Digital Health Platforms 

I have been an active member of the DiHeco network since July 2021. DiHeco stands for Digital Health Ecosystems and is an EU Horizon 2020 project that funds research and capability building in the area of digital health platforms and ecosystems. The five university members are:

•  Kaunas University of Technology (Lithuania), which is the lead member and coordinator. Apart from learning about how EU grants work, I actively took part in organizing two conferences facilitated by this university: the 2021 IEEE Conference TEMS-ICTE and the 2023 IEEE Conference TEMS-ICTE.

• University of Montpellier (France), where I worked as a research fellow linked to Diheco from July 2021 to January 2023. With my supportive colleagues at Montpellier, we published a paper in Technovation about how online user ratings and comments on hospitals can serve as a tool to improve healthcare through innovation (and how this tool is still under-used as of now!).

• University Autonoma of Barcelona, (Spain), where all of us at Diheco attended a tailored workshop for how to do Systematic Literature Reviews (SLR) using the related software, and how to publish SLRs that make an impact on subsequent research in the field

• Lund University, (Sweden), where we all learned about writing successful grant applications (EU grants) and we also received personalized training on how to communicate the findings of our research via leading portals such as The Conversation. One example is my co-authored article (With Dr. Sea Bez and Dr. Irene Georgesu) 

• Tampere University, (Finland), where we all mutually learned from each other when discussing "Explainable AI", particularly in healthcare. I also got to present my startup team MedicAI.