On Friday, ORF's "Mayrs Magazin – Wissen für alle" featured a segment showing how patients in rehab are supported in their recovery through digital games.

Patients train on a balance board—while, for example, participating in a ski race on the screen. Sensors track their movements, and software turns this into a serious game.

The goal: to make rehabilitation exercises more motivating and tailored to individual needs—both in the clinic and, eventually, at home.

Behind this development is the collaboration between rehabilitation centers and INSO, RISE's research and science division. And this highlights a side of RISE that may be less well known. RISE Health is not just about ePA, HealthID, and telematics infrastructure. For more than 20 years, we have been combining applied research with the development of concrete technologies for medicine and healthcare.

This applies to everything from medical apps to therapeutic aids. The focus is on questions such as: How can sensors track movements during rehabilitation? How can patients be motivated to do exercises over the long term? How can "serious games" be turned into truly useful therapeutic applications? And how can research be translated from the lab into everyday clinical practice?

INSO was founded in 2004 and grew out of research activities at RISE, whose roots date back to the 1990s.

Today, this spectrum ranges from medical hardware, sensor technology, and serious games to digital health applications and the large-scale infrastructure of the healthcare system.

We don’t see this as a contradiction. On the contrary: Anyone building digital health infrastructure should understand what happens at the other end of that infrastructure - among patients, therapists, and within the healthcare system.

The latest ORF report (German, starting at 00:34) offers a brief glimpse into this process: Research → Product development → Medical application → Real-world care.

And sometimes this research looks just like a ski race on a balance board.