CIMTI

An instrument at the service of the catalan health and social system

We work to make the high-impact health and social innovations available for citizens.

We identify the most relevant challenges of the health and social sistem, in coordination with the implicated Departments of the Generalitat. We select the best proposals to solve these challenges.

We accompany the selected projects both in the maturation phase and in the implementation stage following an own methodology which has been adapted from the CIMIT’s methodology.

We contribute to the maturation of projects by facilitating work meetings with our network of experts, from both the CIMTI community and the CIMIT of Boston. We give support in the areas of business, market, public procurement of innovation, regulatory, clinical, technology, investment and communication.

And we do not stop here. We are the only instrument that accompanies projects in their implementation both in Catalonia and internationally. We work with the Health Department and AQuAS to implement the mature projects that solve system challenges through public procurement of innovation. We facilitate the meetings, contacts and means to make it possible.

Promoter entity

Fundación Leitat

Supported by

Salut

Strategic alliances

CIMIT. Consortia for Improving Medicine with Innovation & TechnologyHealthcare Living Lab Catalonia

Our story

CIMTI was created in 2016 as an initiative with the aim to improve, at national level, the conversion ratio of scientific research on innovation. Thus, CIMTI is singled out as a project that seeks to ensure that research excellence is reflected in innovation excellence. CIMTI reinforces innovation structures, processes and policies based on promoting disruptive and incremental initiatives, with high health and social impact.

The promoter entity of CIMTI is Fundación LEITAT, with the support from the Catalan Government (Generalitat de Catalunya) Health Services Department, the Agency for Health Quality and Assessment of Catalonia (AQuAS, as per the acronym in Catalan), and a strategic alliance with the CIMIT of Boston and the Healthcare Living Lab Catalonia (HCLLC).

 

 

Our objectives

To improve the quality of life of citizensand Catalonia’s positioning in terms of innovation in the European context.

To generate impact by promoting the implementation of initiatives that generate a high health and social impact internationally. These initiatives must value the scientific production developed within the framework of the health and social research system.

To concentrate experience in the field of medical-technological devices and instruments, both in research and in the field of knowledge transfer and innovation.

To bring knowledge together through a network, the CIMIT community, that facilitates the contact of the agents involved: researchers from hospitals of SISCAT system, CERCA research centres, entrepreneurs and public and private sector entities that give more value to each function and stage of the process.

To deploy strategies to attract public and private investment, facilitate the internationalization and maximize the social impact of our innovations.

Visualization and transparency of the added value generated speaking of health, economics and social.

They say about us

Talia Leibovitz, CEO of Kala Health

“Being selected by CIMTI has been key in the development of the project, since they support us in a very close and personalized way, adapting to our needs and providing a large number of services, consultancies, mentorships, etc., based on an agile and innovative methodology. In addition, the team’s human and professional quality is incomparable.”

Talia Leibovitz, CEO of Kala Health

Judit Giró, Co-founder and CEO of The Blue Box

“Innovating in the field of biomedical engineering is extremely multidisciplinary. We engineers know how to make technology, but it will not become a product if we do not work hand in hand with the medical community and we understand the problem we are solving very well. For The Blue Box, CIMTI has been the door to knock whenever we needed to test and validate that what we are building fits exactly with the problem we want to solve.”

Judit Giró, Co-founder and CEO of The Blue Box

Veronica Montesinos, Founder and CEO of Dana

“Methodology, commitment and visibility. These are the three pillars that define CIMTI’s support in the development process of Dana as a solution to the mental health disorders of women in midwifery. Its own Health Innovation Cycle, the support of a highly committed team and access to qualified experts and resources have been a significant asset in the advancement of our project.”

Veronica Montesinos, Founder and CEO of Dana

Patricia Peña, CTO of Clarity Stethoscope

“Collaborating with CIMTI has been a catalyst for Clarity Stethoscope, giving us a renewed energy. It offers us constant and personalized support. The health innovation cycle methodology allows us to advance simultaneously in all critical areas, which promotes uniform and solid development. In addition, it has helped us to establish connections with extremely valuable external advisers. CIMTI is empowering us to transform and empower the patient experience.”

Patricia Peña, CTO of Clarity Stethoscope

Marc Casellas, Co-founder and CEO of Point Pressure

“In recent months we have had the opportunity to participate in the CIMTI Mentoring Program and the experience has been unbeatable. The feedback received by the panel of experts in the areas of healthcare market and funding has been crucial in finalizing the strategy for the current phase.”

Marc Casellas, Co-founder and CEO of Point Pressure

Mycaretech Team

“We highly value the mentoring we have received so far. We appreciate the high level of experience and familiarity with the sector. At the beginning of Mycaretech this service helped us to review the partnership and to resolve doubts, in matters of intellectual protection, on which countries to protect ourselves. In recent sessions, they have helped us structure the business model by explaining it in a very entertaining way, making us participate, and giving examples for all the explanations. Specifically, our mentor is a sincere person with good constructive reviews to help us improve day by day.”

