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Biomedical Engineering Seminar - 14 December 2023
2023-11-27
Welcome to the next talk of The Biomedical Engineering Seminar Series at the Ångström Laboratory where Alina Sekretareva from the Department of Chemistry, Uppsala University will give a seminar entitled "Single-Entity Bioelectrochemistry: From Fundamental Studies of Biomolecules to Ultrasensitive Biosensors" on the 14th of December, 12:00-13:00 (CET)
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Biomedical Engineering Seminar - 9 November 2023
2023-10-24
Welcome to the next talk of The Biomedical Engineering Seminar Series at the Ångström Laboratory where Robin Augustine from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Uppsala University will give a seminar entitled "Fat – Intra Body Communication: A new paradigm for intra-body communication technology enabling reinstatement of lost functionalities in humans" on the 9th of November, 12:15-13:00 (CET)
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Biomedical Engineering Seminar - 12 October 2023
2023-09-28
Welcome to the next talk of The Biomedical Engineering Seminar Series at the Ångström Laboratory where Jenny Malmström from the University of Auckland will give a seminar entitled "Hydrogels with spatial and temporal control over mechanical properties" on the 12th of October, 12:15-13:00 (CET)
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AIMday: Health care needs - 15 November 2023
2023-09-27
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Biomedical Engineering Seminar - 14 September 2023
2023-09-05
Welcome to the next talk of The Biomedical Engineering Seminar Series at the Ångström Laboratory where Maria Sörby, Director Clinical Research, and Elisabeth Palmcrantz-Graf, Project Manager Clinical Research, both from Uppsala Clinical Research Center, will give a seminar entitled "Clinical trials for medical device – how is it done?" on the 14th of September, 12:15-13:00 (CET)
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Biomedical Engineering Seminar - 4 May 2023
2023-05-02
Welcome to the next talk of The Biomedical Engineering Seminar Series at the Ångström Laboratory where Dr. Niklas Sandström, Dept. of Applied Physics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SciLifeLab, will give a seminar entitled Longitudinal screening and high-resolution imaging in microwells of 2D/3D live immune cell assays on the 4th of May, 12:15-13:15 (CET)
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MedTech Science and Innovation Day 2023
2023-03-07
The Uppsala MedTech Science and Innovation Centre is hosting a one-day conference on Wednesday, April 26, 2023. With this conference we aim to bring together people working in the MedTech field here in Uppsala, inform about various ongoing works, and spark new collaborations between the University Hospital and researchers at Uppsala University. The theme of this year's conference is "MedTech within distributed health care", which focuses on bringing MedTech and health care closer to the patient.
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Josefin Hagström awarded the Peter L Reichertz Young Scientist Prize
2023-05-28
MTSI are very proud to announce that PhD candidate Josefin Hagström was awarded the Peter L Reichertz Young Scientist Prize at the MIE2023 conference in Gothenburg.
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Charlotte Blease awarded visiting research grant
2022-12-12
Charlotte Blease and Maria Hägglund has been awarded a visiting researcher grant from the Disciplinary Domain of Medicine and Pharmacy at Uppsala University.
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VR-funding to study documentation errors and patients online record access
2022-12-08
The Participatory e-health and health data research group, led by Maria Hägglund, has been granted funding from the Swedish research council (VR) for a 3-year project aiming to explore how we can use patients’ online record access to find and address documentation errors that could lead to patient safety issues and harm. Participating researchers are Anna Kharko, Charlotte Blease, and Sara Riggare.
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Annika Bärkås will present a study in a SFMI webinar
2022-12-05
Thursday 8th of December, Annika Bärkås will present one of her studies in a SFMI webinar.
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Annika Bärkås presents at HIC Conversations seminar
2022-04-21
On the 28 April 2022 at 12.00-13.00, Annika Bärkås, PhD student at MedTech Science and Innovation Centre, Uppsala University, will present her research on patients' online access to their mental health records at Karolinska Institutet, Health Informatics Centre's seminar series HI Conversations.
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Welcome to a new seminar series on the topic of Biomedical Engineering!
2022-03-29
This seminar series is brought to you by the Division of Biomedical Engineering, Dept. Materials Science and Engineering and MedTech Science & Innovation Centre, with the aim of bringing together people at UU and beyond with an interest in biomedical engineering and to share news on the research that is going on across the university in this area.
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Uppsala MedTech Science & Innovation Day April 26
2022-02-24
The Uppsala MedTech Science and Innovation Centre is hosting a one-day conference on Tuesday, April 26, 2022. With this conference we aim to bring together people working in the MedTech field here in Uppsala, inform about various ongoing works, and spark new collaborations between the University Hospital and researchers at Uppsala University.
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Sara Riggare's Dissertation & Personal Science Symposium
2022-02-24
Sara Riggare will defend a PhD thesis that was based on self-research. By means of self-tracking she was able to get a grip on the medication she requires to keep the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease at bay. To celebrate this unique PhD ceremony there will be a Personal Science Symposium in the afternoon between 3 - 5 pm CET. During this online symposium several great speakers will share their view on this emerging field of personal knowledge creation.
