Innovation for Better Health

Good ideas belong in patient care.

Innovade develops, tests and evaluates solutions for people-centred healthcare – together with practitioners, researchers and patients. And brings what works into routine care.

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Rethinking Health

Think tank

We analyse where healthcare reaches its limits today and develop evidence-based perspectives for the health of tomorrow.

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Connecting Care

Implementation network

We bring care providers, researchers, payers, municipalities and patients to the same table.

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Creating Impact

Innovation lab

We test in living labs, measure impact transparently and transfer successful approaches into existing structures.

Flagship projects

From health navigation for families to new treatments for depression: this is where our approach becomes concrete.

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GesundheitsKompass Freiburg

Low-threshold, family-centred health navigation: we help families in Freiburg find the right care at the right time.

  • Health navigation
  • Public health
  • Cross-sector care
Ongoing

Innovade Therapeutics

Next-generation antidepressants: fast-acting, well-tolerated treatments for depression – from research in Freiburg on the way to the clinic.

  • Translation & therapeutics
Ongoing

Fund Advisor

An open standard for impact in health: criteria that funds, companies and start-ups can be measured against, and support for public-interest ventures.

  • Living labs & impact
  • Translation & therapeutics

How we work

Many good ideas in healthcare never leave the drawing board or end as a pilot. We accompany initiatives from the first understanding of the problem all the way into routine care.

  1. InitiateIdentify relevant care problems and bring partners on board.
  2. DevelopCo-design solutions with patients and professionals.
  3. TestTrial them under real-world conditions in living labs.
  4. EvaluateMeasure impact scientifically and transparently.
  5. TransferBring successful approaches into existing structures.

Our fields of action

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Public health & social value

Improving population health, strengthening health literacy and reducing inequalities in access to care.

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Cross-sector care

Better transitions between outpatient, inpatient, preventive, rehabilitative and social care – along the entire patient journey.

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Information, transparency & health navigation

Making health information understandable and actionable so that people find the support that is right for them.

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Out-of-the-box innovation

Questioning established processes and developing unconventional solutions – with design thinking, co-creation and digital technologies.

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Living labs & impact measurement

Testing new models of care under real-world conditions and measuring their impact transparently.

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Translation & therapeutic innovation

Creating environments in which truly relevant therapeutics emerge – driven by what patients actually need.

Healthcare that is built around people – not around the boundaries of its institutions.

Let's rethink care together

Whether you work in healthcare, research, public administration, patient organisations or impact investing – we would love to hear from you.

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