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Yesterday HI-NL organized a HI-NL case team meeting with useful insights, clear updates, and good exchange between members from several HI-NL case teams. The discussions and great energy once again showed the value of sharing experiences across case teams.

As 2025 comes to a close, we look back on another impactful year for Health Innovation Netherlands (HI-NL), marked by strong collaboration, insightful discussions, and a shared commitment to advancing Medtech innovation.

We recently interviewed Egbert Smit, CEO of MLA Diagnostics. Five years ago, MLA Diagnostics started developing an innovative risk assessment test for skin cancer.

Op 26 maart van 15:30-17:00 organiseren Nefemed en FME een webinar over Health Innovation Netherlands (HI-NL).

Health Innovation Netherlands (HI-NL) granted EUR 1.5 million by the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport.

Health Innovation Netherlands (HI-NL) director Maroeska Rovers has been appointed as scientific director of the TechMed Centre as of 1 September 2022.

Health Innovation Netherlands (HI-NL) Director Maroeska Rovers was interviewed by Dutch Health Hub. The Dutch Health Hub initiative brings together stakeholders in the field of healthcare aiming to contribute to more affordable, better and sustainable care.

Recently, the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy submitted the MedTechNL proposal to the National Growth Fund

Dr. Murray Sheldon is Associate Director of Technology and Innovation at the FDA and leads the Medical Device Payer Communication Task Force. Before joining the FDA in 2013, he worked in several roles developing Medical Devices and providing expert consultancy services to innovators.

On 29 January 2020 Health Innovation Netherlands (HI-NL) was launched at the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport in The Hague. Together with our partners we are looking back at a successful first year in which we set up our Round Table service to help valuable innovations reach patients faster.

In 2020 Top Sector Life Sciences & Health (Health~Holland) and Health Innovation Netherlands (HI-NL) decided to work together and advise consortia funded through the Match Call program to make use of the HI-NL infrastructure, expertise, and services.

Recently an article by HI-NL ambassadors Erik Buskens and Manuela Joore was published by the magazine ICT&Health.

Register now for the Global Access to Innovation in Healthtech (GAINH) Summit! The GAINH summit in collaboration with EXCITE international and HI-NL will take place on 2 -3 June 2021 in Amsterdam.

In a recent letter to Parliament, Dutch Minister for Medical Care and Sport Tamara van Ark is positive about the results achieved since the launch of HI-NL in January 2020. The Minister reflects on the eight Round Table sessions that already took place and praises the active involvement of patients in the sessions.

Manuela Joore is currently head of the department of Clinical Epidemiology and Medical Technology Assessment at Maastricht UMC+ and holds a chair in Health Technology Assessment. She is involved in HI-NL as an ambassador and case team lead. She was interviewed about her experience with HI-NL round tables from a case team perspective.