ARTICLE - JANUARY 15, 2024 - ASSOCIAZIONE SIE
Previeni, the startup that uses electronics for preventive diagnosis
Before it became Rilemo, the company was called Previeni. The Italian electronics society SIE tells how Nadim Conti and Alessia Rosa started it.
Read the full article on associazione-sie.itAssociazione SIE, the Italian electronics society, profiles Previeni, the startup that later became Rilemo, through its co-founder Nadim Conti, an electronics engineer trained at Politecnico di Milano, and Alessia Rosa, a doctor specialised in emergency medicine.
The idea came from Conti’s work designing detectors at CERN: the two realised that the electronics used there could also serve first-level, preventive diagnosis. The article describes a portable imaging device that uses non-ionising electromagnetic waves. At the time, the team was focusing on the first-level detection of pulmonary oedema.