Mycaretech Team

Míriam Armona Verdú, Head of Nursing Surgical Care Process at the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau in Barcelona

“The essence of the nursing profession is to heal people. Technology is being used in all sectors, including nursing. PreparatB, a digital tool that improves the preoperative preparation of surgical patients, is a clear example of this. CIMTI’s Impact Program supports us in accelerating our innovative project and implementing it.”

Míriam Armona Verdú, Head of Nursing Surgical Care Process at the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau in Barcelona

Benesit Team

“The CIMTI has not only advised us on the industrial property and regulatory strategy, but also on the technological development of the device and industrialization. In this sense, CIMTI has supported us in the definition of technical requirements, product design and the optimization and integration of electronics.

We are currently working together to scale up the production of the device. Thanks to the help of CIMTI, we will be able to reduce the time to market, saving time, effort, and resources.”

Benesit Team

Luis M. Artiles Martínez, Co-founder and COO Manina Medtech

“Seedchrony, the medical device that will detect the right time for embryo transfer increasing the success of fertility treatments, was incorporated into the Impact Program almost two years ago.

Since then, we have received assistance in several areas to develop our project. The most relevant areas include training in entrepreneurship management, business model, and innovation strategy; marketing, to define and protect the brand image; and regulatory, which is essential to know the legal requirements that our device has to meet.

We have been supported by the CIMTI team through the process, and their ability to identify specialists who can help us in different areas of growth has been amazing. THANK YOU, CIMTI!”

Luis M. Artiles Martínez, Co-founder and COO Manina Medtech

Esther Deltor, meHRs Health Area Director, H4W Breast Cancer

“The Health Innovation Cycle methodology allows us to advance the project quickly and effectively, reaching the market with an innovative solution that helps reduce the social impact of breast cancer. The services and support offered by CIMTI are tailored to the needs of the project and its stage of development, which makes it easier to follow the path quickly. It also has a team with a great capacity to understand and meet the needs of the professionals behind each healthcare innovation project.”

Esther Deltor, meHRs Health Area Director, H4W Breast Cancer

Albert Antolín, Innovation, transfer and IDIBGI national projects Technician

“CIMTI is a key player in our country’s innovation ecosystem. CIMTI’s methodology and support accelerates the process so that innovations from biomedical research centers such as IDIBGI reach society, the patient and the daily routine of clinical practice.”

Albert Antolín, Innovation, transfer and IDIBGI national projects Technician

Roser Fernández, directora general de la Unió Catalana d’Hospitals

The CIMTI is for us and for the innovation ecosystem, a very important strategic agent to encourage disruptive projects to reach the system. Its work is fully aligned with La Unió’s +FUTUR, which wants to promote collaborative and transformational innovation in health and social organizations.

Roser Fernández, directora general de la Unió Catalana d’Hospitals

Eduard Soler, Head of the Innovation Unit de l’Institut d’Investigació i Innovació Parc Taulí (I3PT)

The CIMTI has allowed us to complement innovative projects in the field of health, with valorization services from a regulatory, market and business, clinical and technological point of view. In addition, the adaptation of the program to the different levels of maturity of the projects, has been key in providing support for the different needs that have been emerging throughout the jointly defined development strategy.

Eduard Soler, Head of the Innovation Unit de l’Institut d’Investigació i Innovació Parc Taulí (I3PT)

Amadís Pagès, CEO of Moirai Biodesign

“CIMTI has marked a before and after because it has helped us to cover needs that we had in many aspects. CIMTI has connected us to investors, to consultants that helped us in the regulatory plan or in the market access of medical technologies. It has connected us to agents that develop technologies to scale prototypes. And, somehow, it has brought an important value to the company.”

 

Amadís Pagès, CEO of Moirai Biodesign

Àlex Garcia, CTO & co-founder of ABLE

“Thanks to the CIMTI support, we have received technical advice to validate de Multi Jet Fusion technology. This has allowed us to understand all the possibilities of this technology and study the application viability to our product. Moreover, we had the possibility to manufacture a few samples and check the finishes as well as the mechanical properties of the pieces.”

 

Àlex Garcia, CTO & co-founder of ABLE

Cristina Roure, representative of eMedRec

“CIMTI team is helping us to have a global vision of our project impact, giving us orientation and accompanying us to arrive to market. We specially value their support and the contact with experts to develop the non-clinical aspects, such as the regulatory frame and the intellectual property. In this sense, we have been able to make decisions to advance and consolidate the implementation of eMedRec.”

Cristina Roure, representative of eMedRec

Xavier Gallego, representative of Taby Diagnostics

“CIMTI has given us the needed tools to validate our technology, not only at a clinical level since they have a network of contacts from many hospitals, but also at a regulatory and market level. Moreover, they have put us in touch with investors that have helped us to define our business model.”

 

Xavier Gallego, representative of Taby Diagnostics

Vanessa Bueno, representative of Easysims

“CIMTI is helping and collaborating enormously in the development of the Easysims project. What I would highlight most is the simplification, proximity and efficiency of the CIMTI team. The support from the experts we have access through the Impact Program is crucial when making decisions, for exemple in aspects such as the intellectual and industrial property protection.”

 

 

Vanessa Bueno, representative of Easysims