Sandoz invites young entrepreneurs to enter Sandoz HACk, a global competition to help solve healthcare access challenges - Seite 2
Mobile technology is radically altering how care is delivered and received worldwide and the influence of mobile in healthcare is likely to continue evolving in the future. In its inaugural year, Sandoz HACk encourages today's generation of entrepreneurs and creative thinkers to enter ideas that harness mobile health technologies - M-Health - to help solve relevant local healthcare access challenges.
Sandoz HACk is open for entries from 18-35 year olds around the world. Following a robust judging process, the six finalist entries will be published on OpenIDEO - a global community of leading organizations and individuals working together to design solutions to the world's biggest challenges. Entrants' ideas will be refined and evolved in partnership with this online community before being presented to a panel of judges. Three winners will be chosen and awarded seed funding and mentorship to help bring their ideas to life.
Details of how to enter the competition and the terms and conditions can be found on the:
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Sandoz website - www.sandoz.com/makingaccesshappen
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Sandoz Facebook page - www.facebook.com/sandozglobal
Join the conversation on Twitter and Facebook using #SandozHACk.
For further details about Sandoz HACk partner, OpenIDEO visit www.openideo.com.
About Sandoz
Sandoz is a global leader in generic and biosimilar pharmaceuticals. As a division of the Novartis Group, our purpose is to discover new ways to improve and extend people's lives. We contribute to society's ability to support growing healthcare needs by pioneering novel approaches to help people around the world access high-quality medicine. Our portfolio of approximately 1000 molecules, covering all major therapeutic areas, accounted for 2015 sales of USD 10.1 billion. In 2015, our products reached more than 500 million patients and we aspire to reach one billion. Sandoz is headquartered in Holzkirchen, in Germany's Greater Munich area.
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For further details visit www.sandoz.com/makingaccesshappen
References
[1] WHO: Health in 2015; Access to Medicine Index 2015
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