M3 | Smart Devices for Healthcare Professionals

Smart devices increasingly work alongside physicians and medical staff to perform repetitive and routine tasks reducing the physical and mental workload for medical personnel. This module provides physicians and hospital managers with an overview of current and future smart devices for hospitals. It discusses possible use cases and challenges participants to think about how and where they could add value in their workplace. The module encourages healthcare professionals to be innovators themselves by giving them the tools required to take the first steps on the path to a successful commercialisation of their ideas.

Smart machines increasingly work alongside physicians and medical staff to perform repetitive and routine tasks reducing the physical and mental workload for medical personnel. This module provides physicians and hospital managers with an overview of current and future smart machines for hospitals. It discusses possible use cases for smart machines and challenges the participants to think about how and where smart machines could add value in their workplace. Further, the module encourages healthcare professionals to be innovators themselves by giving them the tools required to take the first steps on the path to a successful commercialization of their idea.

• Overview and examples of medical robots and their intended uses
• Overview and examples of hospital robots and their application in clinics
• Important technology trends for medical devices: IoT, AI, AR/VR and 5G
• Medical innovators and entrepreneurs: understanding need and problem pathway
• Competitors and existing Solutions
• Insights into a high-tech medical start-up how to develop a technical solution to a real-world problem and a business model for scaling up

Agustin Gutierrez Galvez