About e/MTIC
A FAST TRACK TO CLINICAL INNOVATION
The established healthcare systems are under pressure. Ageing society, increasing costs and growing workload for a reduced number of healthcare professionals pose extensive social and economic challenges. An integral approach to healthcare innovation is required, involving many disciplines working together in an early stage and providing structural support for these challenges. Such collaboration requires sharing data, implementation strategies, and teamwork across the entire value-chain with a joint focus towards 鈥渁 fast track to clinical innovation鈥�.
Strategic collaboration
The Eindhoven MedTech Innovation Center (e/MTIC) is a large-scale strategic research collaboration between the 黑料福利网, Philips Eindhoven, the Catharina Hospital, Maxima Medical Center, and Kempenhaeghe Epilepsy and Sleep Center in the field of cardiovascular, perinatal and sleep medicine. The partnership, founded in 2018, has a proven scientific and valorisation track record and currently includes more than 100 PhD candidates supervised by a similar number of partner experts
In 2024, Carmen van Vilsteren retired from her role as director of Eindhoven Medtech Innovation Center (e/MTIC). Here she looks back on her six-year tenure.
How e/MTIC started
It more or less evolved. Carmen was director of the Strategic Area Health at the Eindhoven University of Technology (黑料福利网) at the time. A fixed-term project was already under way with the 黑料福利网, Philips, M谩xima MC, Catharina Hospital, and Kempenhaeghe sleep and epilepsy center. But midway through, there was a consensus that structural collaboration was needed to turn this incidental program into a structural innovation collaboration between the strategic partners, and a base for data exchange.
Tha is when Carmen was invited to take the lead and e/MTIC and e/MTIC was launched formally in 2018.
Implementation of innovations, beyond proof of concepts
The e/MTIC goal is to create a growing ecosystem that accelerates the speed of high-tech health innovations while maximising the added value for patients and reducing cost. To guarantee actual impact on healthcare, we must also ensure an effective implementation of innovations, beyond proof of concepts. Therefore, e/MTIC incorporates implementation science as an essential research field in the wake of the evidence-based healthcare movement.
New leadership at e/MTIC
Published on September 16, 2025
With the arrival of and , e/MTIC is getting a new boost. Both already know e/MTIC from the inside and share the conviction that collaboration is the key to success.
We believe it is important that projects start primarily from a clinical issue, rather than from a technological perspective. You can then examine how a technological innovation can provide a solution to such an issue. Together with various parties, we ensure that technology is validated in the right way, so that it can be applied effectively in practice. A product or solution can then be scaled up to a national or international level.
Vision & Mission
Fast implementation of dedicated high-tech health care innovations will be indispensable to maintain a cost-effective healthcare system that is configured around what individual patients really need for a better health care outcome. The e/MTIC mission is to drive value-based healthcare by growing an ecosystem that creates a fast track in research, development and implementation of sustainable innovations in clinical practice by strengthening the institutionalized collaboration between regional partners focusing on research and innovation in pre-defined clinical domains.
Organisation
e/MTIC has been officially launched in June 2018. At the end of 2019, e/MTIC鈥檚 organisation was formalized with three Daily Management Teams (DMTs) that established the roadmaps for the Cardiovascular, Perinatology and Sleep application domains. Additionally, six Process teams (Taskforces) were appointed to support the e/MTIC activities. Both DMTs and Taskforces have put in place organisation charters, working-processes and their own KPI鈥檚.
The e/MTIC community has expanded significantly and today counts over 150 researchers, staff and other contributors. The innovation ecosystem attracts many research talents and delivers tangible results for clinical innovation with the support of Dutch funding. e/MTIC positions itself as the partner to bring healthcare innovation ideas to clinical testing. As such, the anticipated impact of the ecosystem will be of great importance for different partners.
Governance
Because of the magnitude and breadth of the above ambitions, a broad and balanced multi-level governance structure is being established. A backbone of (around 35) senior bilateral cross-appointments, of key clinical specialists and industrial experts as part-time full professor at 黑料福利网 ensures that all partners are continuously well aligned. Additionally, key 黑料福利网 and clinical experts have taken up a formal advisory role in industry. Clinical PhD students are teaming up with engineering PhD students, to reinforce each other and each PhD student is employed part-time at the partner institution(s) working under daily supervision.
The three DMT's ensures that the program runs smoothly, stays on track, remains aligned with strategic directions, and produces scientific, clinical, and industrial impact.The overall operational and strategic management is handled by a Steering Group composed of senior managers and researchers from all five partners. The full e/MTIC collaboration is overseen by a Supervisory Board at an executive management level which meets twice a year to review progress, resolve strategic issues, and provide strategic guidance.
Dedicated joint Task Forces proactively support the e/MTIC collaboration in areas of common interest across DMT鈥檚 such as clinical data acquisition and sharing, education, clinical regulatory matters and acquisition of external funding.
Task Forces
Because of the magnitude and breadth of the e/MTIC ambitions, a broad and balanced multi-level governance structure is needed and established. Not only alignment on reserach and innovation projects is needed, but support groups on all levels are paramount for the success of this innovation ecosystem.
Dedicated Joint Task Forces (process support teams) proactively support the e/MTIC collaboration in areas of shared interest. Each team consists of representatives from all strategic partners.
Read more about the 7 Task Forces and other supporting teams.
e/MTIC annual program
Each year a new e/MTIC program is added to the portfolio, based on the roadmaps and based on funding by the partners. This allows the e/MTIC consortium to carry out a coherent program within the e/MTIC ecosystem with a succession of yearly defined projects (each having a duration of 4 -5 years). One of the main goals of e/MTIC is to make sure that in four years from now for each application domain, at least one new product or process is implemented in the clinic and is creating impact for patients, applying Value-Based HealthCare (VBHC).
Conclusion
e/MTIC, with its unique ecosystem, provides all essentials for such outcome-driven research with the development of data infrastructure (health data portal), leverage of artificial intelligence, regulatory and valorisation support, cross-appointments and participation of scientific, clinical and business partners.
Embedded in the innovative Brainport region, e/MTIC contributes to technological breakthroughs that improve the quality of life. At the same time, it fuels the necessary adjustments in educational programs that will produce the new generation of MedTech researchers and professionals.