The awards for the best projects – Innovation Award and Aiic Awards, with the addition of the “best conference stand” – were awarded at the 24th National Clinical Engineering Conference (Aiic), which concluded over the weekend in Rome at the La Nuvola conference center. A total of 17 prizes were awarded among the approximately 300 evaluated.
The Innovation award, reserved for companies producing and selling electro-medical technologies and medical devices – we read in a note – had the aim of valorising the “technological solutions with the greatest impact in the field of bioengineering”, and was voted by an internal jury to the Association. The winners of the 3 categories into which the award was divided were: in the Diagnostic-therapeutic-rehabilitation category, Novocure, for ‘Tumor Treating Fields: therapeutic innovation for the treatment of solid tumors’; for ‘Digital Healthcare and AI’, Medtronic with the Smart MDI System with CGM Simplera and, for the Process Support category, Pentax Medical with ‘Innovation and sustainability in reprocessing: Finding the balance’. To these winners was also added the award for the ‘Best stand’, introduced this year to “select the most effective presence within the exhibition area of our event – underlines the president of the conference, Lorenzo Leogrande – because, for all clinical engineers, being able to concretely see the technological solutions that the world of production wants to propose to us is an element of absolute value”. The winner was the Bolognese company Zaccanti, which brought its advanced ‘Teleion’ solution for the operating room to the Nuvola spaces.
The Aiic Awards 2024, which had as president of the Jury Professor Francesco Saverio Mennini, head of the Programming Department at the Ministry of Health, this year saw the participation of over 180 teams who presented multidisciplinary works divided into 11 categories. For the ‘Path and process re-engineering’ category, an ex aequo awarded the project on ‘Governance of surgical waiting lists: Data driven healthcare in surgical planning, by Roberta Bellini, Azienda Ou SS. Antonio and Biagio and Cesare Arrigo Alessandria and ‘Simulat-Er: a virtual twin of the emergency room to better understand the internal dynamics’, by Ilaria Lazzarini, Agm Consulting, Milan. In the ‘functional design’ category, ‘The application of clinical-management design in the development of the Pfte of the new Avezzano hospital’ by Luca Algostino, Agm Project Consulting, Milan, won. For ‘Digital Healthcare’ the prize was awarded to the ‘Restoration project: Tele-rehabilitation through perturbation of visual feedback for the upper limb’, by Giulia Sedda, department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari.
The award for ‘Ai Applications’ was won by ‘Freki Smart hospital’, by Leandro Pecchia and the team from the Campus Biomedico University, Rome. For ‘Interoperability of devices’, the award was given to ‘Surgical path: interoperability between information systems and healthcare technologies’ by Antonino Ammendolia and the team from the Agostino Gemelli University Hospital, Rome. And again, for the ‘Management of biomedical technologies’ category, the winner was ‘Maedis-Disused electromedical equipment warehouse’ by Giuliana Faiella, Santobono-Pausillipon Hospital, Naples. The ‘Procurement Experiences’ award went to ‘The public-private partnership, from the idea of a new hospital to the construction site in 20 months, the experience of the new Gaslini’, by Urbina Bruno and Ezio Nicolais, Gaslini Hospital, Genoa. In the Regulatory Paths category, the award went to ‘Who-Prequalification and Assred criteria: wheat to reach developing markets’ by Lorenzo Zucchini, University of Trieste. For ‘Experiences and methodologies of technology evaluation’, the winner was ‘The Ai-Mind project: Development and evaluation of Hta of artificial intelligence solutions for the early diagnosis of dementia’, created by Rossella di Bidino, Altems, Università Cattolica del Sacro Heart, Rome. Therefore, for ‘Innovative applications of bioengineering’, the award went to ‘Exploring wearable systems for seismocardiographic information extraction’, by Francesca Santucci, Campus Biomedico University, Rome. For ‘Innovation of projects and services’, the winner was ‘Virtual navigator 3D camera registration’, by Stefano Petaccia, Esaote, Genoa.
To these 11 Awards were added the 2 awarded by the ‘popular jury’ – which voted online at the congress. The winners are: Francesca Arlotta from Zucchetti in Lodi with the poster ‘Implementation of the predictive maintenance module integrated into maintenance management’ and Giulia Sedda, already awarded in the Digital Healthcare category, as best abstract.
“The most innovative, most useful and most available technologies are here, on the Aiic stage – comments Leogrande – The overall result of our various contests makes us proud of Aiic’s ability to ‘put into circulation’ an important reflection on products and projects in a climate of multidisciplinarity. The professional teams, universities, research centers and manufacturing companies have demonstrated once again this year that they want to compete not only to take home an opinion on their work, but because they know they will find in Aiic a ‘house of ready experts’ to comparison, in-depth analysis and constructive dialogue to achieve an improvement of the entire system – he concludes – through a continuous upgrade of technological solutions”.
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