PrimCareIT Counteracting brain drain and professional isolation of health professionals in remote primary health care through tele-consultation and tele-mentoring to strengthen social conditions in remote BSR. http://www.primcareit.net EU Baltic Sea Region Programme 2007-2013 (BSR INTERREG IVB), http://eu.baltic.net/ 2009-2012 (ongoing) PROJECT SUMMARY The Baltic Sea Region (BSR) is confronted with an ageing population, which leads to a rising demand for primary...
In the VINNOVA call for “Challenge Driven Innovation – Project form B”, a consortium of BTH, KTH, Blekinge and Stockholm County Councils, and RxEye got the project “More effective analysis within medical imaging using collaboration based on networking structure” approved. Project abstract Medical imaging is facing major challenges. The demographic and geographic structure needs to be addressed with new approaches...
School of Health held October 27-28 a workshop at BTH to find needs and opportunities for collaboration between Blekinge Institute of Technology and Linköping University within the field of Applied Health Technology. The workshop was aimed as an event to exchange information on ongoing activities, and to make a common external analysis of present and future needs and opportunities in applied health technology, focusing on the theme “Health and Technology for all”. They also wanted to find different interaction points in the existing projects anddiscuss the starts of new joint projects. Participants worked creatively in order...
Innovations meet people. Design for Wellbeing redirects the focus of product development from technology-based development, via needs-based development, to participative product innovation. 2004- (ongoing) PROJECT SUMMARY The main objective of the Design for Wellbeing initiative is to enhance the wellbeing of persons with motion, sensory and cognitive disabilities by using their descriptions of needs in relation to assistive devices as...
