Eindhoven MedTech Innovation Center

Improving value based healthcare by creating and expanding an ecosystem that enables a fast track to high-tech health innovations

Healthcare innovations that enhance daily life

Bringing technical innovations all the way from early research to implementation and commercialization can often take a long time. In healthcare innovation, in particular, this lost time can often equate to lost lives. The goal of the Eindhoven MedTech Innovation Center (e/MTIC) is to create and expand an ecosystem that strongly increases the speed of high-tech health innovation, maximizing value for patients. We consider such an ecosystem to be an unmet need and a unique opportunity for the Brainport region to make significant contributions to visionary new developments in healthcare. e/MTIC is a large-scale research collaboration between the Catharina Hospital (CH), the Maxima Medical Center (MMC), Kempenhaeghe Epilepsy and Sleep Center (KH), Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) and Royal Philips Eindhoven (RPE) in the domains cardiovascular medicine, perinatal medicine and sleep medicine. The partnership has evolved over several decades, has a strong scientific and valorization track record and currently encompasses around 100 PhD students, supervised by a similar number of experts from the various partners.

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e/MTIC White Paper 2024

IMPLEMENTATION SCIENCE IN HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION

The goal of e/MTIC is to create a growing ecosystem that accelerates the pace of high-tech health innovations while maximizing patient value and reducing costs. To ensure real impact on healthcare, we must also ensure effective implementation of innovations that go beyond proof-of-concepts. Therefore, e/MTIC integrates implementation science as an essential research field in of evidence-based healthcare innovation.

Implementation science focuses on the challenges and dilemmas inherent in this process.

Through this White Paper we want to highlight these complexities by having the key figures involved explain how such a journey takes place from idea to solution and product application. With various examples and recommandations we show the entire process from idea to product development and implementation in clinical practice.

 ** Launch 08 February 2024 - During Symposium Healthy Heart @ Home - TU/e

Inaugural lecture Prof. dr. Misha Luyer

05 April 2024 | 16:00 - 17:00

Technology to improve oncological surgery and perioperative care

Technological advances play an important role in improving patient outcomes after complex oncological surgery. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and neuromodulation is already changing current surgical practice. However, although technological possibilities are increasing rapidly, it is essential that clinicians overseeing clinically relevant problems keep in close communication with engineers. Close collaboration ensures a targeted approach and maximizes the utilization of emerging potentials.

Besides the direct application of technology to improve diagnosis, aid surgery or enhance recovery, it also facilitates targeted training to reduce the learning curve, expands expertise, and offers solutions to capacity constraints within the healthcare system.

In his lecture, Misha Luyer will share the findings of his research and discuss the future potential of emerging technologies that can be used to improve perioperative care.

HEALTHCARE INNOVATIONS THAT ENHANCE DAILY LIFE

Bringing technical innovations all the way from early research to implementation and commercialization can often take a long time. In healthcare innovation, in particular, this lost time can often equate to lost lives. The goal of the Eindhoven MedTech Innovation Center (e/MTIC) is to create and expand an ecosystem that strongly increases the speed of high-tech health innovation, maximizing value for patients. We consider such an ecosystem to be an unmet need and a unique opportunity for the Brainport region to make significant contributions to visionary new developments in healthcare. e/MTIC is a large-scale research collaboration between the Catharina Hospital (CH), the Maxima Medical Center (MMC), Kempenhaeghe Epilepsy and Sleep Center (KH), Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) and Royal Philips Eindhoven (RPE) in the domains cardiovascular medicine, perinatal medicine and sleep medicine. The partnership has evolved over several decades, has a strong scientific and valorization track record and currently encompasses around 100 PhD students, supervised by a similar number of experts from the various partners.

CELEBRATION OF 5 YEAR E/MTIC

5 Partners, 5 Years, 5 July 2023

Time to celebrate e/MTIC research, innovations and collaboration towards a Fast Track to Clinical Innovation. During the anniversary celebration on Wednesday, July 5, the five partners looked back on the achieved successes and forward to the future. The strength of e/MTIC lies in the close collaboration between the university, hospitals and industry. All these parties are needed to realize innovations in healthcare. According to Carmen van Vilsteren, Director of e/MTIC, "a lot has changed in the past five years. When we started five years ago, we were seen as a local initiative. Meanwhile, we are recognized as a strategic collaboration that can serve as a model for innovation in helathcare."

Our Research Areas

e/MTIC aims to strengthen the institutionalized collaboration between regional partners focusing on research and innovation in pre-defined clinical domains. Initially these are the domains in which we already excel internationally, i.e. perinatal and cardiovascular health along with sleep medicine

 

e/MTIC research

Dynamic Dashboard for Cardiovascular Data Visualization and Analysis

Telerehabilitation for ADHF patients

Perioperative high-resolution monitoring database

Spectralligence

Unobtrusive OSA screening techniques

Designing Perinatal Life Support technologies through simulation

Heart Failure Classification Trial & Transitional Care Trial

PICASSO- Maternity Dashboard

video monitoring for early signaling of adverse events

PERSTIM project

UMOSA: Laser-based illumination unit for rPPG

Prolonged In-Home Sleep Monitoring (PRISM)

