(Adnkronos) - È stato il progetto Reviva ideato da sei giovani studenti universitari ad aggiudicarsi la vittoria della terza edizione degli I-days, l’Hackathon organizzato dal gruppo Synlab, nell’ambito di un programma elaborato da Eit Health (European Institute of Innovation & Technology), in collaborazione con Cariplo Factory, Federated Innovation @Mind e l’università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II. La selezione per l’Hackathon è avvenuta tra oltre 100 studenti universitari provenienti da tutta Italia. Tema della sfida ‘Aging della popolazione e malattie croniche. AI, cybersecurity e data science per migliorare la qualità di vita dei pazienti’.
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00:00The third edition of the SYNLAB Italia hackathon has been concluded with the awarding of the REVIVA project.
00:11The competition, which also this year is held in Milan, has seen young university students challenge each other
00:16in the creation of innovative solutions on the topic of aging of the population and chronic diseases,
00:21AI, cyber security and data science to improve the quality of life of patients.
00:27The hackathon was organized in the context of a program developed by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology
00:34in collaboration with Cariplo Factory, Federated Innovation Mind and the University of Naples Federico II.
00:41This year we had a lot of applications and unfortunately we had to make some selections,
00:46but this is also the result of the great success of the initiative.
00:50For SYNLAB, the hackathon is a great opportunity to get in touch with talents
00:55and to see these guys at work creating new things.
01:00Our sector is very important and therefore it is beautiful to be with them and see the energy that these guys develop.
01:07Often there is a climate of discomfort compared to the new generation.
01:15People with white hair like me sometimes say, ah, these new generations.
01:20In reality, this is the demonstration of how instead the new generations are full of energy and desire to do
01:27and when you give them the opportunity, they put it on the field and show us what they can do, that they are real talents.
01:33So I think this is one of the commitments that companies like ours, the big companies,
01:37must take and give the opportunity to the talents to express themselves, because they are our future but also our present.
01:44Among the illustrious guests, also the entrepreneur and scientist Massimo Temporelli,
01:48who gave an important speech to the students.
01:51There were over 100 university students from all over Italy who were then selected to participate in the hackathon.
01:57Today we had the opportunity to present REVIVA, which is our project that we have developed here at the SYNLAB hackathon.
02:04REVIVA is an application that aims to allow doctors and patients to continue
02:11the rehabilitation process after having undergone an ICTUS.
02:16How does it do it? It does it using AI models that can give direct advice
02:22to the exercises that patients perform directly at home.
02:26In addition, REVIVA also aims not only to understand what physical rehabilitation is,
02:33but also in terms of language.
02:36Therefore, it is also able to give feedback on the pronunciation of words
02:41and advice to improve this aspect of rehabilitation.
02:45The idea for this application came to us after discovering that in Italy, unfortunately,
02:50many infrastructures are missing, both in terms of buildings where rehabilitation is carried out,
02:56but also of medical staff available to offer rehabilitation services.
03:00Not only that, but also financial aid is missing to continue rehabilitation within hospitals,
03:06which is a cost that the regions must support and is very high.
03:11For this reason, with REVIVA it is possible to continue this rehabilitation process at home
03:16and in this way also directly in hospitals.
03:19The health care system could take advantage of it.