Every year Medtech4Health presents our Innovation Award to a deserving winner. The Medtech4Health Innovation Award is worth SEK 100,000. It is intended to highlight good examples of projects in which health sevices, in active participation with academia and business, develop and introduce new technology leading to significant improvements in healthcare and helping new medical technology reach the market.

Last year’s winners were doctors Thomas Drevhammar, Kjell Nilsson, Snorri Donaldsson and Baldvin Jonsson at the Anesthesia and IVA unit at Östersund Hospital, and the Neonatology unit at Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm. They developed and tested a new breathing aid that helps premature babies.

Now their efforts have been further rewarded in the form of the Athena Prize, which is awarded by Vinnova and Dagens Medicin together with LIF, the Swedish Research Council, Forte, Swedish Medtech and Sweden’s Municipalities and Regions. Medtech4Health sends many congratulations to the winners!

Read more (in Swedish) at dagensmedicin.se

Nominations for the 2020 Innovation Health Award should reach us by February 5, 2020

The Award is intended for staff, clinics or businesses in healthcare and aims to promote initiatives that can be replecated by others. Through the Medtech4Health Innovation Award, we want to highlight good examples of healthcare actively participating in the development and introduction of new technology, leading to significant improvements in healthcare and enabling new medical technology to reach the market. An important component is that the innovations can be transferred to other clinics and scaled up.

Read more (in Swedish) at medtech4healthinnovationaward.se

The above article is a translation of the Athena Prize announcement in Swedish from November. For the original go here.