Software for real-time monitoring and detection for ASD signs, vending machine for STD testing kits take top honours at Medical Grand Challenge Finale 2022
Published: 20 Aug 2022
Photo Credits: NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
Virtually-impaired person stimulator, artificial Intelligence-powered eye screening, mobile applications to help individuals with physical and speech difficulties to communicate, smart pill dispenser – these are just some of the novel innovations that students from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine) have come up with for the Medical Grand Challenge (MGC) 2022.
After an intense pitching session where teams put up impressive presentations to wow the judges, Team KIDDX took the top prize in the Nascent category with their video monitoring and analysis software for real-time monitoring and detection of early signs of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in the home setting.
In the Open category, Team STDetect swept the top award with a vending machine that facilitates access to Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) testing kits, along with a mobile application for users to register their test kits and receive their testing results anonymously.
This year, a total of 10 participating teams competed against one another in the Nascent Category where they took turns to propose solutions which they have prepared from scratch after identifying a clinical problem or unmet healthcare need at the start of this competition journey.
In the Open category, eight teams worked on projects initiated by industry experts known as “Tech Mentors”. The teams could also choose to focus their energies on improving existing projects that were presented in previous competitions. This is the fourth year that overseas teams have participated in the MGC.
During the past challenges, participants from Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, as well as South Korea and Galway, Ireland, have added to the diversity of the challenge with their own novel innovations to encourage multi-disciplinary collaboration. Throughout the year, the teams attend interdisciplinary boot camps and participated in consultation sessions with their tech mentors who provide guidance and advise them on how best to improve their creations and build on their commercial viability.
Other awards that were presented at the Finale included the People’s Choice Award for Fisioguide, an AI-powered tele-physiotherapy based treatment application for people with Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSD), Sustainability Award for Bilimonitor++, a consumer-grade jaundice meter device for home use and the Social Responsibility Award for Foresight, an Artificial Intelligence-powered eye screening for detection of glaucoma.
Read more in the press release here.
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