EIT Health KIC
Munich Innovation Roadshow 8th-9th May 2015
Requests and Offers for Collaboration
1. Organisation: Air Liquide/ Industry Partner/ Paris, France
Contacts: Christopher Cala and Marc Lemaire
Areas of interest: Digital Health Solutions in Multi-Morbidity Management and
Prevention
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Collaborations on the development of connected devices to improve the
exchange of data and thus the interoperability of software and hardware.
Would like to work with public institutions, especially NHS trusts and
CCGs, on the use and commissioning of interoperable innovation
platforms and devices. Would also like to collaborate with cohorts of
SMEs.
Working particularly on: drug delivery; diagnostics; medical devices;
nutrition; data analytics, fusion and clinical usage.
Existing expertise in: Metabolics, COPD, diabetes, Parkinson’s, medical
devices in the home, data fusion.
2. Organisation: Nofer Institute/ Applied Research/ Lodz, Poland
Contact: Mikolaj Gurda
Areas of Interest: Occupation Medicine
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Collaborations request to address poor health relating to indices of
multiple deprivation, particularly social, cultural and economic. Currently
working on health inequalities.
Would like to know more about the living labs in the West Midlands,
especially those where the above issues are prevalent.
Looking at older people’s as well as the whole-life cycle health,
particularly relating to the adult age population.
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3. Organisation: University of Barcelona/ University/ Spain
Contact: Montse(rrat) Cruz
Areas of Interest: Community-based integrated care; wellness and
prehabilitation using ICT; visual life-logging with digital innovations.
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UoB would like to explore the above areas in relation to: cancer,
telemedicine, rare anaemias, biomarkers and nutrition, with companies
and NHS departments with these specialisms.
4. Organisation: Frauenhofer Instituet/ Applied Research/ Erlangen, Germany
Contact: Thomas Norgall
Areas of interest: Ambient assisted living. Particular request for clinical
biomechanics collaborations.
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Request for collaborations in monitoring and analysis of gait and motion
for stroke rehabilitation. Would particularly like industry collaborations.
5. Organisation: Stockholm City Council/ Local Authority/ Sweden
Contacts: Maria Soederlund (Healthcare) and Carl Smitterberg (Health and
Social Care)
Areas of Interest: Healthcare and health and social care public services
provision.
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Seeking better collaborations with industry partners in developing
solutions to aid health and health and social care delivery.
Areas of particular interest include: whole-life informatics, preventative
health solutions, care transitions between primary and acute settings, and
the standardization and flexibility of solutions for care (especially with
reference to digital and systemic interoperability).
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6. Organisation: Stockholm City Council/ Local government/ Sweden
Contact: Marina Taloyan
Areas of Interest: Preventative health solutions throughout the health and
social care, and primary and acute care pathways, i.e. integrated care. Registers
and big data.
Requests and Offers:
Digital solutions to improving integrated care pathways. Collaborations on
integrated care protocols and business models.
7. Organisation: Karolinska Institutet/ Applied Research/ Stockholm, Sweden
Contact: Kristina Johnell
Areas of Interest: Quality and safety in drug use in order to help people through
patient- centred ICT solutions.
Requests and Offers:
Drug delivery optimization. KI has already developed a product which has
reached the Swedish market. The product helps physicians to prescribe the
correct combination of drugs for patients with multi-morbidities, minimizing
effectiveness and minimizing side-effects and counteraction. The institute is
looking to partner healthcare providers and public healthcare testbeds in other
countries to fine-tune their product and make it available to other markets.
8. Organisation: The Institute of Biomechanics, Valencia/ Applied Research/
Spain
Contact: Javier Ferris
Areas of Interest: Digital health and engineering, particularly in therapeutics,
occupational health, co-creation tools and online platforms.
Requests and Offers:
IBV has several project offerings on the table, at present:
Simplit- Co-creation tool for businesses and service users. This is a digital tool
that integrates researcher expertise from the institute. IBV would like to adapt it
to help patients in different countries and of diverse demographics.
Man-Made- This has grown out of a FP7 project. The initiative focuses on
occupational health and adapting the workplace to integrate complementary
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leisure, nutritional and exercise-based activities. This is not designed for a
particular age-group or demographic in mind, but IBV would like to explore how
it could be used in preventative health solutions and applied to the older
workforce/ silver economy.
