12:45 – 14:00 Lunch Break (Lunch in the large Assembly Hall)

14:00 Moderation & Welcome Address

Moderator Florian Aigner (AT), Physicist, Science Explainer & Book Author
Florian Aigner is a physicist, scientist  and author. He works as a science editor at the Vienna Technical University and writes as a freelance journalist for numerous media. Among other things, he has written the Austrian science book of the year 2018.
Welcome Barbara Stadler (DE), European Region Danube-Vltava and Jakob Doppler (AT), Academic Director Master Digital Healthcare, Co-Director Center for Digital Health Innovation, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences

14:15 Keynote – Medical Device Innovation at MIT
Brian Anthony (US), Associate Director MIT.nano, Co-Director of the Medical Electronic Device Realization Center & Director, Master of Engineering in Manufacturing Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The vision of MEDRC (Medical Electronic Device Realization Center) is to transform the medical electronic device industries: to revolutionize medical diagnostics and treatments, bringing health care directly to the individual; and to create enabling technology for a information-driven healthcare system. The MEDRC establishes partnerships among industry, medical professionals, and MIT to collaboratively achieve improvements in the cost and performance of medical electronic devices. The successful realization of such a vision demands innovations in the usability and productivity of medical devices, and new technologies and approaches to manufacture devices. We will explore examples in ultrasound imaging and novel medical sensors.

14:45 MedTech meets EdTech – The Rise of a Hidden Austrian Champion
Klaus Müller (AT/US), CEO of 123 Meducine and 123 Sonograpy
123meducine is the leading online-platform in medical education for ultrasound and echocardiography.  The company produces film-quality educational content with hundreds of 5-star reviews from customers around the world. The team of 30 employees is lead by founder Dr. Thomas Binder, University Professor for Cardiology and Internal Medicine, and former Google-Manager DI Klaus Müller. 123meducine is working to extend its educational programs to other medical fields across to its more than 400,000 users based in over 200 countries. The vision of 123meducine is to make medical education increasingly accessible to international medical professionals and to strengthen and facilitate Austria’s position in the growing market of medical e-learning.

15:05 Algorithms and Decision Support Systems for Detecting Diseases and Indicators for HIV screening
Kristjan Krass (EST), Cofounder Diagnostic Match
Kristjan co-founded Diagnostic Match, to come up with a better way to identify patients who are at risk for contracting HIV. They do this with an algorithm that analyzes patients’ health data and looks for HIV indicator diseases that shows doctors, which patients are in the risk group and need testing. They are currently leading the first Estonian HIV risk group based clinical research study in cooperation with 12 public health organizations and includes more than 124,000 patients. Kristjan Krass has a pharmaceutical background and moved into healthcare and IT.

15:20 Break

15:35 Challenges in the Development of a Feeling Prosthesis
Rainer Schultheis, CEO, Saphenus Medical Technology
Rainer Schultheis is co-founder and CEO of Saphenus. He achieved a spot in Austrias Top 100 entrepreneurs 2018 according to the “Gewinn” magazine. Before that he was a science journalist in the Austrian Broadcasting Company (ORF) for over 20 years. The Lower Austrian Startup Saphenus unites medical, sensor engineering and mechanical expertise including business and management capacities at international level. Interdisciplinary approaches require special networks. Saphenus found them easily in Austria to help develop a feeling prosthesis.

15:50 – 17:00  Student Pitch Presentations (~8 min each)

Students pitch presentations from the the European Region Danube-Vltava & St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences Showreel

