We have just had the is the Health Hack Weekend (May 17-19) with speakers, networking and a 24 hour hackathon with new innovations in mobile health, self
tracking and other solutions related to healthcare, selfcare or wellness.
The winners of Health Hack Day 2013:
1:st - Better Kay - digital tools for digital women with incontinence by Adam Scheuring and Christiana Chae
2:nd - Adherence - digital service where patients and families can follow up medication BY Alex Ma
3:rd - Right Angle - Rehab means to easily measure mobility by Chen Rui, Tommy Hinks, Jerker Skogby, Björn Nutti
Together with the Digital Health Days conference in August we are creating an arena for
setting the future healthcare agenda. The best contributions from the hackathon will be presented to an international audience with
panel discussions around the impact of the solutions and they will be displayed during the whole event in the main hall.
The Youtube channel with talks and pitches from the event: youtube.com/user/HealthHackDay
Neuroscience Entrepreneur
Kelly is an entrepreneur specialized on the development of individual expertise. He focuses on the fact that digital tools and innovations of significance will be those emerged out of a deeper understanding of the human brain. Together with his colleague Fredrik Ullén, Professor at the Department of Cognitive Neuroscience at the Karolinska institute, Kelly develops methods and systems for supporting development of human expertise. They focus on specific brain activity behind individual states of high productivity, efficiency and high goal achievement. Kelly has worked for the Swedish government as an advisor for the Department of Education and Culture. During the last ten years he has developed sales-techniques and business models based on a a neuroscientific perspective, in multinational companies like Manpower, Telenor and nowadays - law firms.
Selfcare Entrepreneur
Founder of Unfrazzle, and a former NASA scientist with degrees from Princeton, Stanford and Columbia with experience leading innovation for Apple, Adobe, Interval Research and Symbol. A board member of the Family Caregiver Alliance, and a leader in the Quantified Self movement, Rajiv’s work focuses on empowering people to better understand and manage their family’s health.
CEO, Warmbreeze Studios
Amer has 15 years of experience as a programmer and is currently on his second start up. He only does what he is passionate about and currently that is Healthy Heroes, a groundbreaking and innovative way of mixing World of Warcraft with health and exercise.
CMO, FundedByMe
Namibian born Susan is a PR and communications specialist with over twelve years experience gained in Cape Town, New York, London and Sweden. As Chief Marketing Officer at FundedByMe she helps the world understand crowdfunding and how it can help in securing funds for brilliant ideas and startups. Susan has previous experience of building a healthcare brand for the diabetes product Timesulin.
Project Manager, SMSlivräddare.se
David has served as project manager for SMSlivräddare.se since the early days and been involved in
technical development as well as data managing and PR. Since the start in 2010 over 8 500 volunteer lifesavers are involved and over 2 500 SMS alerts on
suspected cardiac arrest has been sent out so far. Early evaluation shoves that in 40% of the cases one or more of the volunteer lifesavers were on scene before
the ambulance arrived. SMSlivräddare is a scientific research project with the aim to increase bystander CPR and thereby increase survival. David Fredman,
nurse at Södersjukhuset Cardiology department, is also involved in setting up a national registry of defibrillators in Sweden hjartstartarregistret.se.
David now has plans on a doctoral thesis involving GIS to better visualize and understand occurrence of cardiac arrest and also to link defibrillator data to
dispatch centers (SOS alarm) to facilitate early defibrillation.
Lawyer, Gärde Wesslau Advokatbyrå
Ia Modin is a problem solving lawyer specialized in commercial contract law and intellectual property. Her main area of expertise is to draft and negotiate set-ups to develop and commercialize innovations, present or future. Focusing on getting the deal done, she uses legal tools to find sound business solutions. Ia advises clients in the fields of technology and science, notably life science and med tech start-up companies, as well as in the cultural sector, such as film production companies and PR- and advertisement companies. Ia has a great ability to make legal matters understandable to non-lawyers and is a much appreciated speaker and lecturer.
Chief Strategy Officer, Vinnova
Services and ICT is one of VINNOVA's strategic areas. The area deals with meeting the changes and opportunities in society resulting from the new information technology. Europe has over 250 million daily Internet users and almost everybody has a mobile phone. Reliance on information and communications technology has been accentuated by its enabling role in practically all sectors. Information technology has fundamentally changed the way we do business, develop products and services, run companies and act as consumers. Despite the obvious positive impacts of information technology, we are facing major challenges. Personal integrity, security, accessibility and reliability are becoming increasingly important as information technology permeates yet deeper into industry and society.
Internet Entrepreneur
Swedish entrepreneur who since the mid 90’s have been at the cutting edge of digital entrepreneurship as an entrepreneur, investor, thought leader and advisor. Apart from being a founder of over 20 companies, Ola has been a part of launching and managing leading internet companies like Xing, FON, Spray, Boxman, Letsbuyit, SIME and many more. He is a member of the board of the World Economic Forums Technology Pioneer program and course director of Stockholm School of Economics Riga’s Executive MBA program . He has been an advisor on innovation and internationalization to world leading organizations like Google, Telenor & Microsoft. Ola is also the co-founder and moderator of SIME.
