The projects of the Digital Health Innovation Platform (d.hip) aim to advance and promote the digitalization of health/medical care to quickly solve current worldwide healthcare challenges by bringing together the best talents in industry, research and university medicine in the Nuremberg metropolitan region.

d.hip is a cooperation network of industry, medicine and university research. Eligble for applications are members of the d.hip partner institutions: Siemens Healthineers, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg and Medical Valley EMN.

All information about project submissions and topic areas can be found in the Call for Projects. Proposals can be submitted continuously using the template for the d.hip 2020 single project application and sent in PDF format by email to projects@d-hip.de.

In order to classify your project idea, we need an assessment of how the project realization would impact the advancement of the so-called Technology Readiness Level (TRL), a method for estimation of the maturity of technologies during the acquisition phase of a program. The TRL is a scale to assess the state of development of new technologies based on systematic analysis. Please, indicate on a scale of 1 to 9 to what extent your technology proposal will evolve:

TRL 1: Observation and description of the operating principle

TRL 2: Description of the application of a technology

TRL 3: Proof of the functionality of a technology

TRL 4: Experimental setup in the laboratory

TRL 5: Experimental setup in operational environment

TRL 6: Prototype in operational environment

TRL 7: Prototype in action

TRL 8: Qualified system with proof of functionality in the field of application

TRL 9: Qualified system with proof of successful operation

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to write to projects@d-hip.de or contact the d.hip team directly.