Social distancing and teleworking has become the goal overwhelming personal and professional ambitions in nowadays. As ATHIKA consortium follows the hottest topics in healthcare sectors promoting advanced training in Health Innovation Knowledge Alliance, the latest outbreak of Coronavirus pandemic takes the central focus. The new coronavirus disease (COVID-19), which first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan last December, has infected countries and territories globally, according to the World Health Organization.
 

As part of the prevention and control measures of the health alert for the COVID-19 the on-site activity at the La Salle-URL Campus has been stopped, but not the education activity. The on-site activity is being carried out online, through the internet, to not interrupt the education process, which is the main commitment of La Salle-URL to its students. Find out more…
 

The European Commission, led by the European Innovation Council and in close collaboration with the EU member states has hosted a pan-European The EUvsVirus Hackathon to develop innovative solutions for coronavirus-related challenges on 24, 25 and 26 April.

In collaboration with private and public partners from Europe and beyond, the organizers have awarded 117 out of 2160 solutions. The winner team of the challenge domain Health & Life has been announced “Team Discover”.

They have developed a solution that enables a highly scalable patient monitoring system that minimizes physical contact between nurses and patients, which also leads to smaller shortage of protective gear. Instead of occasional visits, such device measures vital parameters real-time and uploads each patient’s data into a central server. With the help of the dashboard, doctors and nurses can oversee hundred times more patients, while our automatic alert functionalities make it possible to diagnose deteriorating cases instantly and to reach quicker reaction times.