entrepreneurship event when she found
out I was a computer science student she
told me that she wanted to make the
world a better place she told me that
the medical industry is full of old and
expensive technology and that not
everybody afford it back then when I
heard that I didn’t think it was
possible I would imagine that I as an
ordinary person would go to the hospital
and have access to all the latest and
high-tech devices well that is not the
whole truth more than a half of the
medical devices are based on all
technology are very expensive and can be
found only in a few clinics and this is
a thing that happens all over the world
not only in Romania and now we ask
ourselves how do we get a vision of how
the medical industry will be let’s say
five years from now how do I as a
scientist as a doctor as an ordinary
person creative see the solutions that
can be found ahead of time from my point
of view the answer is very simple
using the eyes of mine and overcoming
yourself after meeting the doctor that I
previously told you about me and my team
for enthusiastic computer science
student went to her hospital to see what
the real problem was we did some
research in the medical field she was
specialised in the loss of balance
something that seems so simple at the
first sight the loss of balance and we
discovered that a lot of diseases and
conditions have in common
this simple symptom the loss of balance
did you know that 7 to 10 million people
are affected by Parkinson’s disease
worldwide with 80,000 being
every year in Europe alone 85 millions
of Europeans are reported problems with
ear dysfunction and another 10 million
reported problems with balance only a
few people know that a very premature
symptom of the Parkinson’s disease is
the loss of balance some of these
conditions are inconvenient while other
are downright debilitating but cut early
on they can be cured or at least the
life of the patient can be considerably
improved but they all have something in
common
the loss of balance this is part of the
diagnosis process in order to check
their balance a patient has to go to an
ear nose throat doctor or to a
neurologist and do several tests
sometimes with multiple devices these
devices are based on all technology hard
to use balance systems and sometimes
even improvised solutions these
restrictions lead to the tests being
done only in a few clinics and with a
big time cost for the doctor and the
patient I want to show you how this
process works in a hospital let’s say we
have a patient that came in complaining
about dizziness problems one of the
first and a simple assess that a doctor
does is the Romberg test this involves
making the patient stand still for 20
seconds with his eyes closed while
evaluating his back to front and side to
side tilt right now this test is done
with this large mechanical device that
you can see on the screen the patient
steps on the platform closes his eyes
and then the pressure sensors evaluate
only his back to front movement after
that the data is being shown on the
display the doctor analyzes the
information and writes down the
results into the medical patients file
after all the research and the sightings
that we’ve done for the problem the need
that our doctor and all the other
doctors like her have we came up with a
solution we created NT it is a medical
device used for tracking the balance of
the internal ear and for checking the
spine posture it is a wearable
electronic based on a sensor fusion
easily worn by the patient on his back
or head auntie helps the doctor to
execute at least three of four balance
tests and with all the data being sent
to a doctor friendly app let me show you
how the test that you previously saw
works with NT you put on the harness
with the device attached to the back the
device is very easy to put on and
comfortable to wear after that this the
doctor selects the tests to be performed
and NT will start recording and
processing all the data that comes from
the device and from the patient’s
movements at the ending of the test the
results are displayed on the doctors PC
with the possibility of saving them as a
PDF as we can see for this patient he
has a really good balance and he doesn’t
need any further investigations right
now there are devices on the market to
perform this test what you saw earlier
was the market leader for the Romberg
test the pro balance master it cost
eleven thousand dollars is based on all
technology and requires a large amount
of space to set up and for each balance
test there are separated devices that
are used for example for the Unterberger
test there are several solutions that
are used by a doctor
from Polaroid cameras to have melted
lids and more empirical solutions that
involve a match
and human observation in the past 10
months me and my team have worked along
with five doctors to test the concept
and the prototype we have performed
almost 500 tests on over 400 patients
our results show that our device is even
better that the all the old devices are
by 2020 the global med tech market will
be worth 500 billion dollars the devices
and diagnostics is in the top 5 med tech
trends and it is becoming more and more
integral to the Bo Pharma business NT is
the class 1 medical device with the
lowest risk and entry barriers to the
market also the opportunity comes from
the autonomy and the portability that
makes it suitable for developing regions
right now we want to continue
researching the medical field using all
the anonymous data that come from the
test that our device does we plan on
being able to track different diseases
in certain categories of gender age and
lifestyle that means our world will be
one step ahead into tracing potential
diseases that we might have just by
looking at our hobbies at our gender at
our age the best way to keep something
bad from happening is to see it ahead of
time and you can do that if you don’t
face the possibility of it in the end
what have I learned until now is that
you have not lived today until you have
helped somebody that can never repay you
back and remember be always balanced
thank you [Applause]