Tòpic: Digital Transformation
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Partnership agreement between TIC Salut Social foundation and COMB [Official College of Doctors of Barcelona]
TIC Salut Social foundation and the Official College of Doctors of Barcelona (COMB) signed a partnership agreement. The goal is identifying, defining, coordinating and implementing projects and joint actions in order to promote innovation initiatives by means of ICT’s in healthcare as a strategy to improve healthcare services quality. The agreement will ensure the previous […]
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X-eHealth Innovation Day
The X-eHealth project will organize the Innovation Day 2021 – Towards a European Electronic Health Record Exchange Format Community event, on the 7th of October, via zoom. The exchange of EHR in a Common Framework can be greatly enhanced at the national level if relevant stakeholders are made aware and brought to the co-development process. […]
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Abbott Lab’s FreeStyle Librelink gets the TIC Salut Social’s quality label for healthcare apps
On the 15th July, the ‘FreeStyle Librelink App’ for Diabetes monitoring overcame the certification process of the TIC Salut Social Foundation. This app got a certification as a healthcare product. It has been evaluated to be used with the glucose monitoring sensors in interstitial liquid and FreeStyle Libre 2. It enables calculating the user’s levels […]
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Speech-based support system to monitor patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) suffer from voice changes differentlythan the healthy population. However, two questions remain to be studied: how long-term speech elements such as prosody are affected; and whether physical effort and medication also affect the speech of patients with COPD and, if so, how an automatic speech-based COPD detection system […]
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UK adequacy decision
The European Commission has the right to determine, on the basis of Article 45 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), whether a country outside the EU offers an adequate level of data protection or not. The EC has so far recognised Andorra, Argentina, Canada (commercial organisations), the Faroe Islands, Guernsey, Israel, Man Island, Japan, […]
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The Data Protection’s Impact Assessment tool on healthcare research and innovation projects now available in Spanish and English
Barcelona, May 19th. The tool and the methodology to conduct Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIA) in the field of healthcare is now available both in Spanish and English. These resources, which were initially published in Catalan and in open access, are the result of the collaboration between TIC Salut Social Foundation’s Data Protection Officer and […]
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Online training in data protection regulations
During the first quarter of the year, the Office of the Healthcare DPO, together with UOC Corporate, have developed different multimedia materials for online training in data protection regulations.The aim is to promote and encourage professionals in the health sector to be up-to-date in their knowledge of the principles, rights and obligations set out in […]
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The Office of the DPO imparts training on Data Protection Impact Assessments
On 19 March 2021, the Office of the Healthcare DPO offered a training session on Data Protection Impact Assessments at the Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital. The event was attended by Dr Itziar de Lecuona, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences – University of Barcelona (UB) and Deputy Director of […]
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Presentation of the Impact Assessment Methodology related to the Protection of Health Data
An online webinar was held on March 9 to present the Impact Assessment Methodology related to the Protection of Health Data. The open event was attended by a total of 416 people. Promoted by the office of the Data Protection Officer, it counted on the participation of the Observatory of Bioethics and Law of the […]
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Privacy in online meetings
On 18 February, the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) published a press release [1] which included a list of basic tips and precautions for conducting online meetings, whose use has soared due to COVID-19, while ensuring security and privacy: Follow your organization’s policies for online meetings, using only the tool and devices approved and/or provided […]