype or product and pitch deck to hand?
Strong partnerships
Roughly every 13th baby is still born prematurely in Switzerland. Premature births often have dramatic consequences for those involved and costs can spiral very quickly. ETH spin-off Pregnolia AG has developed a method of measurement that is more accurately able to predict the risk of a possible premature birth. Sanitas is the first health insurer in Switzerland to reimburse the cost of the Pregnolia test for customers who have supplementary outpatient insurance (Vital).
The Sanitas Coach app helps users keep an eye on their health with a focus on high blood pressure. App developer Pathmate Technologies creates apps that support the prevention and self-management of chronic illnesses in everyday life. The content is developed and improved upon in close collaboration with medical experts in the respective field. The success of Pathmate’s approach has been proven in numerous scientific studies.
More than two million people in Switzerland have to take medication on a regular basis. Medication not being taken or not being taken correctly is a major driver of costs in the Swiss healthcare industry. The TOM app helps users to keep an overview of their medication and ensure that they take the right dosage at the right time.
Users of the Sanitas Portal can enter their symptoms in the app and receive a suitable recommendation for action immediately. This certified service was developed by Sensely Inc. in collaboration with the renowned Mayo Clinic in the United States and integrated into the Sanitas Portal app.
HelloBetter is an independent provider of digital medical solutions for mental health conditions. Its aim is to empower people to manage their own mental health at any time and improve their quality of life. The effectiveness of the online therapy courses has been proven in numerous clinical trials.
Swiss platform Aepsy finds experienced therapists for psychotherapy and psychological coaching. A matching system is used to suggest suitable psychotherapists for each individual situation. Aepsy’s goal is to ensure that people get the help they need quickly and without judgement.
