Drylabz selected to participate in the Digital Health Nation Open Innovation challenge – advancing openEHR solutions in healthcare with Basel University Hospital
Basel University Hospital in Switzerland together with Digital Health Nation Innovation Booster has launched a three-month innovation challenge to explore scalable, openEHR-compliant solutions that can enhance the hospital’s clinical workflows and maximize the potential of their new openEHR platform. Drylabz is among the participants invited for the challenge.
Basel University Hospital is in a transformative journey towards becoming a data-driven hospital. As part of this process, the hospital has launched the Digital Health Nation Open Innovation Challenge to find solutions for enhancing interoperability, standardizing documentation, and improving data usability across the hospital’s departments.
The challenge, running from March to June 2025, is designed to develop scalable, openEHR-compliant solutions that integrate seamlessly into the hospital’s daily routines and tasks, and demonstrate significant impact on patient care and clinician efficiency.
Drylabz will participate in the challenge with its “RADICAL - Regulatory-compliant Algorithmic Diagnostics Integration for Clinical Accuracy and Logistics” project concept: Artificial Intelligence (AI) has transformed image-based diagnostics in pathology and radiology, yet medical calculators, clinical scoring systems, and simple algorithms are still largely computed manually. The “RADICAL” project aims to change that by developing an automated, regulatory-compliant calculator engine that integrates seamlessly with patient data and clinical workflows—helping to reduce clinician workload, minimize errors, and accelerate accurate decision-making.
During the challenge, Drylabz will collaborate closely with Basel University Hospital, working on a selected use-cases to assess real-world applicability and compliance.
“We are honored to contribute to the advancement of diagnostics within the clinical domain, supporting the Basel and wider Swiss healthcare ecosystem by helping to optimize physicians' time and enhance patient outcomes,” says Norbert Farkas, Co-founder and CEO of DryLabz.
Information about the challenge:
The University Hospital Basel and Personalized Health Basel, in collaboration with the Digital Health Nation Innovation Booster, have launched the Open Innovation Challenge with a topic "Improving Clinical Data Capture for Better Healthcare Outcomes."
DryLabz is a Basel-based, venture-backed, Healthtech startup dedicated to pioneering AI-driven diagnostic solutions. Our team, comprising experts with extensive backgrounds in diagnostics, AI, and pharmaceuticals from institutions like Roche, Novartis, and CERN, is committed to enhancing the precision and efficiency of clinical diagnostics. We are currently leveraging large datasets of anonymized patient records to develop and validate our prototype algorithms.
