Customer story
European collaboration to develop new remote non-invasive monitoring solutions for mothers and babies
"Spinverse has been supporting us every step of the way during our EU-funded consortium project in which we are partners. Their expertise and reliability in project management services have been something we can truly count on. Working with Spinverse has been easy, professional – and even fun. Their responses come faster than from AI! Getting service in Finnish has been a practical benefit in our day-to-day operations."
Joni Hirviniemi, Integration Lead, Healthcare Services, Fujitsu.
Customer story in numbers
22
Total budget M€
3
Years
28
Partners
6
Countries
Funding instrument
Chips JU
Newlife is an ambitious Chips JU (earlier KDT JU) project aiming to secure the health of mothers and their babies by developing novel holistic monitoring solutions. Newlife project partners will together demonstrate different technologies to enable early and non-invasive detection of risk factors in pregnancies and for newborn babies.
Key challenges
In Europe, about five million infants are born every year and of these, up to 10% are born pre-term, presenting a severe cost burden to health care. This burden is not only due to immediate short-term costs of intensive neonatal care but more importantly due to long-term adverse effects and complications. Many pre-term births could be prevented with careful pregnancy monitoring and early prediction and detection of risks and complications using digital technologies. Newlife is set to solve this challenge when life is at its most vulnerable phase.
How we reached the goals
Spinverse supported the consortium during the competitive funding application process. Upon the positive funding decision, the project will be managed by Spinverse who is responsible for the professional project management in the project.
Key takeaways
With the developed solutions, the Newlife project will contribute to the disruption of health monitoring models by focusing on preventive actions rather than treating diseases, and by moving healthcare from hospitals to home environment. The technologies and solutions are demonstrated in five use cases for both hospitals and home environments (personalized monitoring): 1) Pregnancy & parent companion; 2) Smart garment for monitoring pregnancies & complications; 3) Fetal monitoring patch for high-risk pregnancies; 4) Newborn monitoring with smart clothes; and 5) Newborn monitoring — wellbeing in bed.
Impact of the project
Safeguard the life and wellbeing of newborn babies and their mothers