EU NEIGHBOURS. Over the past three months, the EU TUMO Convergence Centre for Engineering and Applied Science in Armenia has been conducting a joint project on the digitisation of healthcare with the Healthcare Innovation Centre (HIC), a Yerevan-based organisation developing innovative approaches to healthcare.
Project participants learned about the digitisation of healthcare, challenges in the field and international precedents for tackling them — knowledge that they then applied to the healthcare system in Armenia.
The goal was to develop an application that connects patient information from smart medical devices to a single database, shared by healthcare providers throughout Armenia.
For most project participants, the digitisation of healthcare was new terrain. But thanks to teamwork and the accessible approach of project facilitators, they were able to develop several interesting applications that can be used to ease work on healthcare professionals.