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The ViPHS project for video support in the pre-hospital stroke chain introduced its first clinical tests during week 8. The objective of the project is to establish a basis for a potential regional widespread introduction and a national model for how important support in the healthcare process can be shaped.

To the memory of Professor Henry Wallman, and the legacy of close cooperation between the clinical and the engineering sciences, Stiftelsen Medicin & Teknik (The Foundation for Bio-medical Engineering) at Chalmers has instituted an annual Innovation Prize in Bio-Medical Engineering.

In order to develop pre-hospital healthcare into ambulatory care at Sahlgrenska University Hospital, PreHospen at the University of Borås and Prehospital ICT Arena at Lindholmen Science Park are working together to create a wide arena for collaboration. The guiding principle is a simple vision: no mistakes in pre-hospital assessment and prioritisation.

Inera's conference 'AI and Automation in Future Healthcare – when will 1177 Healthcare Guide become a robot?' spreads information about how artificial intelligence can be used in healthcare, among other things. Johanna Bergman from PICTA talked about how accuracy can be improved in the pre-hospital assessment of sepsis patients with the help of AI.

When a traffic accident has happened, how should you act to best handle the situation for everyone involved, so that lives are saved and injuries are minimal? Prehospital ICT Arena is now, together with SAFER, engaging in post-crash as a new focus area.

Sabine Reinfeldt has been awarded the newly established prize in medical technology, in the spirit of Henry Wallman, for her research on bone conduction, and for her ability to build bridges between disciplines. Sabine, Associate Professor and leader of the research group Biomedical Signals and Systems at Chalmers University of Technology, received the prize at a ceremony arranged by MedTech West on 19 September.