Visana, Swiss Medical Network and the Canton of Berne have joined forces to launch Switzerland's first integrated healthcare organization. This new "VIVA" basic insurance model has been deployed in the Arc jurassien region, giving rise to the creation of Réseau de l'ArcSA, a healthcare organization offering its own health plan as an alternative to the traditional health insurance system. This system, with its two hospital sites in Moutier and Saint-Imier, its Médicentres and its Pôle Santé Mentale, offers the inhabitants of the Arc jurassien region medical services (prevention, basic care, hospital services and care for the elderly) with an associated health insurance product. The Réseau de l'Arc healthcare organization will manage the health capital of people who choose this health plan in place of their traditional basic health insurance, with the primary mission of preserving their health.
Antoine Hubert, Managing Director of Genolier Innovation Hub and Founder and Director of Swiss Medical Network explains: "In Visana, we have found the ideal insurance partner to implement our vision of creating the first integrated healthcare organization in Switzerland. Our aim is to provide medical and insurance services in a coordinated way, through a single organization, to ensure better quality of care for our patients, while helping to reduce costs. Several examples from Spain, such as Ribera Salud, and the USA, such as Kaiser Permanente, clearly demonstrate that this is possible. With this first fully integrated healthcare organization, we want to provide answers and propose solutions so that all of Switzerland can benefit from a high-quality, cost-effective healthcare system in the future".
Together with Swiss Medical Network and, more broadly, the AEVIS VICTORIA SA Group and the healthcare sector, of which the Genolier Innovation Hub is a part,Visana will contribute to the creation and development of a new healthcare paradigm in which the patient is at the heart of thinking and innovation is at the heart of processes.
Innovation in the service of the patient as a link between the Genolier Innovation Hub and Visana
The Genolier Innovation Hub, whose infrastructure is owned by Infracore, represents an investment of almost 70 million Swiss francs. Covering an area of 25,000m2, it will host a variety of companies dedicated to innovation in the healthcare sector, with the primary aim of improving and accelerating patient care solutions. Unprecedented and exclusive within the Swiss medical ecosystem, the Genolier Innovation Hub embodies a new biomedical dynamic between research and clinical practice. Featuring a 300-seat auditorium and state-of-the-art audiovisual equipment, this platform will be dedicated to innovation, research and development, and training, and will host companies from all areas of the healthcare, research, medical technology, pharmaceutical and biosciences industries.
Several partners have already made official their desire to join the Hub as early as spring 2024, by investing over 30 million Swiss francs...:
-AccurayAccuray® : World leader in high-precision radiotherapy, will use the Genolier Innovation Hub as a global training center, where customers can get hands-on training in advanced radiotherapy techniques from renowned specialists, using its CyberKnife® and Radixact® systems.
-Johnson & Johnson Innovation Supports innovation in the healthcare sector through investment in research and development, acquisitions, and collaboration with external partners who have an impact on patients' lives, and collaborates in the identification of start-ups with the Genolier Innovation Hub.
-Genolier Clinic Genolier Clinic: Offers personalized global care based on the latest advances in medical research, and will open a new oncology department equipped with Accuray's latest state-of-the-art equipment.
-General Electric Healthcare General Electric Healthcare: Offers a complete range of solutions designed to improve the diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of diseases, and will be opening a nuclear medicine department within the Hub.
-PhilipsPhilips: approaches medical care as a connected system, giving clinicians in the Hub's network the tools they need to make accurate diagnoses and provide personalized treatment. Philips is moving in on behalf of its customers to create a seamless flow of data that benefits all parties involved in healthcare.
- SFITSSFITS: Swiss Foundation for Innovation and Training in Surgery, a multidisciplinary platform, collaborates with the Hub to simulate real-life surgical training conditions in an innovative and educational way.
- IRCAD : TheInstitut de Recherche contre les Cancers de l'Appareil Digestif (Institute for Research into Cancer of the Digestive System ) offers an exceptional training environment, welcoming over 8,800 surgeons from all surgical specialties every year, and which will complement perfectly the training offer that the Genolier Innovation Hub wishes to make available.
- And much more besides...
Genolier Innovation Hub operates the entire site and also makes its facilities available for events and conferences, offering state-of-the-art services in a friendly setting. The Hub's central hub will be a vast 300-seat auditorium, equipped with a state-of-the-art audiovisual system. Among its remarkable features, LED walls will enable fully immersive, three-dimensional presentations. The diary is open - book your events from July 2024!
Angelo Eggli, CEO of Visana, explains: "The year 2024 will see the launch of two major projects in the Swiss healthcare sector: our VIVA system on 1st January and the opening of the Genolier Innovation Hub in the spring. It was therefore important for me to give my teams a 'sneak preview' of this place, as it embodies the values of innovation, progress and humanism that I wish to convey within our organization. "
About Visana
Visana is one of Switzerland's leading health and accident insurers. It offers compulsory health insurance (KVG/LAMal), supplementary and property insurance (VVG/LCA) and accident insurance (UVG/LAA). In all, Visana has around 837,500 private customers and 16,000 corporate customers. Visana employs around 1,400 people at its head office in Berne and in some 52 agencies throughout Switzerland. To find out more, visit www.visana.ch or follow us on Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram and YouTube.
About Genolier Innovation Hub SA
Genolier Innovation Hub is a future scientific and medical platform of over 25,000 m² open to international healthcare players in the fields of medtech, pharmacology, digital technologies and biosciences. With its mission of translational research, innovation development and presentation, and education, this Hub is intended to be a central location for the medical profession, start-ups in the launch phase, companies specializing in pharmacology, medtech and biosciences, hospitals, clinics and training institutions on a national and international level. This major project is taking shape, with construction due to start in June 2021 and the official opening scheduled for spring 2024. To see the construction progress live, you can click on the live-webcam. Find the Genolier Innovation Hubvideo, which is also available on the website and on LinkedIn.
About Swiss Medical Network
Swiss Medical Network is one of Switzerland's two leading private hospital and clinic groups. More than 2,300 doctors and 3,900 employees work in the 21 clinics and hospitals and over 60 outpatient centers, spread across 14 cantons and the country's three main language regions. The Group covers the entire medical spectrum, and operates both listed and contract hospitals. The facilities have a total of around 1,500 beds, and more than 67,000 surgical procedures are performed each year. Swiss Medical Network has been the majority shareholder of Hôpital du Jura bernois SA since 2021. Swiss Medical Network is a 90% (direct and indirect) subsidiary of AEVIS VICTORIA SA, listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange.
AboutAEVIS VICTORIA SA
AEVIS VICTORIA SA(AEVIS) invests in personal services, healthcare, hospitality, life sciences and lifestyle. AEVIS's main holdings are Swiss Medical Network SA (90%, directly and indirectly), the only private Swiss hospital network present in the country's three main linguistic regions; Victoria-Jungfrau AG, a hotel chain operating ten upscale hotels in Switzerland and abroad; Infracore SA (30%, directly and indirectly), a subsidiary dedicated to medical infrastructure and owner of the Genolier Innovation Hub building (for more information, visit www.infracore.ch), Swiss Hotel Properties SA, a real estate segment dedicated to hotels, and Nescens SA, a brand dedicated to prevention and better aging. AEVIS is listed on the Swiss Reporting segment of SIX Swiss Exchange (AEVS.SW). To find out more, visit www.aevis.com or follow us on LinkedIn.
