ISS Project SAHA accepted at 4th global entrepreneurship conference (GES)
The SAHA (Smart and Ambient Health Assistant) project leaded by Dr. Mehdi Snene, a senior researcher (Substitute M.E.R) at the University of Geneva, is selected between more than 300 research prototypes to be present during the 4th global entrepreneurship conference (GES) to present their next generation health devices and platforms. The 4th GES is a major business and technology event in the world, where entrepreneurs from all over the world, thought leaders, researchers and aspiring entrepreneurs will converge, meet, discuss, debate, share ideas, connect and network. For the 4th edition, President Barrack Obama and the Malaysian Prime Minister who both will be present during the opening ceremony will address a Keynote for the awards winners. The GES series has been initiated by President Obama in 2009 and the Global Innovation through Science and Technology initiative (GIST) serves to detect high potential research idea that could resolve in innovative way critical problems across the world.
The SAHA’s team composed from pharmacists, doctors and IT researchers under the Lead of Dr. Snene will present their new device prototype based on several sensors (blood pressure, temperature, stress level....) that monitor at real time the health status of operators and thus could react to their situation by adapting or preventing them from taking wrong or inadequate decisions. Based on a personalized library of symptoms patterns, several contagious diseases could be detected and/or predicted during their incubation phase to prevent the contamination between people working on the same area. The research has been conducted on a repository of 100.000 patients’ medical files to elaborate the predictive analytic algorithms.
With the increase of the number of highly contagious and deadly virus, the interest for such platform is growing and several governmental and private institutions have shown their interest to test SAHA in their crisis management units, front office units, air traffic control....
With this award, the research conducted by Dr. Snene on Big Data and predictive analytics for health and crisis management is considered as the forefront of the domain.
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