The healthcare industry in Hanover is booming. It employs approximately 76,000 people – roughly 15% of the social-security-contributing workforce, making healthcare the largest industry. Hanover has the largest offering of public hospitals, ranging up to super maximum care. It is a pioneer in cutting-edge, patient-focused research. The level of digitisation in healthcare is increasing simultaneously. The reasons for this include an aim to improve quality and commercial success.
We have identified this potential, which is why we are bringing together the big players in the local healthcare industry with the Digital Health City Hannover (DHCH) network. The initiative provides a high level of connectivity, supports existing active networks and builds links between them. It develops new instruments, is familiar with the influential stakeholders and brings them together. We guide and support innovative start-ups, existing companies and structural projects in the field of digital health.
Our goals
Enabling Innovation
The active digital health community in Hanover develops innovative technologies, products, solutions and business models for future-oriented patient healthcare.
Active ecosystem
Hannover has an active digital health ecosystem as fertile ground for all health stakeholders to improve health care and be economically successful.
Global influence
Hanover is seen internationally as a trailblazing location for digital health. Our network acts as a point of contact and offers a platform for interested people worldwide.
Our values
Competent
We are qualified, we are able to act decisively and we are constantly developing. We know the big players in the digital health sector and have the knowledge, capabilities, skills and judgement to steer the network that connects service providers and payers as well as businesses and academia.
Innovative
We shape and live the future. We promote innovation in digital health by guiding and supporting innovative start-ups and structural projects. In doing so, we are prepared to explore new, as yet unknown paths.
Considerate
Our work is characterised by our constant mutual trust. We keep sight of the human aspect and are always available for our network participants. We treat each other respectfully and appreciatively, are empathetic and act with integrity. Our motto is: “You’ll never walk alone.”
Cosmopolitan
We see DHCH as an integrative network that calls for the convergence and intercommunication of diverse players in the health industry. We are a global player for the future of digital health and we care for people across different cultures and position ourselves and Hanover internationally as an influencer of the future of digital health.