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The HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition is the leading health information and technology conference and brings together health IT professionals, clinicians, executives and vendors from around the world. Exceptional education, world-class speakers, cutting-edge health IT products and powerful networking are hallmarks of this industry-leading conference. More than 300 education programs feature keynotes, thought leader sessions, roundtable discussions and workshops, plus a full day of preconference symposia.

EuroCIS is the leading trade fair for retail technology in Europe and reflects comprehensively and topically the dynamic pace of technological change in the retail industry. We were glad to present SensFloor Activity, our new solution for retail, to a large number of visitors.

The SMARTER LIVES is an event focusing on the challenge of demographic changes in health and social sectors as well as within the society itself.
The SMARTER LIVES AAL trade fair is open to all national and international organisations offering innovative solutions for an active and assisted life in senior age.

The visitors were able to enjoy many interesting practice and expert contributions as well as an exhibition space.

The Arab Health, largest trade fair for medical technology and healthcare in the MENA region, took place in Dubai at the end of January 2018. Future-Shape was exhibiting with its Partner 7 Dwarfs at booth Z3.A39.

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All visitors of the conference in Mannheim were able to get the latest information about new trends in conception, construction, renovation, rehabilitation and management of care facilities and nursing homes for seniors:

• New concepts for living and care solutions
• Estimation of construction costs for project development
• Innovative concepts for nursing care

… and lots more

This year, the federal Congress reflected about the many new legal regulations that could improve the situation of care for elderly people and care professionals.
The evolution of caregiver remuneration and solutions for shortage of staff in the branch was also an important topic.

Together with experts of the magazine WirtschaftsWoche, the DEKRA organisation grants this award in the field “Security at home”, among other themes. The award does not focus on products but on Best Practices. With this nomination, Future-Shape ranges among companies which have developed excellent concepts, initiatives or processes.

This prize was awarded in Düsseldorf, Böhmer Areal, on 24^th October.

Over 1.000 visitors participated in the FoKoS-Woche “Zukunft menschlich gestalten” (“Shaping a humane future”) at the University of Siegen. For a week, the visitors were able to test the trends of the future on site.

On the occasion of the largest European conference on long-term care, Future-Shape introduced the SensFloor system to the Polish market. The fair was well attended, the lectures were top-class and varied. The interest in our intelligent floor was correspondingly high, as it supports the nursing staff in their daily routine and doctors in diagnosis and treatment.

All presentations of the conference can be viewed here.

It is getting serious around new care professions

The DEMOGRAFIEKONGRESS held on 31st August and 1st September gathered more than 800 decision-makers and 100 referents at the leading congress around adapation to demographic change. Future-Shape was exhibitor in this events and presented the many possible uses of the SensFloor system in care.

Kerstin Schreyer, leader of the Bavarian State Chancellery, paid a visit to Future-Shape GmbH in Höhenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn to learn more about the company.

With a significant enhancement of the SensFloor® System, the SensFloor® Gait application for the activity monitoring, Future-Shape has won for the second time the federal prize for outstanding innovative achievements, awarded each year by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy. The Future-Shape team had the honour of receiving the innovation award during a festive ceremony taking place at the IHM, International Handcraft trade fair in Munich.

The SensFloor® System is a textile-based underlay with integrated proximity sensors, developed by Future-Shape GmbH. Whenever a person walks across the floor, signals are transmitted to a transceiver, which detects the direction and speed of the movements and recognises a person lying on the floor after a fall. The main applications for this system are the workflow optimisation, fall detection and prevention in hospitals, care and retirement homes. Now SensFloor® Gait can do even more: through a sophisticated data analysis it is now possible to realise high-resolution activity monitoring as well as gait recording. With these functions, the sensitive floor is becoming an important tool for medical staff. “Doctors or therapists can detect changes in their patients and thus quantify the efficiency of the treatments and rehabilitation measures”, explains Raoul Hoffmann, who is finalising his doctorate on this topic at Future-Shape. For Future-Shape, the federal award for innovation reaffirms the strive to pursue the development of solutions for digitalisation, the business segment of the future.