Session on innovation in care of stroke patients

During the session in Bellvitge Campus.
During the session in Bellvitge Campus.
Academic
(21/06/2019)

In order to present ideas and innovating solutions to face challenges related to ictus, on Wednesday, June 19, the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (Bellvitge Campus) held the session “Factor WeNURSE. Unconventional entrepreneurs in health”, organized by the University School of Nursing.

During the session in Bellvitge Campus.
During the session in Bellvitge Campus.
Academic
21/06/2019

In order to present ideas and innovating solutions to face challenges related to ictus, on Wednesday, June 19, the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (Bellvitge Campus) held the session “Factor WeNURSE. Unconventional entrepreneurs in health”, organized by the University School of Nursing.

“Strokes have a great impact in the autonomy of people, especially child strokes, which are hard to diagnose and rehabilitation treatments start usually late”, says Dolors Rodríguez, lecturer at the University School of Nursing and principal researcher at the UB in the European project Empowering Women Entrepreneurship in Health Innovation (WE Health), which framed the session. The conference was focused on providing solutions to improve the motor autonomy of people who suffered a stroke, a fact that, influences general autonomy.

The initiative by WE Health, a strategic project from the program EIT Health Campus, aims to improve the participation of women in activities health innovation and entrepreneurship. In this sense, the session was aimed at female students of bachelor and master degrees as well as postgraduate studies and doctoral studies of Nursing. In particular, 32 attendants took part in a process of proposal co-creation, together with families from the Hemiweb Association - Children Hemiparesis and people from the Association Ictus Barcelona. They counted on the support from the Barcelona Entrepreneurship Institute (BIE) of the UB.

The three awarded projects provide solutions in the field of communication and food. The first prize was given to a group that created a system to identify processed and unprocessed foods, for people with dysphagia. The second prize was given to an idea to favour people who suffered a stroke so that they can plan their shopping in the town markets with the involvement of the sellers. Another of the awarded proposals was the creation of a pictographic code to share in class with the students, to ease the communication in the educational field.

The awards include specific training on entrepreneurship, the chance to move their idea to an incubation phase through BIE, a place to take part in the Innovation Day at the UB and a trip.

“This is the first session we organize with these features; we want to conduct one per year changing the challenges we want to solve”, concluded Dolors Rodríguez.