MoniDose and Business Tampere: a free MoniDoseQMS pilot for the region’s health-tech companies

MoniDose Oy and Business Tampere, the economic development agency of the Tampere city region, have agreed a pilot programme that gives health-technology companies in the Business Tampere ecosystem free access to MoniDoseQMS.

What the programme offers

Every participating company gets the full MoniDoseQMS platform – over 130 integrated quality modules covering document control, risk management, CAPA, design controls, clinical work and post-market surveillance, with EU MDR, FDA QMSR, ISO 13485 and the EU AI Act built in.

Companies under one year old get MoniDoseQMS free for six months – long enough to build a real quality system alongside product development. Established companies get a free 60-day pilot, long enough to migrate real quality work and evaluate the fit properly.

The pilot carries no obligation. It exists to let each company judge whether the platform suits its needs. Continuing after the pilot is a separate decision made by the company alone.

How it works

Business Tampere acts as the programme’s enabler and communicator: companies in its health-tech ecosystem tell Business Tampere they want in, and Business Tampere passes the participating companies to MoniDose. Each company then signs its own service agreement directly with MoniDose covering its free period.

Business Tampere takes no part in sales, pricing or commercial negotiations, and the pilot commits nobody to anything beyond trying the platform.

Why it matters

The Tampere region is home to one of Finland’s strongest health-technology concentrations – from university spin-offs to established device manufacturers. A quality system is where every one of those companies eventually stands or falls in front of a regulator, and the earlier it exists, the cheaper it is to build well. That is precisely the gap this programme closes: quality built in from day one, at zero cost during the phase where budgets are tightest.

What this says about the dispenser

MoniDoseQMS is not a separate side product. It is the same system MoniDose uses to build its own medication dispenser as a Class I medical device under EU MDR 2017/745 – document control, risk management, CAPA and deviation handling in one traceable whole.

From the point of view of a wellbeing services county’s procurement or an investor, that is a checkable fact rather than a promise: the quality system exists, it is used every day, and it is mature enough that the region’s economic development agency is opening it to other health-tech companies in the area.

How to join

Companies in the Business Tampere health-tech ecosystem – and those that want to be – can join through the interest form on the MoniDoseQMS pilot page. Programme details and the form are on the MoniDoseQMS news page.

The programme was announced on 26 August 2026. Sources: [MoniDoseQMS](https://monidoseqms.com/news/business-tampere-partnership) and [Business Tampere](https://businesstampere.com/en/).