TEC4HEALTH

Vision

Within TEC4Health, INESC TEC aims at becoming a key research institute with multidisciplinary advanced R&D with application in the health care providers (diagnosis and treatment); medical devices, medical informatics and pharmaceutic industry, contributing to the economic growth and sustainability, as well as to the health and well-being of the population.

Business

The research lines followed by the scientific community aim at responding to the needs of some economic and societal sectors and activities.

Main domains and sectors of activity

Health, Sports and well-being industries

Rehabilitation
High performance evaluation
Health and medical tourism

Medical Devices

Monitoring health and health conditions
Personalised medicine
Novel micro and nano biossensor devices

Ambient Assisted Living

Active and healthy aging

Pharmaceutic industry

Processes optimization

Business Partnerships

In order to transfer and implement the technology in the market, we work with companies that can be our technological partners or end users of the solution.

Scientific Community

TEC4HEALTH is developed by teams from a diversity of INESC TEC centres (CTM, C-BER, CEGI, CSIG), with external partners around a set of research lines.

Core and transversal R&D lines

Quantified self, following the trends of personalized medicine and self-monitoring activities for health sports and well-being
Snap-to and under skin advanced human sensing
Neuroengineering and human-machine symbiosis
Biomedical imaging processing
Health big data safety and security
Big health data mining
Business Analytics for clinical and operational management
Electromagnetic technology for health
Optogenetics and optonics micro and nano tools
Interoperability in Ambient Assisted Living