Two UIC projects have received awards at the 6th Ennova Health Awards, organised by Diario Médico and Correo Farmacéutico, which recognise digital innovation initiatives applied to the healthcare sector.

The awards were presented in Madrid on 1 October as part of Ennova Health Day, an event that brings together professionals and organisations involved in healthcare innovation. This year, the awards recognised 71 initiatives across five categories.

With these two distinctions, UIC has been represented in two of the five award categories. The awards highlight projects capable of transforming technological innovation into practical solutions for healthcare, healthcare professionals and patients. In the words of Fran Sánchez Becerril, content director of Diario Médico and Correo Farmacéutico, the awards shine a spotlight on the leading figures of Spain’s healthcare technology revolution because “innovation has names and faces”.

MedMind, a mental health platform

The MedMind project, led by Isabella Meneghel, a researcher in the Department of Psychology, received recognition in the Digital Patient Empowerment category. The platform is designed to prevent and address mental health problems among healthcare professionals. By monitoring data in real time, it enables the identification of sources of stress and the analysis of working conditions that may affect emotional wellbeing, while also providing resources to help manage it.

Chiara Battista, a member of the MedMind team, collected the two awards during the ceremony held in Madrid.

Gloves to improve CPR training

The second UIC project to receive an award is led by Jordi Castillo, a researcher in the Department of Nursing, and was recognised in the Remote Monitoring Devices category.

The project represents a significant advance in learning cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) through the use of virtual reality. Thanks to the integration of a hand-tracking device, the system provides a far more realistic and accurate immersive simulation environment without the need for a physical mannequin.

This innovation enhances the learning experience in life support and facilitates practice, with the aim of making CPR training much more accessible and enabling this essential training to reach a much wider population.

Both MedMind and the CPR glove project were among the four initiatives presented this year by UIC researchers at 4YFN, where they had the opportunity to showcase their projects within the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem. The Ennova Health Awards now recognise the progress made by both initiatives.