Intelligent Motion Analysis- This project comprises therapies for musculoskeletal conditions. It is essentially an ICT tool to measure conditions and
recommend treatments. IBV would like to partner hospitals to trial and test it,
especially in rehabilitation departments.
Online Platform for Medical Implants PersonalisationSleep Screenings. Measuring sleep and prescribing sleep solutions, including
solutions for dementia and sleep apnea.
(See further information from Javier Ferris, attached.)
9. Organisation: Siemens/ Industry/ Erlangen, Germany
Contact: Leandro Burns
Areas of Interest: Open innovation in healthcare. Entrepreneurial spirit
programme for healthcare.
Requests and Offers:
Siemens would like a co-creational education programme linking industry to
public services and end-users. They are mostly interested in the connected
health economy and the living labs of the West Midlands, as well as the health
and entrepreneurship ideas being developed at universities within the region
who have already put forward projects in the education project EOI round.
10. Organisation: Sanofi/ Industry. Paris, France
Contact: Jean-Marc Bourez
Areas of Interest: e-Health and Big Data. Current Big Data activity is
particularly around oncology, diabetes and corporate wellness.
Requests and Offers:
Sanofi is currently conducting work on research and clinical applications in the
use of base data, data-visualisation and biomarkers. It has a great deal of
expertise in e-health and tools, sensors and mobile health. It seeks collaborative
partners with hospitals, research institutes and clinical study units, in particular,
academic-based partnerships. Sanofi would be a very good partner to
collaborate with on illness prevention and reduction in relation to occupational
health and issues around behaviour change and metabolics, stress, sleep,
smoking, quality of life in the workplace and nutrition.
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11. Organisation: The University of Copenhagen/ Denmark
Contact: Suresh Kumar
Areas of Interest: Health and business education collaborations with other
universities and industry.
(Need further information from SK)
12. Organisation: ATOS/ Industry/ Madrid, Spain
Contact: Pedro Soria-Rodriguez
Areas of Interest: Cybersecurity and electronic identity
Requests and Offers:
Collaboration on the development of security techniques and solutions applied
to various healthcare sectors. Current areas of expertise include: data analytics;
the internet of things; sensor networks; systems security; data security;
metadata; privacy protection for personal data; patient health records;
interchange of data between hospitals; and secure device to device
communication. ATOS is interested in possible collaborations between primary
and acute care organisations, and developing relationships with the
cybersecurity clusters in the West Midlands.
13. Organisation: RISE/ Industry/ Sweden
Contact: Albin Andersson
Areas of Interest: Patient- centred service innovation.
Requests and Offers:
RISE is interested in developing healthy ageing responses and solutions that
equalise the relationships between patients and clinicians through the cocreation of healthy living approaches. It is particularly interested in the WM
region’s living labs for future work around Type 2 diabetes and other long-term
conditions. It would also like to explore the ‘public procurement of health
innovations’ space, to understand where and how co-creation could influence the
purchase of better and more appropriate patient care solutions.
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14. Organisation: Nuffield Health/ Industry/ Oxford, England
Contact: Ben Kelly
Areas of Interest: Digital health and, in particular, data, long-term conditions
management, exercise management and monitoring, and the employment of
health psychology solutions.
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Nuffield is interested in health, nutrition, exercise and wellness, and particularly
the whole-life and holistic approach to keeping active and well. It is also
interested in issue of patient safety and the physical and psychological aspects of
this. Ben expressed interest in our the living labs and patient safety
collaborative work.
15. Organisation: University of Evora/ Portugal
Contact: David Mendes
Areas of Interest: Smart health and smart living environments; interoperability
of software and hardware; the internet of things; computational linguistics and
semantics relating to communicating across languages and cultures; and
artificial intelligence.
Requests and Offers:
The University of Evora is currently engaged with IBM in developing
technologies that help to direct patients/ service-users and their carers to
managing the former’s community, primary and acute care needs. Those with
health needs and those look after them are able to communicate despite different
languages and cultural norms, and carers are also able to take the right actions
when health problems are detected by them or by the bespoke AI set-up of the
patient. Evora and IBM are developing a health-based Watson (IBM’s super
computer system) and would like to partner living labs/ communities, health
and social care organisations, and primary and acute trusts, in the UK to develop
solutions for particular UK communities.