Digital Twin to Predict Ventricular Tachycardias

Design of a Clinical Data Management Workflow

Video monitoring for early signaling of adverse events

Biomarker monitoring by wearable patch

Multi-perspective functional echocardiography

Cancer localization by ultrasound microvasculature imaging

Monitoring the Narcolepsy spectrum

Prediction of life-threatening arrythmias

Risk stratification and screening in early pregnancy

Pre-operative assessment of aortic stenosis

Smart subjective sleep monitoring in family context

Magnetic micromixing for point of care diagnostic

Ambulatory Monitoring for improved pregnancy outcome

Camera-based Respiration Monitoring

Development of a digital twin of the artificial womb

Camera-based vital signs monitoring during sleep

Alarm-Limiting AlgoRithm-based Monitoring

ANALYSIS OF AORTIC-VALVE BLOOD FLOW USING COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS

FASTER AND BETTER DETECTION OF DETERIORATION OF POST-OPERATIVE PATIENTS USING NON-OBTRUSIVE TECHNIQUES

MINIMALLY INVASIVE ULTRASOUND IMAGING OF ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSMS

Nutrition monitoring with sensors in the home environment

Joint modeling with high-frequent repeated measurements

Quality of real-time fMRI: novel software, sequences, and signals

Interactive exploration of logistic regression models

Cardiac monitoring from clinical setting to daily life

Dynamic checklists: design, implementation and evaluation

Analysis of care pathways via coordinate systems

From Bench to Bedside

Accelerating digital innovation by co-creating in 6 months innovation cycles in the e/MTIC ecosystem

PROJECT: DEEP LEARNING FOR MEDICAL IMAGE ANALYSIS (DLMedIA)

e/MTIC - Large-scale research collaboration

Catharina Hospital – new technique treatment atrial fibrillation

New MRI scanner for in-depth epilepsy research

Diagnosing sleep apnea - faster, easier, costs-efficient

Narcolepsy Monitor - a joint e/MTIC development

The doctor and computer form together a powerful combination

e/MTIC has a huge support among professionals

A practical e/MTIC case – TRICA Study

e/MTIC Health Data Platform – Vision document

MEDICAID an e/MTIC miniprogram

Smart camera to warn in case of acute heart problem

Heart Foundation interviews professor and cardiologist Lukas Dekker

Bridging the gap between doctors and technology

Remote monitoring via Smart Patch

Video made by ZorgVanNu

Developped within e/MTIC: a smart patch that measures, among other things, the patient's heart rate and breathing from a distance. Wherever it is. The Catharina hospital in Eindhoven uses the patch for various conditions or treatments. In the video we share their experiences with the Philips healthdot.

Zorg van Nu is an initiative of the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport (VWS)

The central thread of my career lies in high-tech innovation in healthcare and that is also my passion. My experience in industry is largely complementary to the knowledge TU/e already has.  I believe that it is exactly this combination that is really powerful and will help me to extend and strengthen health research, innovation and education. 

Carmen van Vilsteren, director e/MTIC

News

Meet some of our Researchers

Postdoc

Eriola Shanko

Postdoc

Myrthe van der Ven

Doctoral Candidate

Emma Moonen

Assistant Professor

Merel van Gilst

Full Professor
(Part-time)

Erik Korsten

University Researcher

Xi Long

Education and Research Technician (Design and Development)

Rainier van Dommele

University Researcher

Peter Andriessen

University Researcher

Tom Bakkes

Full Professor

Natal van Riel

Doctoral Candidate

Zheng Peng

Associate Professor

Judith van Laar

Full Professor

Jan Bergmans

Associate Professor

Ruud van Sloun

External Collaboration Coordinator

Paul Merkus

Full Professor
(Part-time)

Guid Oei

Assistant Professor
(Part-time)

Hailong Jiao

Full Professor
(Part-time)

Ronald Aarts

Full Professor emeritus

Ward Cottaar

Associate Professor

Pierre Cluitmans

Assistant Professor

Collin Drent

Full Professor

Keita Ito

Full Professor
(Part-time)

Volkher Scharnhorst

Hybrid Teacher

Heleen Muijlwijk

Associate Professor

Sveta Zinger

Full Professor
(Part-time)

Carola van Pul

Doctoral Candidate

Hein de Hoop

University Researcher

Andreas Pollet

Full Professor

Frans van de Vosse

Full Professor
(Part-time)

Hessel Wijkstra

Full Professor emeritus

Loe Feijs

Dean

Edwin van den Heuvel

Assistant Professor

Peter Bovendeerd

Guest Professor

Marc van Sambeek

Assistant Professor

Catarina Dinis Fernandes

Full Professor
(Part-time)

Hareld Kemps

Associate Professor

Richard Lopata

Managing Director of Research Institute

Carmen van Vilsteren

Assistant Professor

Chao Zhang

Full Professor

Massimo Mischi

Assistant Professor

Beatrijs van der Hout

Full Professor
(Part-time)

Albert Aldenkamp

Assistant Professor

Hans-Martin Schwab

Doctoral Candidate

Iris Huijben

Doctoral Candidate

Esmée de Boer

Full Professor

Peter de With

Full Professor
(Part-time)

Paul Boon

Doctoral Candidate

Esther Maas

Assistant Professor

Rob Mestrom

Associate Professor

Rik Vullings

Our partners

The Eindhoven MedTech Innovation Centre is a large-scale research collaboration in the Eindhoven region between The Catharina Hospital, the Maxima Medical Center, Kempenhaeghe Epilepsy and Sleep Center, Eindhoven University of Technology, and Royal Philips Eindhoven.

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