About

HiSpin makes health data management systems interoperable, enabling secure access to patients’ health information. HiSpin is a spin-off of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, exploiting over 20 years of experience in connected health solutions. The company's first product is CiviCARE, a self-maintained personal health record that brings together, in one place, all health information of an individual. Patients can securely share their data with health care professionals of their choice, providing a 360 view of their health status and improving clinical decision making. CiviCARE is aimed at all citizens, but especially at those with increased medical care needs, such as patients with chronic conditions (e.g., diabetes, hypertension, obesity, heart and respiratory diseases). HiSpin adopts established standards such as HL7-FHIR and international terminologies (e.g., LOINC, SNOMED CT) making health data available and understandable by clinicians and AI systems, anywhere and anytime.

Solution & Product

1)Custom Data Management Solutions 2)Personal Health Record 3)Telehealth platform

Innovation & Scalability

HiSpin adopts established standards such as HL7-FHIR and international terminologies (e.g., LOINC, SNOMED CT) making health data available and understandable by clinicians and AI systems, anywhere and anytime.

Traction & achievements

WELMO is an EU project that develops a wearable vest with integrated miniaturized sensors that record electrical impedance tomography (EIT) and sound signals for real-time evaluation of respiratory conditions. We have designed the architecture of WELMO, developed the data management system based on established standards and developed the Android-based Patient App connecting to the vest and other external medical devices. CoCross is a platform that integrates in-ICU measurements from multiple sources (e.g. DICOM image series, auscultation sounds, oximetry measurements, ventilator parameters) offering real-time review and analysis of chest sounds and imaging for COVID-19 patients. We have developed all the platform's components, namely, the CoCross4Pros native android application, a modular application, managing the interaction with portable medical devices, the cloud-based data management services built-upon HL7 FHIR and ontologies and, the web-based application for intensivists, providing real-time review and analytics of the acquired measurements and auscultations. CoCross has been successfully deployed in four ICUs in Greece (G. Papanikolaou Hospital, Evaggelismos Hospital, Alexandroupolis Univ. Hospital, AHEPA Univ. Hospital) and in one pulmonology clinic in Portugal (Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra) resulting into a dynamic, unified, and annotated database that can be further exploited for COVID-19 research.

Team & Why Us

Leandros Stefanopoulos is an entrepreneur for more than 14 years and skilful web and mobile app developer in healthcare, Leandros brings in experience both in business operations and technology. In HiSpin he sets overall directions in all aspects of the company. He holds a BSc in Mathematics and an MSc in Medical Informatics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Vassilis Kilintzis specializes in medical data management and mHealth and has long expertise in HL7-FHIR implementation. He has been technical coordinator in telehealth research projects and developed mHealth applications in a variety of platforms and programming languages. Vassilis holds a MSc and PhD in Medical informatics from the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki. Eirini Lekka has more than 20 years experience in telehealth research and innovation. Focusing on chronic disease management, she has lead the development of mobile health and cloud solutions that can improve patient care. She has been technical coordinator in FP7 and Horizon EU research projects and has written succesful EU funding proposals. Eirini holds a BSc in Physics and an MSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in USA. Nicos Maglaveras has long experience in telehealth research and in running competing research projects, Nicos drives company's vision and sets scientific directions. He is professor in Medical Informatics at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Funding Needs

Capital costs (equipment) Revenue costs (salaries, office costs, other running costs) Project or core costs