To reduce the bacterial load in infected wounds, particularly diabetic foot ulcers. This is the problem being tackled by Azyro, a Luxembourg-based company honoured on Wednesday 30 September at Healthcare Week Luxembourg. It won the Luxembourg Healthtech Adoption Award from a shortlist of 15 exhibitors competing for the event’s three prizes.

Its device generates magnetic fields, which are used in conjunction with antiseptics. According to the press release, this combination destroys the biofilm and enhances the action of the antiseptics. The result therefore depends on the combined use of both, a point highlighted in the presentation of the technology.

Two Belgian companies round off the list of winners. Kando has won the Europe Healthtech Adoption Award with a platform that connects healthcare, technical and communication systems within care homes without requiring them to replace their existing tools. Accessible via smartphone, tablet and computer, it integrates with the Kando Box to coordinate care and daily activities.

195 votes cast

Brainphonics has won the Health Week Luxembourg Visitors’ Choice Award for Corgee, a hearing test designed for children whose responses do not allow for a reliable conventional assessment. The solution uses brain activity to measure their ability to hear and understand speech. It is already in use in clinical practice.

A total of 195 votes were cast: 94 by healthcare professionals for the two Adoption Awards and 101 by visitors for the Visitors’ Choice Award. The awards are supported by the Luxembourg ministry of the Economy and the “Let’s Make It Happen” initiative.

This fourth edition of Healthcare Week Luxembourg, organised at Luxexpo the Box by the Federation of Luxembourg Hospitals (FHL) in partnership with the agency Quinze Mai, brings together the health, research and industrial sectors, as well as public authorities. The federation represents all the country’s hospitals, which employ around 9,000 people and are home to more than 1,000 specialist doctors.