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Florine Bruns
Senior Communications Manager
Forte Health combines strategic consulting, digital implementation, and the development of scalable solutions for healthcare market players. The focus is on concrete results: more efficient processes, integrated patient journeys, and higher commercial effectiveness through the targeted use of data, technology, and AI.
With Forte Health, the partners pool their respective strengths: the reach and health expertise of the Wort & Bild Media and Publishing Group, the market and ecosystem expertise of Isartal Health Media, and the technology and transformation expertise of Forte.
The subsidiary Develop HealthTech, part of Isartal Health Media, will become Forte Health. Forte is contributing its existing healthcare market business to the joint venture. This includes clients such as BIOTRONIK, DRK Kliniken Berlin, and Labor Berlin.
Since the beginning of the year, new clients such as Korian and Medudy have already been acquired together. Management will be handled by Darius Niroumand, Managing Director of Forte and Flying Health, and Viktor Hettich, Managing Director of Develop HealthTech.
Viktor Hettich, Darius Niroumand, Falk Miekley, Andreas Arntzen (f.l.t.r.); Photo: W&B/Markus Braumann
Statements on the Founding of Forte Health
Falk Miekley, Managing Director of Isartal Health Media:
"The Wort & Bild Publishing Group is consistently evolving from a leading health media house into an integrated health platform provider. With strong partners, we are specifically expanding our ecosystem and creating new offerings that sustainably address the increasing need for information and orientation in the healthcare market."
Darius Niroumand, Managing Director of Forte and Flying Health:
"Forte Health bundles our competencies in the healthcare market and brings them into a scalable model. Our focus is on using technology, data, and AI in a way that generates measurable impact within organizations across processes, communication, and business models."
Forte Health creates a joint setup that combines market access, implementation skills, and technological excellence, thereby establishing the foundation for sustainable growth and innovation in healthcare.
The announcement of the joint venture took place during a cooperative networking event at DMEA (Europe's leading trade fair for digital health), held once again in the rbb-Dachlounge. With more than 200 participants, the event was a complete success. Under the theme "Success is only possible as a team," the importance of a strong network and a functioning ecosystem was highlighted, impressively underscoring the central idea of the merger.
As the strategic investment arm of the Wort & Bild Media and Publishing Group, Isartal Health Media bundles all majority holdings of the media group. It acts as a strategic investor focusing on health startups to shape a diverse health ecosystem within the media group. IHM acts as an active partner and central interface for its holdings. it links the versatile portfolio with the reach and trust of Wort & Bild Verlag to create digital health solutions.
Forte is an international digital consultancy that combines strategy, experience, and technology into effective digital solutions, realizing measurable added value and sustainable growth. With specialized expertise in Digital Health, Media & Publishing, and Retail & E-Commerce, Forte develops scalable services for complex markets.
Founded in 2017 in Oslo, Forte is currently represented at seven locations in Europe and employs around 350 people in Norway, Poland, Germany, and Denmark. The Berlin office has served as the hub for Central Europe since 2022.
Forte unites strategic consulting, user-centered design, and data- and AI-driven technology development in interdisciplinary teams to transform processes and specifically increase digital value creation. Clients include Charité, DRK Kliniken Berlin, Labor Berlin, Audi, the Bauer Media Group, and the Wort & Bild Media and Publishing Group.
The Wort & Bild Media and Publishing Group, based in Baierbrunn near Munich, is the leading provider of health media in Germany. Its brands stand for high editorial quality, serious and independent journalism, and high popularity among users. As a partner to pharmacies, the focus is always on high health utility and expert advice within the pharmacy setting. Wort & Bild Verlag publishes Apotheken Umschau, ELTERN, Diabetes Ratgeber, Senioren Ratgeber, Ärztlicher Ratgeber, medizini, and HausArzt-PatientenMagazin. Current podcasts and video formats explain important health topics. The publisher also produces a book series on health and nutrition topics. The company reaches over 19 million users monthly across print and online. Isartal Ventures, Isartal Health Media, and 720 Health Media are companies of the Wort & Bild Verlagsgruppe.
Learn more: Forte Health Powerhouse
