The Galician Association of Relatives of Alzheimer’s Patients and other Dementias (AFAGA) is organising the 19th edition of its annual conference on 26 November. With this event, AFAGA Alzheimer’s continues to create a space for meetings and specialised training, where health and social-health professionals can reflect on the current situation and future challenges in dementia […]
21 Nov 2022 AFAGA, Alzheimer, Conference
Once again, and this is the seventh edition, we attended the RIES2022 Forum, held on 26th and 27th October in Santiago de Compostela. The aim of this edition was to address cutting-edge health, with the innovative solutions that have been developed to improve care and the challenge of matching this progress with an impact on […]
10 Nov 2022 Galicia Health Cluster, RIES Forum
Parkinson’s disease lacks sensitive, objective, and reliable measures for disease progression and response. This presents a challenge for clinical trials given the multifaceted and fluctuating nature of disease symptoms. Innovations in digital health and wearable sensors promise to more precisely measure aspects of patient function and well-being. A recent study from Verily Life Sciences presents […]
15 Jun 2022 Parkinson, Sensorization
Cybersecurity has become one of the most relevant issues in recent times. The emergence of COVID-19 has accelerated the adoption of telemedicine and digital health services, bringing to light security breaches in the healthcare sector, increasing attacks on healthcare services and healthcare organizations in a very worrying way. This statement is confirmed by data published […]
27 Apr 2022 Cybersecurity, IoT
The application of Big Data and artificial intelligence technologies in the healthcare sector has achieved great advances in recent years at an organisational and healthcare level, with highly relevant innovations for medicine, science and research. With these techniques, it is possible to obtain better diagnoses, better treatments and better lines of research more quickly and […]
9 Mar 2022 Artificial intelligence, Big Data, Data Lake, Electronic health record, Interoperability, machine Learning
The ageing of the population and the consequent increase in chronic illnesses have a direct impact on the costs and investment faced by health services. On the other hand, patient expectations in terms of the quality of care received are growing every day, demanding better outcomes and treatments as well as simpler and more convenient […]
14 Feb 2022 CloudComputing, Interoperability, IoT, mhealth
2022 marks the second full year of the COVID-19 pandemic, and it continues to dominate health systems’ attention and resources. Despite COVID-19’s many devastating impacts, it does present the health care sector with a powerful opportunity to accelerate innovation and reinvent itself. COVID-19 has accelerated numerous health care trends, being catalyst to initiate and accelerate […]
27 Jan 2022 AVECEN, COVID-19, e-pD-Work, Mental Health, mhealth
SARS-CoV-2 is a virus whose primary means of transmission has been demonstrated to be via the airborne route [Transmission of SARS-CoV-2: implications for infection prevention precautions]. In contrast to an initial belief that transmission without direct contact was considered to be due to contact with contaminated surfaces, the current consensus now accepts the hypothesis of […]
17 Jan 2022 COVID-19
Once again this year we attended the Forum #RIES 2021, held on 10 and 11 November at the Mondariz Balneario, a thermal reference in Europe since the end of the 19th century. Led by the CSG (Cluster Saúde de Galicia), the Forum RIES has been created as a meeting forum between the main agents of […]
14 Dec 2021 Galicia Health Cluster, RIES Forum
Smartphones are now nearly ubiquitous; their numerous built-in sensors enable continuous measurement of activities of daily living, making them especially well-suited for health research. Progress in science has always been driven by data. More than 5 billion mobile devices were in use in 2020 (Association, G. The mobile economy 2020), with multiple sensors (e.g. accelerometer […]
25 Oct 2021 cardiology, IoT, machine Learning, Mental Health, R+D+i, smartphone