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Higher road traffic safety, better insight into the health status of the person behind the wheel, and increased knowledge of how connected aids and smart services can be applied in vehicles. These are some of the benefits of the emerging collaboration between researchers in the digital health area and the automotive industry.

For the third year in a row, The Foundation for Bio-Medical Engineering will award the Henry Wallman Prize to a medical technology researcher or research group. We are proud to announce that the 2020 prize will be awarded to Associate Professor Emma Aneheim.

The spring of 2020 has been unlike anything we are used to or have experienced before. Despite the major changes related to social distancing, remote work, etc., we have been operating at full capacity here in PICTA. Of course, clinic-related activities have dropped off substantially, and the Metis Forum originally planned for this spring has been pushed back, but at the same time we have been able to focus on other things, such as a strategies for the future, network development and the development of new projects. Naturally, this also involves reflection on what has been achieved thus far in PICTA's almost 9-year journey, and the choice of direction for the future. We would like to share some of those observations.

With the development of a mobile test bed for the pre-hospital care chain, entirely new possibilities for research, testing, development and innovation of new products and work processes are created. Many user groups now see the potential in testing the ambulance for simulations together with PICTA and partners.

The two-year collaborative project TEAPaN's kick-off and workshop for all of its partners took place in February. We asked project manager Stefan Candefjord from Chalmers three questions in order to find out more.