Real Game Changers in Patient Value Creation on the Way to Becoming Future VBHC Prize Winners
The Value-Based Dragons’ Grant & Endorsement is developed in the interest of bringing together highly experienced early adopters of the Value-Based Health Care concept and pioneering early stage initiatives. The goal is to endorse the VBHC rough diamonds that need some shaping and grant the VBHC growth diamonds that need to scale-up in order to accelerate their VBHC intitiative. These nominees are the VBHC Prize winners of the future!
The Value-Based Dragons’ Grant & Endorsement 2020 took place as a hybrid event on November 4th at Buitenplaats Amerongen in Amerongen and online. At the event five very promising initiatives of the category Grant and four promising initiatives of the category Endorsement presented their initiatives to an international jury with experts from different backgrounds. In the first round the nominees had the opportunity to be consulted on pressing issues by the Dragons’ Den members that are most relevant to their initiative. Hereafter, the nominees were able to process newly gained insights into their pitch before they took the virtual stage and started to pitch their initiatives.
The Dragons’ Grant winner receives support and advice in upscaling worthy of €10.000,-. Moreover, the winner was also able to pitch their initiative during the VBHC Prize and benefit from all media attention and communication surrounding the event. This way, they build up momentum and we create traction for their initiative.
Dragons’ Den (Jury) 2020
Winner VBHC Dragons’ Grant 2020
Air Liquide Healthcare – PIMA. Improving the quality of life of patients undergoing continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) treatment with sleep apnea diagnosis. Read more…
Winner VBHC Dragons’ Endorsement 2020
Promoting Quality – PROMoting Quality is a collaborative research project bringing together leading German healthcare organisations, insurers, health economists and a technology provider. Read more…
The Value-Based Health Care Dragons’ Grant & Endorsement 2020 at Buitenplaats Amerongen.
Nominees 2020
Dragons’ Grant category

The aim of checkjezelf.nu to make STI care in the Netherlands more affordable, accessible and efficient through implementation of a data-driven ̧value-based healthcare approach. Read more…

A novel value-based bariatric surgery program sustained by 1-year results of early postoperative favorable outcomes. Read more…

M3Dical’s VHBC initiative tries to advance new 3D based technologies from novel ideas to patient care and therefore strengthen the patient-centred approach. Read more…

Working towards optimising care for heart failure patients
Aims to optimise care for heart failure patients at Swansea Bay University Health Board (SBuHB) with a Value Based Healthcare approach. Read more…
Dragons’ Endorsement category

Older patients with cancer and a limited life expectancy often use many medications that expectedly do not contribute to the quality of life or future health benefits any more. Read more…

PX Pulse intends to revolutionize patient experience by making it predictive, proactive and personalized. Read more…

PROMoting Quality is a collaborative research project bringing together leading German healthcare organisations, insurers, health economists and a technology provider. Read more…

The aim of the project is to allow vulnerable people, dependent on home care, in the Den Bosch area to live at home for as long as possible. Read more…

Winner VBHC Dragons’ Grant 2019

Laurentius Hospital Roermond – IncoCure. Improving healthcare for women who suffer from urinary incontinence, resulting in a better quality of life together with cost reduction. Read more …

Winner VBHC Dragons’ Endorsement 2019

Clinica Medica dell’Università Politecnica delle Marche-Azienda Ospedali Riuniti Torrette di Ancona – PID Early Diagnosis (PED). Wants to IMPROVE the knowledge of these diseases and early diagnosis of PID. We intend to create a solid network involving IPU to improve the quality of life of PID patients. Read more …


Aga Khan University Hospital Karachi – Value Based Care for Children with Congenital Heart Defects in Lower Middle-Income Country. Quality of care in LMIC is suboptimal. This initiative aims to implement value-based health care for children with congenital heart disease in LMIC with a deliberate focus on quality of health service by providing effective, safe, patient and family centred care that is timely, equitable, integrated and efficient. Read more …

The Value-Based Health Care Dragons’ Grant & Endorsement 2017 at Buitenplaats Amerongen.
Nominees 2019
Dragons’ Grant category
Region Hospitalet Randers – The Family Together. Improving both the health outcome and the psychosocial bonding between parents and their newborn child by keeping the family members together despite need for treatment in diverse medical specialties. Read more …
Maasstad ziekenhuis – Contracting acute care in Maasstad hospital. We want to be THE acute center in our service area, optimally equipped to receive each and every patient with an urgent medical need. Therefore we focus on delivering the right kind of acute care for our patients, in a timely manner and with a high quality. Read more …
Dragons’ Endorsement Category
The Golden Helix Foundation – Valuating Personalized Healthcare. We aim to provide the economic evidence that drug treatment individualization based on the patient’s genetic profile can help to reduce the overall healthcare expenditure. Read more …
EasyROM – EasyROM, Measuring Quality of medical treatments. Everybody, not every patient, has the right to highest Quality of Life level. To reach that level, everybody needs the best health care, tailored to their needs. EasyROM provides the insights for them, with the EasyROM app, a contemporary innovation, that puts the person in an active and centred role. Read more …DigiPharm – Blockchain for burden free and trusted VBHC contracting. The world’s first blockchain based platforms for value-based pricing of healthcare. We use blockchain to create a medical information infrastructure that enables trust in outcomes that will be used for healthcare reimbursement and smart contracts to remove the administrative burden of tracking and executing these agreements. Read more …
An impression of the VBHC Dragon’s Grant & Endorsement 2018.
Winner VBHC Dragons’ Grant 2018
Netherland Cancer Institute – Saving Women with Premalignant Breast disease, paradigm shift to label less women as cancer patients. Labelling fewer women as cancer patients, reducing associated medicine use and preventing unnecessary surgeries results in a higher quality of life. Read more …
Winners VBHC Dragons’ Endorsement 2018
PharmAccess Group and Joep Lange Institute – Mobile Primary Care in Remote Areas. A mobile platform in Kenya to create transparancy on costs and outcomes that matter most to patients in remote areas. Read more …
Stichting Epilepsie Instellingen Nederland – NightWatch Makes Detection of Nocturnal Epileptic Seizures Possible. A seizure detection system, which sets off an alarm for all nocturnal life-threatening seizures or seizures requiring immediate care, providing relief of care at night. Read more …
Nominees 2018
Dragon’s Grant category
Cardiologie Centra Nederland – Hartwacht: Mobile Health Program to Monitor Heart Diseases. Enable heart patients to have better control over decisions and actions affecting their health by monitoring heart diseases ultimately resulting in better quality of life. Read more …
Isala Klinieken – Adding value in the creation of life. A move towards prediction and joint decision making on several treatment pathways. Engage in unfulfilled child wish to create patient value and improve the quality of live on the full cycle of care. Read more …
Dragon’s Endorsement Category

Catharina Ziekenhuis – Algorithm for Facial Reconstruction. A dynamic and self-learning algorithm for the reconstruction of facial defects. The algorithm measures patient satisfaction and is directly updated with the emergence of new evidence striving for excellent patient value. Read more …
Isala Klinieken – VBHC in Pregnancy and Childbirth. Decrease neonatal morbidity and mortality, improve Patient-Reported Experience Measures (PREMs) and reducing health care costs. Read more …