Tòpic: Hot news
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Municipal involvement in the territorial deployment of integrated social and health care
This week, provincial councils, municipal entities and the Barcelona City Council signed a protocol with the Departments of Health and Social Rights to promote the future Integrated Social and Health Care Agency. The agreement stresses the need to integrate the social and health systems, which currently constitute two separate systems,in order to provide the best […]
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The terms and conditions for the open market consultation on AI Solutions for Diabetic Retinopathy in Primary Care have been published
The Catalan Agency for Health Quality and Assessment (AQuAS) has published the terms and conditions for the open market consultation in order to check the commercial availability, or the feasibility in the market, of AI-based solutions that can be integrated into the treatment process for Diabetic Retinopathy in the Primary Care area of the Integrated […]
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As part of the digital transformation of its health system, Catalonia receives technical support from across Europe to improve the digital skills of its healthcare professionals
The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Structural Reform Support (DG REFORM), the TIC Salut Social Foundation, the Estonian Ministry of Social Affairs, with the collaboration of the company NTT DATA, the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) and the Tallinn University of Technology, have launched a two-year project to facilitate the implementation by health authorities of a […]
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Study published on the digital skills of health care professionals in Catalonia
The journal JMIR has recently published Measuring the Digital Skills of Catalan Health Care Professionals as a Key Step Toward a Strategic Training Plan: Digital Competence Test Validation Study. The study is part of the COMPDIG-Health project, Challenge 4 of the Professional Dialogue Forum, led by the TIC Salut Social Foundation. This study sought to analyse […]
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Greater quality and reliability: the Label2Enable project promotes the adoption of international standards for apps for health care use
The Tic Salut Social Foundation is collaborating with the Label2Enable project financed by the European Commission’s HORIZON-HLTH-2021 programme. In 2021 the European Committee for Standardization (CEN), in collaboration with the International Organization for Standardization) published international standards to ensure the quality and reliability of health care applications according to the Health Informatics – Part […]
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A web platform has been created to help adapt the diet of people undergoing cancer treatment
‘Eating during cancer treatment’ is a webpage promoted by the Catalunya La Pedrera Foundation and developed by Alícia to meet cancer patients’ nutritional needs. This project arises from requests by patients and caregivers who had difficulty finding reliable information to maintain optimal nutrition. They were unsure how to eat during the different treatment phases and […]
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Catalonia is again awarded the European distinction as a region of reference for active and healthy ageing
The European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing, an initiative promoted by the European Commission, has awarded the AHA Reference Site distinction to 65 regions in Europe. They include Catalonia, which has confirmed its status with the highest rating. The distinction recognises the joint work between the Department of Health, the Department of Social […]
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10 years of raising awareness of cybersecurity among European citizens
European Cybersecurity Month will be held in October. For the tenth consecutive year, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA), the European Commission and the member states will commemorate this month. The goal is to create awareness and promote cybersecurity among citizens and organisations by providing up-to-date information and publicising good practices in the digital […]
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The TIC Salut Social Foundation presents the Catalan mHealth strategy at a session of the European mHealthHUB
Recently, Carme Pratdepàdua, head of mHealth at the TIC Salut Social Foundation, presented the Catalan mHealth strategy in an online workshop organised for the European mHealthHUB by representatives of the Czech Republic’s health sector. This session took place as part of the online Hub Czech Republic supporting workshop (2022), which can be seen here. Firstly, […]
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Girona is leading a new European project to improve the diagnosis and treatment of obstructive sleep apnea
It is estimated that one in four people between the ages of 30 and 70 suffer from obstructive sleep apnea, an underdiagnosed disorder that leads to high mortality and morbidity if not treated in time. The project will lead to the creation of an expert sleep virtual unit and will introduce the figure of the […]