Ivo Fridolin: Living a healthy life is a challenge. Science does not fight death.
When looking to the future, health technologies will be a key area for the field of science as a whole. Ivo Fridolin and his teams are working to extend the span of people’s quality of life, in terms of both prevention and treatment.
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n analysis carried out last year showed that Estonians are living longer today than ever, but as much as a third of this time can be spent battling health issues. This is clearly below the European average. “The number of years we spend living healthily in Estonia is an area that needs to be addressed,” Fridolin says. This concerns people’s physical and mental well-being alike. One of the main goals of health technology research is to find ways of detecting changes in physiological systems and in their functions at an early stage, before the development of disease symptoms and pathological changes. “Information technology, especially signal-processing, has a significant part to play in our research and is needed in order for us to develop new methods and devices,” Fridolin explains, adding that the widespread
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Estonian Centre of Excellence in ICT Research
