Counterfeit Drugs Detection App

Granted 10000€

Counterfeit pharmaceuticals are a global problem. The markets and the profits for life style drugs even exceed the profits for illicit drugs like heroine, ecstasy, cocaine etc. Our app CDDA uses smartphones to detect counterfeit drugs. Therefore it takes pictures of the pill under investigation and compares it to original pharmaceuticals in the database.  After a computer vision based discriminational process, the app shows the measurement result: Original or counterfeit drug.

www.photoniq.de/m.php?sid=97

Researchcluster – Sharing for Research

Granted 10000€

Researchcluster provides an intuitive equipment sharing and collaboration solution for everyone in research, from institutes and companies to whole regions. Researchcluster was founded by Emil Kendziorra who experienced less than optimal collaboration between departments during his doctoral thesis. Researchcluster is being developed by an experienced team and will launch in public beta in Q4 / 2013.

www.expershare.co

goderma

Granted 10000€

goderma is a medical online and mobile service for analyzing and evaluating personal skin problems. In close cooperation with leading German dermatologists we are working on the future of digital health care and preventative medicine.

www.goderma.de

BigFONT OCR Reader

Granted 10000€

BigFONT is the first app that allows millions of users that have difficulties with the small print on their iPhones to read with ease. Finally users can easily increase the text size of mobile web pages, which otherwise can’t be zoomed in. Now BigFONT get’s another useful feature – an OCR Reader. Just take a picture of any printed material and you will see the extracted text in easily readable large print on your iPhone.  If that’s not enough, push a button and a terrific sounding voice reads it right back to you.

www.bigfont.net

Blood App

Granted 10000€

BloodApp wants to turn modern phones and cameras into imaging based laboratories for the sensitive diagnostics of blood cells and molecules. It could be used for standard assays, i.e. to monitor blood clotting or anemia, but also to detect new biomarkers. The mobile system could be used in the doctor’s practice, in pharmacies and also as a self-test at home. The tool could enable the close-meshed medical surveillance of chronic patients living in remote regions. Critical decisions in emergency situations can then be made directly. The mobile system also would reduce the costs for the collection of patient data in clinical studies. Contact: bloodAPP@online.ms.

WonderAR

Granted 5000€

We all have spent days at hospitals and know how boring it can be. And now imagine that you are a child, in a new environment and with barely any contact to friends and family. Through smartphones and tablets we aim to create an application that combines real and virtual worlds in a hospital environment. We plan doing so with educational and fun activities in a treasure hunt.

www.wonderAR.net/

Resistance Training for Hypertension

Granted 5000€

Building on top of their existing hoersport.de online fitness-training, digicare will create a digital personal trainer, that takes the special needs of individuals with high blood pressure into account. Fitness training is important for these individuals, but at the same time only the right exercises in the right order with the right intensity should be done. We want to help them train on their own. Effective, motivating and safe.

hoersport.de

Postnatal Exercises

Granted 5000€

After childbirth it is very important that women regain lost muscles. At the same time with the new baby they are more bound to the house and have more difficulty including workouts in their daily schedule. Building on top of their existing hoersport.de online fitness-training, digicare will create a digital personal trainer, that has all the exercises needed for women after childbirth. The training can be done at home. It is fully customized, healthy and effective. In contrast to a static DVD the training time can be adapted to the needs of the woman and each session is slightly different, so that the training is never boring and compliance is better. Motivational elements like reminders help her stay on track.

hoersport.de

Health Pilot

Granted 5000€

HEALTH PILOT – PATIENT EMPOWERING APP! Within the OECD-comparison Germany has one of the highest levels of inpatient hospital activity. While hospitals face the situation with standardization of procedures, patients feel uncertain. Patients who are admitted to a hospital should therefore be empowered regarding their health literacy. To empower patients, the native app “HEALTH PILOT” will be available. The patient installs the “HEALTH PILOT” after being admitted to a hospital by his doctor. “HEALTH PILOT” provides information and functionality in three major areas with several services: 1) procedure preparation, 2) procedure / alternative procedures and 3) patient-oriented hospital.

www.das-medienkombinat.de

Menthal Dopa

Granted 5000€

Menthal Dopa is an Android app to track symptoms of neurological disorders and diseases, especially of Parkinson’s, directly on the phone 24/7/365. We use lock screens and cellphone sensors to get information about the user’s tremor, dexterity of fingers and the sound level of voice. Most parts of the app work in the background and won’t affect the user’s phone usage. Menthal Dopa is part of the Menthal Health Analytics group by Assistant Professor Alexander Markowetz and lead by Christopher Kannen.

www.menthal.org/

Itsy Bitsy – Technology Crawler

Granted 5000€

Developed by Schaltzeit, Itsy Bitsy enables searching for innovative developments across multiple sources, displaying the results on a central page. Via interfaces for pre-defined sources the search can be performed on the levels of metadata, abstracts and full articles. In a volatile environment such as the health care industry, new developments and trends in technology, consumer behavior, competition, and law are retrieved in a structured form and can be constantly observed.

