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From 8 to 12 July, the second edition of the Digital Medical Devices summer school<\/a> took place on Campus Belval. Seventy participants from all over the world spent the week learning about \u201cdigital medical devices\u201d (DMDs): from medical-grade apps on your smartphone to wearable sensors in your watch or on your shoes, supporting home-monitoring and clinical decision. Always keeping the patients\u2019 needs in mind, they explored what these new technologies can do for users and medical professionals, how they should be developed and what challenges should be tackled to generate impact and value.

Between lectures and workshops, the young innovators had to come up with ideas for new devices addressing current healthcare needs. They are now ready for the second part of the programme: a week at the IESE Business School<\/a> in Barcelona, organised by Dr Montserrat Codina Pascual and Dr Shabs Rajasekharan of the IESE Center for Research in Healthcare Innovation Management<\/a>. There, the participants will discuss entrepreneurship and business models, to later successfully transfer innovation to personalised medicine and care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nA fruitful first edition<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The feedback on last year\u2019s edition was very positive and the outcome turned out to be more than a great learning experience for the participants. Two of them cofounded a healthcare start-up. Having met during the 2023 summer school for the first time, Martyna Jakubowska<\/a> and Mateusz Dworak<\/a> created AutoCast<\/a> to improve the treatment of diabetic foot patients. They develop specialised insoles equipped with stimulation technology and compatible off-loading orthoses designed to accelerate the wound healing process. \u201cOur entrepreneurial journey started last year during the Digital Medical Devices summer school, which prepared us well for the long road ahead, and our start-up has now won the first place at the Baltic Sea Region Health Innovation Award,\u201d points out Martyna Jakubowska.

Ricardo Polar<\/a>, another alumni of the summer school, is the CEO of Ping4All<\/a>, a Sport-HealthTech Company based in Luxembourg. Together with Mateusz Dworak and Spyridon Zormpas<\/a>, who also participated in the 2023 edition, they recently launched SharE4Elderly<\/a>, an Erasmus plus project to promote active living and adaptive sports for seniors across Europe. \u201cThe summer school gave us the opportunity to explore synergies between our respective countries and we are now sharing senior-friendly practices, engaging with stakeholders and training representatives from Poland, Greece and Luxembourg,\u201d details Ricardo Polar. \u201cOn top of tackling every aspect of the development of a DMD, the school contributes to building a network of health innovators across Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nLearning to create good innovations together<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

DMDs have an important role to play in healthcare as they enable data collection, empower patients, and facilitate their interactions with medical professionals. The possibilities are endless, but innovators must learn how to develop tools that are medically relevant, user-friendly and empowering. \u201cWhen a company wants to bring a new medication to the market, there are guidelines and a clear process to get there, through development studies and clinical validation trials,\u201d explains Prof. Jochen Klucken<\/a>, FNR PEARL Chair for Digital Medicine and coordinator of the summer school in Luxembourg. \u201cThis concept of evidence-based medicine is just starting for DMDs and we should strive to build this global framework, to make sure we develop and reimburse devices that are validated for being both safe and effective.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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