The Fraternidad-Muprespa Havana Hospital hosts the Health It 2019 conference

The event on the evolution and transformation of new technologies in the health sector was held in one of the four most sustainable and digitalized hospitals in the world, the Fraternidad-Muprespa Havana Hospital.

The event was led by Fernando Muñoz, director of IDG Research and VP of CIO Executive Council Spain.

The welcome was made Carlos Aranda, Managing Director of Fraternidad-Muprespa, who presented the Hospital, noting that it has been considered one of the four most sustainable hospitals in the world, under the LEED HEALTCARE PLATINUM certification. Aranda has also highlighted that thanks to this commitment made by the Mutua, there is an energy saving of 43 percent.

Subsequently Fernando Maldonado, Principal Analyst and Alberto Belle, principal Analyst at IDG Research, have explained that there are two worlds, that of analogue and digital healthcare that must become one, highlighting that "the work environment is a system and that innovation occurs by combination", finally they have highlighted the importance of the customer experience.

“How the Digital Hospital is integrated into the design and construction of the building” was the title of the presentation given by Pedro Serrera, deputy general director of Information Systems and Services at The heart of the Hospital is an Ethernet LAN Network; the market rules; interoperability; the patient is more autonomous, demanding, demanding and requires more security and is also hyper connected; The last one would be the health professional who works in the digital hospital and requires us to be so.      

A panel of ICT experts moderated by Fernando Muñoz, director of IDG Research and VP of the CIO Executive Council, in which they have participated Carlos Illana, Head of Product at GMV who explained the evolution and developments of radiotherapy in the cure of cancer and Salvador Vera, CEO of Mysphera, who has spoken about the automation of health products and has exposed the patient geolocation system within the Fraternidad-Muprespa Havana Hospital.

Esteban Mate, Deputy Director General of Management at Bernardo Valdivieso, director of the Home Care and Telemedicine area of ​​the Hospital La Fe in Valencia, has contributed that we must measure and orient ourselves to the value of the new paradigm that is data "the new oil", we must invest in Big data and provide new data scientists, generating new capabilities, analyze the why, predict if the information is good and make new prescriptions.Miguel Ángel Julve, director of the Madrid Campus of Sanitas, has explained how to manage patients remotely in a digital hospital, the “hospital without a brick”, through video consultations, with more than 30 specialties, home care, integrating with Connected Health, the chronic chronic program is also included and on the other hand, home hospitalization, all with the program that both patients and caregivers can use through a smartphone. “It is a valuable solution for the patient.”Alvaro Minuesa, head of the Traumatology service at the Fraternidad-Muprespa Habana Hospital, has presented the integrated operating rooms of the Hospital. He has insisted that the first thing we need is to have all the patient's information so that he feels safer. Doctors are also safer because all the images are recorded and sent to the PACS. The second point that is of great importance is communication and teaching, images from the operating room can be transmitted in real time creating participatory medicine, and finally the control of the processes to "recover better and in less time."

The SEIS 2018 Index Presentation has been made Francisco Martínez del Cerro, coordinator of the Board of Directors at the Spanish Health Informatics Society (SEIS). The SEIS 2018 Index is a real photo of the health data of the health system of the autonomous communities, it has declared that "despite having increased investment in ICT in the health sector by 4.78%, it is clearly insufficient."

The round table on “Digital Transformation in Health” formed by Fernando Mugarza, Director of Development of the IDIS Foundation who acted as moderator who expressed that “digital technology and artificial intelligence are the bases of this debate.”Pedro Lara, head of the Oncology service at the San Roque Hospital in Las Palmas, has asserted that "the digital transformation in the treatment of cancer with radiotherapy in an increasingly older population is automating processes. "Doctors have to dedicate themselves to caring for patients, and have more security." Intraoperative radiotherapy is an advance in technology "because you leave the operating room with the radiotherapy already applied."Maria Luisa Gandia, a neurosurgeon at the La Paz University Hospital, has insisted that "surgery is something very manual, very technical, but what technology gives us are safer, faster, more precise procedures and with economic savings. The patient wants the best technology."Jose Manuel Morales, head of the ICT service at the Rio Hortega University Hospital in Valladolid, has spoken about the digital transformation that medicine is undergoing exponentially, “the most important thing is the orchestration of this transformation and it is society that is demanding changes from us.”

The event was closed by Fernando Muñoz, director of IDG Research and VP of CIO Executive Council Spain.