Dr. Tilahun visits Heidelberg University Hospital and the SAP AppHaus

Dres. Tilahun and Bussmann at the Department of Applied Tumor Biology

Dr Binyam Chakilu TILAHUN (MPH,MSC, PHD ), Assistant professor, Institute of Public Health, University of Gondar, Ethiopia and Research Associate Institute of Medical Informatics, University of Münster  visited the ETiCCS team on 17 May 2016 to consult on the digital data collection system to be developed for the community cervical cancer screening project in the Gondar region of Ethiopia.

He also visited the SAP Design and Co-Innovation Center, based at the AppHaus in Heidelberg, where he met with Michaela Epp, SAP’s project lead for ETiCCS. Michaela showed SAP’s creative space in the old tobacco factory in Heidelberg and described the concepts behind it.

Furthermore, she explained methods, like Design Thinking, that are used by SAP’s Design Team to find innovative solutions for customer challenges. These methods were applied to design and develop the mobile cloud-based solution that was used by the ETiCCS team in Eldoret, Kenya.

Michaela Epp guides Dr. Tilahun through the SAP AppHaus in Heidelberg