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TIC Salut Social hosts a digital transformation hosts at the 44th World Hospital Congress
The 44th World Hospital Congress held in Barcelona from 8 to 11 November brought together members of the International Federation of Hospitals (IHF) and the heads of hospitals, health services and health organizations. This discussion forum was used to address key factors in planning, management and financial trends at the national and international levels. This […]
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Map of Trends’ 2021 survey on Social ICTs is back on track
The Direcció General de Serveis Socials [Social Services General Directorate] and the TIC Salut Social Foundation have already launched the fourth edition of the MAp of Trends annual survey for social care services. In order to provide continuity to the research, we created a new questionnaire with the aim of expanding information on digitizalization 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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Mental Health on your phone
Do you remember the first app you installed on your smartphone? You probably don’t remember it, let alone the twentieth or thirtieth. Today we use apps for just about everything. To plan a trip, or to watch a movie. To go on a trip by motorbike, to monitor your period or to control stress. You […]
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Low technological uptake to detect positive cases of COVID-19 through contact tracing apps
The report on the Use of Contact Tracing Apps in the context of COVID-19 concludes that social ignorance and mistrust about the existence of these tools have prevented their consolidation. Over the past year and in the context of the SARS-Cov-2 pandemic, various technological solutions have been deployed around the world, such as mobile applications […]
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Catalonia is leading the way as a first step in technological prescription
The MySugr application, from Roche Diabetes Care, is the latest mobile application to successfully pass the app accreditation process of the TIC Salut Social Foundation. As we have done in the past, we wanted to talk to one of its promoters to tell us about his experience of the process. In this case, we interviewed […]
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The mConnecta project starts to bring SISCAT centres on board
On 6 October, the TIC Salut Social Foundation presented the mConnecta Platform project to the key managers and agents that make up the seven health regions of the Catalan Health Service to move towards the adherence of all the centres in Integrated Public Use Healthcare System of Catalonia (SISCAT) to mConnecta. Commissioned by CatSalut and […]
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The report on the international analysis of contact tracing apps in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic is now available
In the wake of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, many nations have focused part of their efforts on finding digital tools that allow them to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic more efficiently and use these tools to reduce the spread of the disease. Aside from news apps, the real revolution during this pandemic have been apps that allow […]
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One Touch Reveal passes the health product certification process of the TIC Salut Social Foundation
One Touch Reveal, app by LIFESCAN for the control and monitoring of diabetes has passed the health product certification process of the TIC Salut Social Foundation. On the occasion of this milestone, we talk to Nuno Lomba, Country Lead LIFESCAN Italy, Spain & Portugal, about the company’s technological solution. TICSS – Do you think […]
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“These accreditations are a guarantee for users and professionals”
Diabetis Mellitus (DM) it is a chronic disease that requires a good metabolic control to eschew or brake possible complications on a long-term basis. The patients require to control along the day their levels of blood glucose. Mobile apps and Contour (Ascensia Diabetes Care) are on ther research to improve this control. Recently Contour Diabetes […]