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Continuous development, and thus improved capabilities for more efficient care, within various areas of the pre-hospital care chain, is a common theme of the upcoming Metis Forum. One of the companies that will present its activities is called HeroSight. They specialise in the use of Augmented Reality in training for emergency medical care, among other things. We had three questions for Daniel Kindstrand, CEO and founder of HeroSight.

Yesterday, MedTech West had the great honor to facilitate the prize ceremony for the Henry Wallman Award, and these are the three winners; Rickard Brånemark, Kerstin Hagberg and Max J. Ortiz Catalán. The Henry Wallman prize is an innovation prize in medical technology awarded annually to researchers or graduate students who, in close collaboration between expertise in technology and health care, successfully have transferred new knowledge from academia to practical medical care.

The collaborative conference 'AI in Prehospital Care' spread knowledge of how artificial intelligence can be used within prehospital medical care. Bengt Arne Sjöqvist and Hanna Maurin Söderholm from PICTA talked, among other things, about how accuracy can be improved in the pre-hospital assessment of sepsis patients with the help of AI.

A unique research study within medical image analysis of coronary/cardiac computed tomography angiography images from the Scapis study has been tested this autumn at AI Innovation of Sweden's Data Factory. By using the infrastructure that the Data Factory offers, it has been possible to dramatically increase efficiency in the research work.

Scandinavia's leading eHealth meeting Vitalis was held at the Swedish Exhibition & Congress Centre in Gothenburg. PICTA had a test ambulance on site where video support for more efficient stroke care was demonstrated. Many visitors appreciated seeing what eHealth means in the real world.