• PAR®OT: Call Me By Your Need – A healthcare professional calling system which reduces noise, stress and alarm fatigue
  Alexander Mantler, Monika Dumanic
  + Team: Alexander Vollmer, Stefan Noestlinger, Stephan Pokorny, Julia Puerstinger and Markus Schimanko
  After sparking the idea of improving the conventional nurse call button in hospitals, we developed a prototype of a smart and affordable nurse call system. Imagine being a patient in a hospital with only one option to express your needs. A single button to push that activates an alarm. There is no information attached to that alarm. Your request is not specified nor triaged. Every alarm must be handled as an emergency. This is where PAR®OT comes into play. A web browser-based application to handle your individual request. Are you in pain, thirsty, or do you simply need assistance to go to the bathroom? Just use PAR®OT to let your healthcare professional know. No shrill alarms, no unnecessary disturbances. Your healthcare professional gets notified about your request and may respond instantly. The additional information to the request helps to improve the daily routine and promotes your health and necessities. Additionally, every request is documented and traceable.
• Dr. BellyWell: keep your belly well – How we plan to achieve adequate support in the pre- and postoperative care of gastric bypass patients
  Janina Gonaus, Christoph Kamp
  + Team: Annika Ullrich, Rene Kainz and Simon Stroehle
  Dr. BellyWell is an application which utilizes a voice activated speech interface (Amazon Alexa). Natural language processing assists patients before and after receiving gastric bypass surgery. The focus is on giving those patients valuable information before their scheduled intervention and to primarily support their recovery after the surgery. Dr. BellyWell monitors the users’ progress, reacts accordingly and informs the user to change his or her eating behavior. Or in extreme cases, gives advice to the user to contact his or her physician. Additionally to gastric bypass patients, there are further groups who can benefit from using Dr. Bellywell. Doctors, therapists and insurance groups will be able to profit from adequate care of gastric bypass patients.
• FallTec: Using a Wearable Sensor to Reduce Fall Risk for Patients with Dementia
  David Kollmitzer, Elias Matousek
  + Team: Isabel Kächele, Philipp Köcher and Jürgen Maureder
  Falls of elderly people represent a major healthcare problem. Many fall detection systems are already available, but there is a lack of systems which focus on prevention. The primary goal of FallTec is to prevent patients with dementia from falling by monitoring and identifying high-fall-risk patients via sensor-based gait analysis. Using this information, healthcare professionals can intervene earlier. In the end, this leads to a higher well-being for patients and relieves the healthcare system. Be excited about the presentation of our self-designed prototype and web-application.
• GIS in Primary Health Care (PHC): improving remote monitoring in rural communities
  Jessica Ortiz (Technische Hochschule Deggendorf)
  + Team: Anna Marquardt
  When planning public health campaigns or responding to disease outbreaks, health organizations need information on where intended beneficiaries live, as well as real-time insights from the field in much of the world, information from the most recent census is often out of date, and timely insights from remote communities are scarce. Healthcare mapping and Geographic Information System (GIS), have become an essential tool in health care decision making It informs policy makers and health professionals about the spatial distribution and patterns of health-related epidemiology and their underlying relationships to populations. Understanding your community helps identify the services patients and country need. With GIS in PHC, vulnerable populations can be visualized, community resources identified, disease surveillance enabled, and community stakeholders connected.
• KARLI – Kidfriendly Augmented Reality Learning Interface – Learn about the human body by having a look inside!
  Michael Andorfer, Mariella Seel
  + Team: Patrick Knogler, Anna-Maria Lienhart and Johannes Panzenboeck
  People are forced to make health-related decisions throughout their whole life – often without even knowing the essentials for dealing with such meaningful topics. We believe that having basic knowledge about the human body and its functions is crucial for maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Therefore, growing health literacy starts at the youngest age – and this is where KARLI comes into play! Developed to suit the requirements of primary school teaching & learning and designed to empower children, we want to equip kids with the most important facts about their body – starting with a deeper look into anatomy by using our AR app for exploring the human heart!
• STaRT – bringing rehabilitation into your living room (only at the booth)
  Almesberger Marcel, Wiesinger Sarah
  Telerehabilitation can be a new approach to support the therapy of patients with functional and mental disabilities. This topic is nowadays mentioned a lot in the media and is also discussed in politics. The chance of real implementations is getting higher and higher. In this project we want to test an already developed telerehabilitation platform called UMBRELLO. We want to define new use cases for this platform and evaluate these use-cases with test subjects.