The UBORA e-infrastructure was officially presented at the Digital Infrastructure for Research DI4R conference, held at ISCTE University Institute in Lisbon on October 9th-11th, by Prof. Andrés Diaz Lantada.
The conference was jointly organized by EOSC-hub, GÉANT, OpenAIRE and PRACE, which are some of the most important EU e-infrastructure, and represented a moment for reflecting about the sustainability of these tools which promote collaboration in the EU research community and beyond.
The intense programme can be found here, and the abstract we presented can be downloaded at this link.
The end of September and beginning of October were intensive dissemination days.
On 28th, students and researchers of UBORA were protagonists of Bright, the Italian edition of the European research night, hosted by the booth of the Research Center E. Piaggio of University of Pisa, in Pisa. it was a nice moment for sensitizing people of the importance of accessibility to save medical devices, and how open source can contribute to this action.
During the same days, Pisa hosted also the International Robotic Festival 2018, one-week event focused on the applications and the impact of technologies, and robotics in particular, in the human being. Great importance was given medicine (robotic surgery, surgical simulation), and a special session was dedicated to the role of technologies on humanitarian cooperation.
The recently released UBORA e-infrastructure was presented to clinicians, who really appreciated the new “I have a needs” section, which can be the entry point for many of the design process of medical devices.
This conference session was a great opportunity for creating new contacts: Global Health Telemedicine is looking for affordable medical devices for the local point of care, and UBORA is ready for collaborating with them.
The UBORA Design School 2018 was held in the first week of September at the Conference Center Le Benedettine of University of Pisa, in Italy. More than 90 students, mentors, teachers and keynote speakers of 22 different nationalities from 4 continents animated the 5-days school on the design of open source medical devices.
Classes on design, legislation and prototyping, practical workshops on software and hardware enabling technologies were provided in the first three days of the school, while keynote speeches offered the opportunity to students to be inspired for their future careers.
The conference was articulated into 4 thematic sessions, focused on the recent developments on open source medical devices, on new methodologies for teaching collaborative biomedical engineering, on clinical needs in low resource settings and in high-income countries and on ethical problems introduced by new technologies in healthcare
During the Closing Ceremony of the conference, the preview of the UBORA e-infrastructure was presented by prof. Arti Ahluwalia, the UBORA coordinator.
Sudden Cardiac Arrest is a condition that causes more than 300000 deaths per year in EU and the USA. The release of a therapeutic dose of electrical energy is necessary in order to treat sudden cardiac arrest. The Open-Source Automated External Defibrillator analyses patient electrocardiograms combining the results of multiple algorithms in order to establish the condition of sudden cardiac arrest. Computer simulations show that the Open-Source Automated External Defibrillator is capable of detecting sudden cardiac arrest with sensitivity and specify higher that 90%.
In this context, UBORA gave its contribution presenting the paper “Open-Source Automated External Defibrillator” during the 6th National Congress of Bioengineering which was held on June 25th-27th in Milan.
The McGill Summer Institute in Infectious Diseases and Global Health is a summer conference offering multiple professional development non-credit courses. Each course showcases internationally renowned faculty, diverse participant groups and opportunity for networking and collaboration with McGill University, in Montreal, Canada.
Philippa Makobore from UIRI Presenting UBORA at the McGill Summer Institute on Infectious Diseases, Montreal, Canada, June 11th to 15th 2018
Philippa Makobore attended the one week session on Global Health Diagnostics that comprised of 450 international participants from about 50 countries that discussed topics including the state of diagnostic equipment in resource limited settings, WHO essential diagnostics list, novel point of care diagnostics and industry opinions. Philippa made a brief presentation in the UBORA project and the e-infrastructure during a pitching session for ideas and concepts.
Full board accommodation will be provided to projects ranked in the range 29-31, thanks to the scholarships provided by Protocentral and Bercella.
For the other projects, because they were nevertheless an excellent contribution, one team member will be invited to attend the Conference and the UBORA Design School, too.
Priority for enrollment will be given accordingly to the final ranking, up to a total of 40 participants.
However, we cannot provide any travel or accommodation costs: the team member has to provide his/her own expenses or request a travel bursary from their university.
All the participants will be personally contacted by our Management Office, for detailed instructions, regarding travel and accommodation.
Finally, we will invite ALL of you to participate in the UBORA e-infrastructure to further develop your projects, which will take you through the design, classification and fabrication process. You will be able to co-create with other designers with the help of mentors from industry and academia. We hope to count on you as pioneers for the design of safe and open medical devices to enable access to quality healthcare for all.
The main objective of the conference was to provide a high level dialogue with different stakeholders on how technology can enhance healthcare delivery, brainstorm on the issue of ICT technologies in particular those related to e-health, how to enhance usage of e-platforms in East Africa and what should be done to improve and strengthen ICT applications for health. The Clinical and Medical Equipment Assessment Study in Uganda under the UBORA project was presented under the theme: ‘technology and innovation in strengthening EAC partner states’ infrastructure and e-readiness for improved healthcare delivery’.
At the Special Workshop on Patient Safety in Ottawa on 3rd and 4th May, organized under the endorsement of IFMBE, the UBORA coordinator Arti Ahluwalia presented the benefits of open source design of medical devices: accessibility, sustainability, and improved performance and safety because everyone can review the design dossier. The use of open source approach and appropriate technologies can reduce the development cost of a medical device.
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