Smart Health: la importancia de la transformación digital en el sector sanitario

Smart Health: La transformación digital es un proceso necesario pero, a veces, poco entendido. A menudo se ha definido como la creación, a partir de sistemas reales, físicos y tangibles, de abstracciones virtuales equivalentes a estos; esta es, sin embargo, una definición —en gran medida correspondiente al caso de los gemelos digitales, de los que ya hemos hablado en este blog — que se queda hasta cierto punto corta, puesto que también debe incluirse necesariamente la digitalización de sistemas abstractos que ya existían en formato analógico, las estructuras y espacios de datos que sirven como base para este tratamiento de la información y, por supuesto, la integración de las ventajas y oportunidades resultantes de todo este proceso.

Veamos, por ejemplo, el caso del sector sanitario. La digitalización de los datos relativos a las instalaciones hospitalarias —material, habitaciones, equipo, etc—, plantilla y pacientes cubriría lo primero que hemos comentado: elementos reales, que tendrían ahora un equivalente digital —en forma de inventario, registro de instalaciones, datos de personal e historiales médicos de pacientes.

Por su parte, la digitalización del papeleo, gestiones, servicios de información, etc es clave para una gestión hospitalaria más ágil y conlleva que la Smart Health sea imprescindible.. En servicios tan necesarios y usados por una cantidad tan amplia de personas, la automatización de servicios como las citas online, consulta de información, compartición de historiales, etc… resulta imprescindible para un uso eficiente de los recursos humanos y materiales. En un hospital inteligente, esta automatización pasa, necesariamente, por una digitalización adecuada.

Así, sólo mediante un sistema estable, estructurado y estandarizado puede servir de base para poner en  servicio todos estos elementos. Un sistema capaz de gestionar la información relativa a, a efectos prácticos, la totalidad de la población; con una estructura ágil que permita incorporar funcionalidades y servicios muy distintos —desde gestiones online a análisis masivos mediante tecnología Big Data —; y que responda a unos estándares estatales, europeos o globales que permitan la puesta en común de la información proveniente de múltiples sistemas sanitarios.

Por supuesto, en el caso concreto del sector sanitario público, la digitalización es un proceso que ya lleva mucho tiempo en marcha —una necesidad absoluta en un sistema cuya demanda tiene pocos equivalentes en otros sectores —, fruto de una inversión temprana por parte de las administraciones públicas.  Ventajas como una mejor gestión de trámites de cara a la ciudadanía, una mayor facilidad a la hora de compartir historiales entre servicios sanitarios o la agilización de los servicios e indicadores usados por los propios trabajadores de la administración, dejan constancia de que se trata de una inversión que está dando sus frutos; con un horizonte marcado por innovaciones como, por ejemplo, la implementación de sistemas de análisis, predicción y prevención basados en los datos sanitarios, queda claro que aún quedan muchas vías por las que esta transformación digital puede aportar valor a este sector.

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FIWARE SPACE

FIWARE Space is the innovation center of the Provincial Council of Badajoz to bring the new technologies of IoT and Big Data to citizens, SMEs and start-ups. It is constituted as an official Digital Innovation Hub (DIH) in Badajoz province to promote the digitization and transformation of companies through technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data and artificial intelligence with FIWARE as data connector from different sources.

This center is part of a global project called “Badajoz Es Más“, which aims to develop municipalities with a better quality of life through sustainable development. The objective is clear: to turn the province of Badajoz into an Intelligent Territory or a “Smart Province”. In order to achieve this goal, it is a must to involve the local companies, the public administration and the citizens.

FIWARE Space coordinates the activity related to the knowledge, use and possibilities offered by the Provincial Platform for Smart Management of Public Services, which allows the integration of information from different smart services in one place, to facilitate the analysis and management of services that are the responsibility of the Provincial Council of Badajoz. This platform uses the latest technologies promoted by the European Commission about how to integrate near real-time data and how to manage context information.

FIWARE Space is a non-profit innovation center that aims to make the technological knowledge and tools of the “Badajoz Es Más” project available to different entities, among which are:

 

– Public administrations
– Municipalities
– Small and medium enterprises
– The teaching and research staff of the university and other educational institutions
– The entrepreneurs
– The citizens

One of the main goals of this center is to support our small and medium enterprises through the digital transformation of the province. For this, the center offers to these entities de following services.

 

SERVICES

A 2-month mentoring program to go deeper in the technology knowledge and the opportunities that are behind the intelligent province development, to know first-hand the technological work that is being carried out and how to take advantages of this digital transformation. In these 2 months, the company will adapt its solution or service to a FIWARE smart solution, thus being compatible with the platform used by the Badajoz Provincial council that connects all the data sources of the province, and with any other smart city platform that uses this technology.

Specialized consulting and technical support for the integration of solutions in FIWARE. We help the creation and adaptation of data models, architecture knowledge and the possibilities of integrating into this European standard.

Certification of solutions in the FIWARE Marketplace website of the FIWARE Foundation. We advise on how to apply with the solution developed to obtain the different certifications.

Advice on acceleration programs. After the completion of the mentoring program, we try to find a suitable European acceleration program to take the project to the next level.

Physical location for the development of integration in FIWARE. We have a physical space in which you can work to integrate the solution into FIWARE, with the tools and support of the technical office.

Theoretical and practical training workshops. Every Friday of the year we conduct workshops to learn more about how a smart city works and what’s the technology behind.

Visits to the innovation center. Interested people or entities can visit the center once a week to see first hand the digital transformation that is taking place in the province and meet the real solutions that are being installed.

 

SPECIAL ACTIVITIES FOR PYMES

 

FIWARE Space also carries out some unique activities throughout the year:

Hackathons. Workday in which, by teams, a real technological problem is solved by multidisciplinary teams.

IoT challenge. Companies are presented to solve a real problem of the province through technology. Once the applications have been submitted, an evaluating court chooses the winner, who will receive an economic endowment to carry out his idea and put it into operation in the province.

Design Thinking Workshop. Workshop that aims to foster creativity through innovative new methodologies that will allow us to go deep in a specific challenge.

 

EVENTS

In addition to all this, FIWARE Space, in the hands of the Badajoz Provincial Council, participates in different local, national and international events in which it provides visibility to the local companies with the aim to contribute to the expansion of this companies in other regions.

Finally, it should be noted that FIWARE Space is considered as a 2-star FIWARE iHub, catalogued by the FIWARE Foundation, thanks to the work and the number of activities carried out to bring new technologies to citizens.