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Scoping review on patients access to mental health records
2021-12-22
Annika Bärkås at MTSI is shared first author on a recently published scoping review. The research was performed partly within the NORDeHEALTH project, and is the first scoping review study collating existing evidence about sharing EHRs or clinical notes with people treated for mental health conditions.
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European Patient Forum Congress
2021-10-06
Maria Hägglund, PI for NORDeHEALTH, will deliver a Keynote speech as part of a Plenary Session at the EPF Congress on October 26th 13.00-14.00 CET.
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New study published on Patients’ Access to Their Psychiatric Notes
2021-09-06
Annika Bärkås is the first author of this publication exploring how patients are given access to their electronic health records from psychiatric care across Sweden.
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Opinion piece on NORDeHEALTH project in the BMJ
2021-05-24
Maria Hägglund has published an opinion piece on the NORDeHEALTH project in the BMJ.
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MTSI at Vitalis 2021
2021-05-17
Vitalis is the largest Nordic eHealth conference and researchers from the implementation and eHealth group will be participating in two sessions.
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New article in the Journal of Medical Ethics
2021-05-16
Maria Hägglund is one of the co-authors for a new publication in the Journal of Medical Ethics where the authors argue that denying patients online access to their health records can be seen as a case of epistemic injustice.
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New paper in JMIR mental health: Preparing Patients and Clinicians for Open Notes in Mental Health
2021-04-20
Maria Hägglund co-authored an article exploring international experts opinions on preparing patients and clinicians for patients' online access to the notes in their record in a mental health context.
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New article on patient perspectives of digital health for Parkinson’s disease
2021-04-05
Maria Hägglund and Sara Riggare are coauthors of an article on patient perspectives of digital health for Parkinson’s disease that was recently published in the Journal of Parkinson’s disease.
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New publication in Implementation Science Communications
2021-02-12
Irene Muli has co-authored an article "Determinants for the use and de-implementation of low-value care in health care: a scoping review’’ published in Implementation Science Communications.
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Book chapter in "Medicinsk Informatik"
2021-02-08
Maria Hägglund has co-authored a book chapter for a revised version of THE Swedish book on medical informatics; “Medicinsk Informatik”, together with Åsa Cajander, Isabella Scandurra and Axel Wolf.
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New MedTech Science and Innovation PhD School
2021-02-05
Are you a PhD student with a project in the field of medical technology. Check out this opportunity to apply for a PhD School organized by Medtech Science & Innovation center (MTSI) at Uppsala University.
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New publication in Frontiers Public Health
2021-02-03
Maria Hägglund is a co-author of the opinion article “Does Patient Access to Clinical Notes Change Documentation?”, which has been published in Frontiers Public Health.
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Lunch webinar Digital Care February 19
2021-01-18
Researchers from the MedTech Center participate in the Swedish Collaboration on Digital Care Research. We will start a series of lunch webinars with presentations of new research related to digital care. 19th of February 12.45-13.00 is our first webinar, where professor Åsa Cajander, Uppsala University, will present a study on how a chat function affected the work environment of healthcare professionals at 1177.
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Kick-off NORDeHEALTH
2021-01-11
1st of January 2021 was the starting point of an exciting new Nordic research project lead by Maria Hägglund from the MedTech Center, NORDeHEALTH, and today we had our kick-off meeting.
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New publication in Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
2020-12-29
Maria Hägglund is the first author of the article “Mobile Access and Adoption of the Swedish National Patient Portal”, which has been published in Studies in Health Technology and Informatics.
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Annika Bärkås accepted to doctoral education at Uppsala University
2020-12-17
The MedTech research team is growing - we are celebrating the registration of a new doctoral student!
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Workshop and presentation at EFM Special Topic Conference
2020-11-24
26-27th November 2020, Uppsala MedTech will be presenting work at the Special Topic Conference hosted by the European Federation of Medical Informatics (EFMI).
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Irene Muli accepted to doctoral education at Uppsala University
2020-10-28
We are celebrating the first PhD student associated with Uppsala MedTech Science & Innovation Center!
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New publication in Nature Medicine
2020-10-09
Sara Riggare has published a World View article in Nature Medicine entitled: Patient researchers - the missing link?
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Collaboration with Open Notes at Harvard Medical School
2020-09-14
Maria Hägglund, Senior Lecturer in Implementation Science and Associate Professor in Health Informatics, was a visiting researcher in the US during the academic year of 2019/2020.
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New publication in Lancet Psychology
2020-08-20
Maria Hägglund is a co-author for the article “Sharing notes with mental health patients: balancing risks with respect”, which has been published in the scientific journal Lancet Psychiatry.
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Inauguration 14 June 2017
2017-06-14
Medtech Science & Innovation was inaugurated on 14 June at the University Hospital by Vice-Chancellors Johan Tysk and Stellan Sandler together with Hospital Director Per Elowsson.