Health in Your Hands - Innovating Smartphone-Based, Photonic Diagnostics for All
Health in Your Hands - Innovating Smartphone-Based, Photonic Diagnostics for All
Our Challenge
In this challenge, we’ll explore how everyday technology, like the camera and flash on your phone, can be transformed into powerful tools for early disease detection and health monitoring. Working in teams, we’ll design and prototype low-cost, accessible medical screening devices that could one day be used by anyone, anywhere. We’ll dive into cutting-edge optical techniques, collaborate with real-world health tech start-ups, and tackle one of the biggest challenges in global healthcare: making preventative care affordable and available to all. If you're passionate about innovation, equality, and building tech that truly matters—this challenge is for you!
The Team
Teamchers
These are the teamchers you'll work with on the challenge.
Learners
Challenge providers
- Study period
- 22 October – 8 December 2025
- Study format
- Blended
- Application period
- 30 June – 21 September 2025
- Credits
- 4 ECTS
- Hosting university
- Linkoping University
- Topics
Information
Value and progress
Imaging and sensing technologies
Experimentally explore the principle of operation of imaging and sensing technologies utilised in healthcare and how these relate to physiology.
ESCO SKILLS
Components of medical optical devices
Relate and utilise components of smartphones or other smart devices i.e. camera and flash to the underlying components of optical medical devices.
ESCO SKILLS
Evaluation and testing
Generate hypotheses and simple experimental methods to evaluate and test the operation of these systems.
ESCO SKILLS
Further development
Identify current limitations, future expertise, and understanding necessary to further this introductory experience towards more practical device designs and more robust medical indications. (i.e. “next steps”).
ESCO SKILLS
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Hosting university
Linkoping University
Challenge providers