1st edition from October 1 to 26, 2024
Those were the Challenges in 2024
The ePA-App
Goal: To develop an app that highlights the benefits of electronic patient records (ePA) and convinces people to use them. A compelling “killer app” is needed—an application that is so advantageous and essential that it emphasizes the value of data sharing through ePA and helps it achieve a breakthrough.
Challenge Provider: Deggendorf Institute of Technology, Campus Bad Kötzting
Data Protection Board Game
Goal: Development of a board game that raises players‘ awareness of data protection issues relating to their health data. The game is designed to enable players to make informed decisions about how and to what extent health data is shared.
Challenge Provider: Deggendorf Institute of Technology, Faculty Computer Science
DiT-PROMS-App
Goal: Development of a user-friendly app to better record the quality of life (=patient reported outcome measurements) of patients after a hospital stay in order to better measure the functional, cognitive, and mental results after medical treatment. The app initiates the PROMS survey automatically and anonymously and includes features such as “serious gaming” to ensure long-term patient participation.
Challenge Provider: Caritas Hospital St. Josef Regensburg
Nursing Trolley 4.0
Goal: Development of a fully automated, digitized trolley in which the dispensing of care/dressing supplies is controlled via voice control (e.g., headset) using “no-touch” technology, with simultaneous digital documentation of consumables and subsequent automatic restocking of the trolley.
Challenge Provider: Caritas Hosptial St. Josef Regensburg
Mother-Child Jungle
Goal: Designing a target group-oriented solution for (expectant) parents that helps them keep track of their baby’s or toddler’s developmental milestones while reminding them of important early detection examinations and vaccinations and providing information about their children’s developmental milestones.
Challenge Provider: University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria
Talent Identifier
Goal: Develop an online tool called “Talent Identifier” that assesses the reliability, trustworthiness, and professional competence of applicants in the HealthTech sector within a few minutes. This tool should not only contain standardized questions, but also creative elements such as small challenges or interactive tasks that are specifically tailored to the interdisciplinary HealthTech sector.
Challenge Provider: Deggendorf Institute of Technology, Faculty Computer Science
VR-Training App
Goal: Design an effective VR-tool for healthcare professionals to train their soft skills such as effective communication, resistance to stress, conflict resolution, self-reflection, creativity or teamwork.
Challenge Provider: Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic
Visualising Wounds
Goal: Development of a tool called AIDA (AARU Injury Display Application) for traffic accident research, which displays the injuries of accident victims quickly, clearly, and vividly, so that even non-medical professionals can immediately see what has happened to the accident victims.
Challenge Provider: University Hospital Regensburg and Audi Accident Research Unit (AARU)