Week of Health and Innovation wants to WHINN Europe

The knowledge festival WHINN - Week of Health and Innovation is committed to gathering forces from all over Europe around health innovation by 2020.

Health Innovation. Strategic focus on research in health and growth technologies, investment in new hospitals, a thriving robot industry and generally good framework conditions can make Denmark Europe's capital for health innovation. Denmark is closely aligned with the health sector, and WHINN will use it to make the Region of Southern Denmark and the City of Odense the preferred venue for European players in health innovation. WHINN goes from primarily focuses on the Nordic region to also include the rest of Europe.

Denmark should be Europe's laboratory

Rising medicine prices and average life expectancy threaten the majority of European healthcare systems. Patients live longer with chronical diseases and the cost of treatment rises, and this may be a benefit to Denmark. Governments across the region are screaming for health innovation, and few countries are ready to solve the challenges like Denmark, says director for WHINN, Michaela Andersen:

"A high degree of digitization, strength in the field of health technology, rapid adoption rate and tradition of public / private partnerships make Denmark the perfect laboratory for the pursuit of future health solutions."

"Last year, WHINN mainly focused on the Nordic region, but this year we are looking look across boarders and aim to attract stakeholders from all over Europe. Among other things, it will be visible through a focused press effort across Europe, and a straight story about WHINN. "

The purpose of WHINN is to provide a framework for innovation in the health field through the meeting between public, private and professional interests. In other words, it is about creating an innovative environment focused on social purposes rather than commercial interests, and the WHINN organization is therefore also run as a non-for-profit model.

Facts:

WHINN - Week of Health and INNovation is a knowledge festival that brings together conferences in health innovation and technology.

The festival runs over four days from 9th to 12th of October 2017 and brings together a total of 12 conferences and 22 activities.

In 2016, almost 1,400 health professionals from primarily the Nordic countries attended WHINN, and this number is expected to rise to more than 1,500 from all over Europe in 2017.

WHINN is run as a non-for-profit organization.

Read more about WHINN at www.whinn.dk