Liquidweb, producer of Braincontrol, finalist at the "Digital Health Olympic Games"
Liquidweb, producer of Braincontrol, finalist at the "Digital Health Olympic Games"
Liquidweb, producer of Braincontrol, finalist at the "Digital Health Olympic Games"
Liquidweb, Tuscan company developer of Braincontrol, will be awarded to Vancouver at the "Interface Digital Health Summit"
The Interface Health Challenge X is an annual worldwide competition which aims to identify the best innovators in the field of digital health.
The competition began on March 1 at the HIMSS 2016 in Las Vegas, where Liquidweb was also awarded with the "Microsoft Health Innovation Awards 2016". All innovators were then involved in a "knockout tournament", undergoing the evaluation of the jury of the INTERFACE Health Challenge X 2016.
The first challenge tooks two weeks, 2,225 votes (59% more than in 2015) of the world's digital health community, and many hours of reviewing the pitches, videos, and media mentions by an international team of volunteering judges to decide the TOP 50. 12 countries, 30 cities on five continents were selected for the following phase of the competition.
The companies are the best innovators in virtual reality, personalized medicine, digital therapies and medical devices and more.
The July 15th, were selected the Top 25, while the “semi-final”, on August 15th, announced the Top 10, judged by research and industrial panel: six Canadian startups, two from the US, one from the Netherlands and one from Italy made the cut this year.
The Grand Finale will take place at in the Imperial Theatre, a stylish, state-of-the-art multimedia facility, located in Vancouver on September 28th (6pm - 9pm).
All these finalists will be awarded and one in ten will receive $100,000 in prizes.
BrainControl is a brain-computer interface (BCI) platform that allows people suffering from neuro-muscular degenerative diseases or brain damage of traumatic or ischemic origin to overcome physical and communicative disabilities. In particular, BrainControl can help patients suffering from diseases that paralyze the whole body or parts of the body, but who retain their intellectual abilities. The system will give those patients the opportunity to interact and communicate at levels unimaginable until a few years ago. It will be possible for them to communicate feelings and needs, to move their own wheelchair, to interact with family and friends through social networks, email or SMS, to turn the lights on or off, and even open or close doors and windows. These daily actions are small for most of humanity, but a large breakthrough for people suffering from neuro-muscular degenerative diseases or brain damage of traumatic or ischemic origin.
Contacts:
LiquidWeb s.r.l.
Via Cesare Maccari, 1
53100 Siena – Italy
Myriam Gioia m.gioia@liquidweb.it
Info: info@braincontrol.com
Tel: +39 05771916187
Fax +39 05770831169
Sito web: www.braincontrol.com
Twitter: @brainctrl
Facebook: Braincontrol
Linkedin: Liquidweb
Caricato il 23/09/2016