Selfcare Entrepreneur
Founder of Unfrazzle, and a former NASA scientist with degrees from Princeton, Stanford and Columbia with experience leading innovation for Apple, Adobe, Interval Research and Symbol. A board member of the Family Caregiver Alliance, and a leader in the Quantified Self movement, Rajiv’s work focuses on empowering people to better understand and manage their family’s health.
Engineer/Patient/Researcher
Sara Riggare is researcher at Karolinska Institutet specializing in Patient Empowerment. She experienced the first symptoms of Parkinson's disease as early as in her early teens and is now devoting her time to developing and implementing tools for supporting people in the lifelong learning that chronic diseases bring. Sara is also a co-organiser of Quantified Self Stockholm.
Innovation Director
Innovation Director at Phorecast, a consulting firm that facilitates closed innovation hackaton sessions for organizations. He is the former Chairman for Swedish Association of Designers, has won two hackatons and one startup weekend, and is right now working on Patient Empowerment projects together with scientists at Karolinska Institutet. Tomas is also known for his passion for pop-culture through the podcast Voccine.
Lawyer, Gärde Wesslau Advokatbyrå
Ia Modin is a problem solving lawyer specialized in commercial contract law and intellectual property. Her main area of expertise is to draft and negotiate set-ups to develop and commercialize innovations, present or future. Focusing on getting the deal done, she uses legal tools to find sound business solutions. Ia advises clients in the fields of technology and science, notably life science and med tech start-up companies, as well as in the cultural sector, such as film production companies and PR- and advertisement companies. Ia has a great ability to make legal matters understandable to non-lawyers and is a much appreciated speaker and lecturer.
The Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems. VINNOVA strengthen Sweden’s innovativeness, aiding sustainable growth and benefiting society. VINNOVA invests around SEK 2 billion per year with 200 employees, working from offices in Stockholm and Brussels.
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One of the larger real estate companies in Sweden specializing in commercial premises within Business and Science Parks, small enterprise parks and city properties. The Klövern share is listed on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm Mid Cap and own real estate at a value of SEK 22.6 billion.
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Stockholm Business Region Development is the official investment promotion agency of Stockholm. We are dedicated to matching investors with opportunities and providing expert advice and assistance in setting up and expanding a foreign-owned business in Stockholm.
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Softronic Health Partner delivers innovative consultancy services and solutions within eHealth. Our aim is to create patient centric processes that in a secure manner allow caregivers to become more effective - especially in the patient-caregiver interface. We are a major industry part in the national sponsored eHealth initiative Mina vårdkontakter/Mina hälsotjänster that aims to be the future open mobile eHealth platform for Swedish citizens and caregivers.
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We put the issues of the rheumatics on the agenda in society and provide information and support so that everyone can live a full life with a rheumatic disease.
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ShapeUp Club is the app that helps you take control over your health situation, lose or gain weight to sustain a healthy lifestyle. With 3 million users around the world and growing fast the goal is to reinvent the world of weight loss.
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Workman Event AB is a leading supplier within Fair & Exhibitionon in Scandinavia that create, design and produce fairs, stands, exhibitions and other types of events.
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Leap Motion is developing advanced motion sensing technology for human-computer interaction and the first product is the Leap Motion Controller. With a wave of a hand or lift of a finger, you're about to change the way you use your computer. The Leap Motion Controller senses how you move your hands, the way you move them naturally. So you can point, wave, reach, and grab. Even pick something up and put it down. Just like in real life. It’s an amazing device for the things you do every day and for things you never thought you could do.
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The Digital Health group on LinkedIn is the nexus of the global digital health ecosystem. The group is an online, virtual community that advances knowledge and builds relationships between professionals interested in the convergence taking place between the digital revolution and health, writ large. In addition to healthcare and medicine, the group’s purview also encompasses consumer-focused sports, fitness, and wellness solutions, which can be considered preventive medicine.
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Warcraft meets health and exercise - Warmbreeze Studios AB have developed the Healthy Heroes iPhone game for the mobile generation with the intent to mix gaming with exercise. By using a virtual character in the game exercise that you do in real life gives you speed, agility, stamina and intellect. Social in game interaction motivates for more exercise.
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Memoto is a wearable camera able to create a continuous life log. The company was founded by six Swedish serial entrepreneurs in 2012. Martin Källström, formerly founder and CEO of blog search engine Twingly. For this task he recruited his friend Oskar Kalmaru, founder of an online video provider, as well as Björn Wesén, who was, at the time, a freelancing designer of high-tech electronics.
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Digital Health Days is a 2-days conference targeting the two areas of ICT and Life Science. The conference is hosted by the City of Stockholm and it’s two science clusters; Kista Science City (ICT) and Stockholm Science City (Life Science). This event will gather decision makers, investors, healthcare providers, researchers, entrepreneurs and students to discuss todays challenges and setting the future healthcare agenda through technology.
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Infozone consists of experts on System Management, virtual infrastructure and descision support systems. With a customer- and user centered approach we choose technology, frameworks and methods based on needs and situation to deliver customized, effective and robust IT-systems.
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Withings creates smart products and apps to take care of yourself and your loved ones in a new and easy way. By using mobile phones and computers as bridges and opening up its platform to the well-being ecosystem, Withings now works seamlessly with over 60 partner apps and devices, providing users with a whole new dimension to their day-to-day life.
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