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TOMSK, Dec 12 – RIA Tomsk, Vadim
Belozertsev.
The StrongBack team won at the Tomsk hackathon on digital medicine, having
submitted the project of the device, which watches the owner's posture, the
press service of the region administration reported on Tuesday.
It is specified that 40 people as a
part of seven teams participated in the hackathon on digital medicine.
Participants worked on projects in spheres of "wearable devices for
monitoring of the state of health and improvement of the environment,
development of mobile applications and system projects, use of blockchain
technology in medicine".
"The StrongBack project on
creation of the device for posture correction which fixes the correct position
of a back and signals about the changes lasting more than one minute became the
winner. Special sensors can be built in a next-to-skin clamp or be used during
creation of "clever clothes", – it is said in the statement.
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The second place in the competition
was taken by the project of a bracelet for storage and transfer of tablets
which will remind the owner in due time of need to take medicine, and the third
– the project of the PocketDoc mobile application which will be able to
recommend the doctor and help to find the nearest hospital and to register in
reception on symptoms of illness.
According to the region
administration, the winner team will continue work over the project in the
corporate accelerator of MTS mobile network operator and the IT park of
Siberian State Medical University (SSMU). Also the invitation to the
accelerator was received by the PillBand project. The MTS and Elecard-Med
companies are ready to supervise the project on creation of the PocketDoc
mobile application.
"Also teams (participants of
the hackathon) presented projects on creation of electronic tattoos for
monitoring and the analysis of biometric data, the hardware and software for
carrying out analyses in house conditions, devices for facilitation of motive
functions of people with Parkinson's disease and programs with voice actuation
for the help to doctors during the filling and document handling", – the
press service notes.