Smart Health: Advancing collaborative healthcare

Enabling smarter, connected care for better health outcomes

Through partnerships in research and development projects, we create innovative software and IT solutions that improve communication, coordination, and empowerment across the healthcare ecosystem.

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Challenges in healthcare

Healthcare providers face a growing demand for good care with limited resources.

A big problem is that people involved in healthcare (providers, organizations, and patients) don’t always interact effectively.

This can lead to unclear communication, slow decisions, and inefficiencies, ultimately affecting care quality and patient satisfaction.

Improving how everyone connects and shares information is key to better coordination and happier patients.

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Tackling these challenges requires new technological approaches, which we explore together with partners through innovative R&D projects.

Our vision for Smart Health

Our vision for smart healthcare focuses on improving interactions between caregivers, organizations, and patients.

In our R&D projects, we explore the integration of intelligent agents into healthcare systems to enhance these interactions and increase efficiency.

These digital tools can streamline workflows, handle routine tasks, enable personalized care before problems escalate, and reduce administrative work.

Ultimately, we aim for a future where preventing health issues and enabling people to manage their own health reduces the need for professional care.

Intelligent agents in smart health
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We believe healthcare should shift from treating sickness to supporting overall well-being, from people being passive to active, and from individualism to community.

In our R&D projects, Almende explores new technologies and systems that make this shift possible. Thus creating solutions that are more efficient and better suited to what individuals and society need.

Building smart health technology

Technology to improve healthcare

Our research and development projects develop technologies that:

These solutions seek to enhance care quality, increase efficiency, and empower individuals to take more control over their health journeys.

Showcase: Smart Health ventures

Almende’s R&D projects and ventures in smart health demonstrate how technology developed in collaboration with partners leads to practical impact.

Our ventures grew from collaborative subsidized R&D projects and show how ideas developed in research can evolve into impactful, operational solutions.

Venture: NiceDay

NiceDay develops a secure digital platform enabling mental healthcare providers to deliver therapy online.

Originating from collaborative R&D involving Almende, the platform offers secure video sessions, chat, and self‑management tools for clients.

With NiceDay’s technology, mental health organizations can provide more flexible, accessible, and personalized treatment to their patients.

Venture: Sol Psychotherapie

Sol Psychotherapie is an online mental healthcare provider focused on improving access to and effectiveness of therapy.

Using the NiceDay platform, Sol delivers online therapy, offers intensive therapist contact, and provides self‑management tools. This approach empowers clients to actively engage in their recovery process.

As a result, they often recover more quickly than with traditional treatments.

Venture: Attenza (exited)

Attenza delivers specialized palliative and intensive terminal home care, ensuring people can remain at home in comfort during their final days.

Supported by a platform developed through R&D with Almende, Attenza can coordinate a nationwide network of 1,500 professionals for rapid, on‑demand care.

This capability enables them to provide specialist palliative care, even in remote areas, within two hours.

Smart Health Research and Development projects

Explore our portfolio of subsidized R&D projects tackling real healthcare challenges with technology.

See how Almende works alongside healthcare professionals and organizations to design and test new approaches that improve collaboration, prevention, and personal health management.

Partner with Almende

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