16. Organisation: Erasmus MC/ University/ Rotterdam, Netherlands
Contact: Menno Kok
Areas of Interest: Better healthier and longer living before conception.
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Requests and Offers:
Erasmus Medical Centre is offering collaborations to other European countries to
trial, test and implement a lifestyle programme for people who are planning to
have children. The programme has achieved clinical success in the birth of
healthy babies and a rise in successful IVF treatments. EMC is looking to partner
hospitals, clinics and universities to address the clinical guidelines, procurement
and socio-cultural issues around the programme and how it may be
implemented successfully in the UK.
17. Organisation: University of Aberystwyth/ Wales
Contact: John Draper and Marco Arkesteijn
Areas of Interest: Nutrition and exercise for healthy living and healthy ageing.
Requests and Offers:
Prof. John Draper has forwarded the following information and is happy for
WMAHSN members to use it. However, he asks that it be kept confidential
beyond the immediate network and, thus, it cannot be used for wider
circulation at this time.
Aberystwyth is a leading international specialist in nutritional sciences and
would like to work with test beds to assess the utility and health care community
interest in:
(1) Integration of urine biomarkers in stratification of vulnerable individuals
(a) A test of personal 'metabotype' to determine an individuals' metabolic
phenotype and particularly how their endogenous metabolism and their gut
microbiome interact with key dietary components, dietary supplements and
prescribed pharmaceuticals.
(b) A test of dietary exposure, using biomarkers to assess the healthiness of diet
or even malnutrition in vulnerable individuals.
Metabolic phenotype alters with age as diet and behaviours change, but
understanding how far down in the aging trajectory an individual has progressed
is difficult. The first of these tests would be aimed at stratifying, particularly
vulnerable members, of a population to allow more precise recommendations
with regard to overall nutrition and medication. The second test would help to
develop a personalised diet for particularly vulnerable individuals being looked
after by different health care organisations, or nursing homes or supported at
home by community services.
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For both of these projects there is interest from other CLCs (Spain, France,
Benelux and Scandinavia) as well as InnoStars but having a UK activity is highly
desirable. A key aspect of the strategy is to build on the progress Aber has made
in current MRC Programme Grant in obtaining informative spot urines from
home environment; these methods offer scope to bring biomarker technology
into the community-based health decision making. There is additional interest
in developing SMEs to carry out such diagnostic services.
(2) Development of a pan-EU ‘pipeline’ to validate efficacy of functional foods
to support an aging populations
Diet has a major impact on wellbeing, apart from simply providing nutrients.
Aber has several partners in place and emerging support from the Welsh
government to integrate functional foods containing established bioactives into
the diet of individuals at risk of, or, in early stages of developing CHCs. With a
large investment in Analytical Chemistry Technology (> £10 M) , a £4 M
Biorefining Centre and a £5 M Future Food Centre in Aberystwyth Innovation
and Enterprise Campus the university is developing an SME network dedicated
to ‘fortifying’ initially oat food products (e.g. smoothies, porridge and oat bars)
with plant concentrates or extracts containing combinations of natural
compounds that have already been show in structured clinical trials to impact
for example on Alzheimer’s, T2DM, CVD, IBS and satiety. [ This project would
interact with the dietary exposure and metabotyping projects mentioned above]
What would be of particular interest are interactions with partners, such as
WMAHSN members, able to validate in pilot studies the impact of these new
foods on wellbeing and CHC progression/amelioration in a real community
setting with established cohorts of potentially vulnerable individuals. We
would wish to be able to measure functional food impact on for example
cognitive, metabolic, cardiovascular and alimentary wellbeing characteristics. In
the longer term we need to have healthcare economists able to project the
impact (financial and stress on NHS and Social Services) of any validated dietary
intervention on maintaining individuals able to live independently for longer in
their own home or to have reduced needs if in long term care. There is a
particular interest also in developing a dialogue with government authorities
involve in legislation surrounding food labelling to create a much larger market
for functional foods ‘winning’ a health promoting label. One project concept is a
demonstration project involving several CLCs across the EU to develop the SOPs
for functional food testing and approval. Apart from food products and markets
for functional foods, a key output would be the development of new working
practices within community health care systems.
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