The everis Foundation will provide IDOVEN with €20,000 for the launch of the solution, mentorship from i-deals (everis Group) valued at €10,000, and a place in the international final of the Award, where it will compete with the winners of the national everis Award competitions in Europe and Latin America. The overall winner will receive an additional prize of €60,000 and specialized consulting.
“This year, despite the challenges posed by the pandemic, 698 entrepreneurs participated in our Awards. They all share something in common: they are able to put their talent and technology to work addressing social problems. Projects like IDOVEN help us remain committed to our Foundation's goal of helping these proposals become sustainable and viable businesses in the short term,” says Karla Alarcón, CEO of the everis Foundation. Manuel Marina, CEO of IDOVEN, adds, “Winning the everis Award helps us continue with our purpose: to make the world a better place. To innovate, at least in science, we have to create new technologies that allow us to measure things that have never been measured before. With the help of this Award, and thanks to all the people, companies, and institutions that support us, we estimate that IDOVEN will enable more than 3.5 million people to receive timely diagnoses over the next five years.”.
How it works: The user monitors their heart for days or weeks with a non-invasive Holter monitor integrated into their clothing: a sports Holter monitor or a long-term Holter monitor. The recorded electrocardiogram is analyzed by the IDOVEN team, who, with the help of their artificial intelligence algorithms, convert the patterns of millions of heartbeats into clinically relevant medical information.
This technology improves the efficiency, speed and reliability of the diagnosis of heart disease and arrhythmias, making it easier for their cardiology team, led by Dr. Manuel Marina Breysse, to detect heart disease in its early stages and prevent its progression.
The team originated from cardiology research, work they have carried out at the National Center for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC) as part of the Advanced Development Laboratory on Mechanisms and Therapies of Arrhythmias, and in various hospitals and institutions where they have worked, such as the Ciudad Real University General Hospital, the Ramón y Cajal University Hospital, the 12 de Octubre University Hospital, the San Carlos Clinical Hospital, and the Sports Medicine Center of the Spanish Agency for Health Protection in Sport (AEPSAD) of the Higher Sports Council (CSD), with elite Spanish athletes from #TeamESP. They belong to the Sports Cardiology working group of the Spanish Society of Cardiology, the European Society of Cardiology, and the Biomedical Research Networking Center for Cardiovascular Diseases (CIBERCV). And now, in these difficult times due to the Covid-19 pandemic, they believe they can be of great help, since appointments have been canceled and many patients are not going to hospitals for fear of infection. As an alternative, this monitoring service, which allows people to know the state of their heart without going to a hospital or health center, is essential. It's professional cardiology at home that eliminates risk and uncertainty and reduces congestion in hospitals and medical centers.
