Digitisation for diagnostics and development of new applications and devices
A medical device is any instrument, apparatus, machine, implant, in vitro reagent, software, material or other similar or related item for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of diseases and illnesses.
The Medical Devices and Digital Health focus area benefits from the infrastructure of all Basque stakeholders in the innovation ecosystem related to medical devices and digital health. Specifically, it is made up of R&D centres, universities and public biohealth institutes in the Basque Country, meaning it is highly qualified to offer SMEs and entrepreneurs in the sector technological and economic consultancy; support in design, prototyping and validation; or specialised training activities.
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Application areas
15 organisations and more than 50 assets to assist with:
devices Orthopedic
and rehabilitation
Technology In-Vitro
diagnostics Laboratory
equipment Medical
Image Digital
health Biomedical
consumables Additive
manufacturing
devices
Electromedical devices
Medical technology and Electromedical devices:
- For diagnosis (examples: electroencephalographs, myography equipment)
- For therapy (examples: cardio therapy, laser therapy)
- Critical care (examples: artificial respiration, incubators)
- Surgery and endoscopy (examples: surgical instruments, electrical surgery equipment).
and rehabilitation
Technology
diagnostics
equipment
Image
health
consumables
manufacturing
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Medical devices and digital health
Casos de uso
Detection of SARS-CoV-2 viruses with graphene field effect transistors
GRAPHENEA
Use case
Graphenea is a company born in 2010 with the purpose of producing graphene for researchers. There are 36 workers in the company dedicated to the production and research of graphene, though lately they had decided to enter into product development so as to create biosensors of this material in order to detect virus such as the Sars-Cov-2, of great use in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Need:
Moving from producing and researching graphene to developing graphene-based products with a view to finding industrial applications.
Area of the company where the solution is focused:
Product development
Company size:
PYMESector:
Graphene productionLocation:
Donostia-San Sebastián (Gipuzkoa)Benefits of the Solution:
- Access to new equipments
- Discovery of new markets
- New products for the sector
Incorporated Technologies:
- Functionalization of materials
- Nanotechnology