Hesse presents e-health award for the first time

Three projects in two categories won the E-Health Award, which is endowed with 10,000 euros each. The winners are dedicated to the monitoring of operations, obesity during pregnancy and the individual administration of medication.

On Thursday, the Hessian Ministry of Social Affairs presented the E-Health Award for the first time. In the "Innovative start-up" category, the expert jury was equally impressed by two ideas: the "Psychological support for obesity during pregnancy" project by Mentalstark and the "Patronus Prehab App". The latter accompanies patients before and after an operation with interval training so that they can prepare themselves "physically, mentally and nutritionally for the procedure", as Andreas Schnitzbauer, Managing Director of Patronus Health GmbH, explains.

The program during pregnancy for women with obesity offers online groups, information and individual consultations as a modular system: "With my team of psychologists, we provide these women with advice and support - via telemedicine from the comfort of their own sofa," says Sally Schulz, founder of Mentalstark, about her program.

Gims.pharma, a digitalized system for individual drug administration, won the second category "Example of care with high patient benefit". This is because undesirable side effects or poor efficacy when taking medication cost the German healthcare system over one billion euros per year, which "customized drug therapy" is intended to counteract, as the ministry writes in its press release.

The award-winning projects each receive 10,000 euros; the jury consisted of representatives from business, research and politics in Hesse. The award ceremony took place as part of the Hesse E-Health Congress in Frankfurt am Main. Originally, only one winner was planned for each category.