www.schaltzeit.com/

Grandma "Fairy Tale"

Granted 5000€

There is this group of people in our society, the elderly, the grand parents – they have time to be spent and love to give. In Berlin, 80 year old grandma Irmgard Müller is reading fairy tales to kids in her own, lovely decorated house. She’s so passionate about it that she’s been doing this for more than 20 years. Project “Grandma Fairy Tale” will connect the many as much as passionate but yet unknown grandmas of our country to children in need of emotional care, for instance while in hospital or other health or social care. Founder André Pareis, experienced software developer and entrepreneur likes ideas which connect people and help them having a good time.

www.grandmafairytale.com

DocRAID

Granted 5000€

DocRAID(R) is award-winning endpoint security software for storing, transmitting and sharing of as well as collaboratively working on healthcare files. DocRAID(R) provides professional data privacy protection and delivers data security conform to the strict German data protection act as well as support for compliance and governance regulations.

www.docraid.com

GlassAllergy

Granted 5000€

Many people suffer from allergies of substances contained in cosmetic products. GlassAllergy provides a tool to help these people to make an informed buying decision and avoiding ingredients which can cause allergic reactions. GlassAllergy is developed at the GECKO Institute of Informatics, Medicine and Economy located at Heilbronn University, Germany. We are an enthusiastic group of researchers with a strong background in computer science.

www.gecko.hs-heilbronn.de/?page_id=863

OpenSNP

Granted 5000€

openSNP offers a platform for customers of Direct-To-Consumer (DTC) genetic testing – as performed by companies like 23andMe – and (citizen) scientists alike. Customers of DTC testing can publish their genetic information into the public domain, find recent scientific literature and annotations about their own genetic variations, and discuss those variations with other users of openSNP. Thus, the platform creates a rich resource for interaction and information. For (citizen) scientists interested in using genetic information in their research (e.g. Genome-Wide Association Studies), openSNP offers a large database of genetic data linked with phenotypic annotations that is openly accessible.

opensnp.org

eProScore

Granted 5000€

For people with speech impediments it can be very difficult to regain the ability to speak clearly and pronounce correctly. Part of the challenge is to get constant guidance about what exactly needs to be improved and how to measure progress. With eProScore, users can listen to specific words and repeat them for rapid pronunciation training. After playing back the voice recording, the app scores how well every part of the word was pronounced and displays the recommended tongue and mouth movements.

www.speechtechnologygroup.com/eproscore

Checkplan

Granted 5000€

The Checkplan app will help families and individuals to keep track of their medical checkups and suggests recommended checkups. The app will support a different set of checkup information for multiple people (e.g. for a whole family) based on age, medical history and more. Checkups suggestions will be presented as notification and can also be received as email.

checkplan.net

LARA – your health companion

Granted 5000€

“LARA – your health companion” is a digital decision aid program for women between diagnosis fibroids and treatment decision. Every 3rd woman suffers from fibroid related symptoms. Fibroids are benign non-cancerous tissue growths of the uterus womb. Symptoms strongly influence womans’ physical, emotional and sexual wellbeing. They can harm fertility. LARA stands for L=learn, A=appreciate, R=reach decision, A=take action. LARA assists women in understanding their diagnosis and treatment options. LARA lets women manage their own care. LARA prepares them for a shared-decision-making on their individual treatment together with their physician.

www.uterus-myomatosus.net/en/LARA

:studycompanion

Granted 5000€

:studycompanion is a mobile app for smartphones and tablets, that guides study participants through the daily routine of clinical trials. The app presents a detailed plan of the study structure (e.g., the next activity the study participant must conduct and where it is taking place). Depending on location information, the app is aware of the study participants actual position and directs her to the next location. :studycompanion uses data provied by the :study system of the German Aerospace Center (DLR).

software.dlr.de/p/study

ohne Kippe

Granted 5000€

Every year nearly 140.000 people in Germany die due to tobacco use. The vast majority of smokers begin using tobacco products well before the age of 18 years. Therefore the Thoraxklinik Heidelberg developed a smoking prevention Program “ohne Kippe” for children aged 12-14 years. Additional to this primary prevention program an app was designed that should actively motivate to stop smoking with motivation games, personal high score, extensive statistics,  some fitness values and  a non-smoking song.

www.thoraxklinik-heidelberg.de/index.php?id=324

PatientenPager

Granted 5000€

PatientenPager is an app for out- and in-patients. Using our app patients can leave the waiting room of their doctor’s office/clinic at any time because the app will keep them informed about their current status in the waiting line and the estimated time of their treatment. The app will automatically notify the patient when it is time for him to return to the doctor’s office. We are going to support all major platforms (iOS, Android, Blackberry and Windows Phone).

Contactless Monitoring with Commodity Electronics

Granted 5000€

For this project we use Microsoft’s Kinect sensor system for monitoring patients in the most unobtrusive way. Using the sensor data we will develop a software application running on a standard personal computer that continuously tracks and analyzes the movements of a single person and identifies hazardous situations (e.g. fall detection).

www.contactless-monitoring.de