ICT applied to the health sector, the main theme at the Women 360º Congress

Continuing with one of the main missions of the Women 360⁰ Congress, the contribution of women experts in technological innovation for health and medicine will be revalued. The day will begin with an opening session with Mercè Conesa, President of Barcelona Provincial Council; Teresa M. Pitarch, president of the Catalan Women’s Institute; Núria Bosch, vice-president of the Pharmaceutical College of Barcelona; and Rosa Cuscó, director and co-founder of the Women 360° Congress. The conference will be followed by a panel of professionals of recognised national and international prestige, including Dr. Francesc García Cuyàs, Director of the Fundació TicSalut, Dr. Manel Esteller, Dr. Manel Esteller, director of the Cancer Epigenetics and Biology program of the Bellvitge Biochemical Research Institute (IDIBELL), and Dr. Maite Garolera, head of the Neuropsychology Unit of the Terrassa Health Consortium.

Dr. Francesc García Cuyàs will speak about Digital Transformation, People, ICT and data. In his talk, García Cuyàs will analyse how the ICT strategy has been embedded within the Catalan Health Plan and how it has moved from a reactive model based on seeking information to a proactive model where the system anticipates and gives information to the professionals or the citizen. He will also introduce the future challenges to be achieved in this field, such as artificial intelligence with self-learning of systems and self-deployed sensors to have an integrated health system.

ICT in patient care

In Spain, 39% of citizens have a chronic disease and these account for between 70% and 80% of health expenditure. More than 30% of the public budget of Catalonia is currently devoted to the care of chronic patients. Dr. Maite Garolera will talk about the challenges that new technologies can contribute to solving, providing complementary models of care that can contribute to modifying the exchange of information and increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of health resources. Telemedicine, big data for information analysis, serious games and health applications burst in to offer new forms of patient care.

Apps and health

The day will also host several sessions dedicated to health apps that help citizens, such as MedicSen, Medipremium, and Bwom. There will also be talk about the Technovation Challenge Project and ‘Girls for a change’, which unites technology and entrepreneurship, suggesting that girls aged 10 to 18 might create a mobile application to solve a social problem among the Goals for Sustainable Development of the United Nations, Health being one such goal.

About the Women 360º Congress

The Women 360º Congress, the first congress of health, well-being and enterprise for women managers and entrepreneurs, appears as a space of communication and knowledge exchange. The goal of the congress is to offer a space for interaction with other women entrepreneurs with common interests, to address issues of concern to women about health, business, well-being and beauty, offering relevant information from recognised professionals, and concluding with solutions; as well as giving greater social and business visibility to women.