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Personalization and precision. These are the ways in which different technologies can be applied and applied to digitalisation in all health care sectors. “The confluence of new technologies like internet de las cosas [IoT por sus siglas en inglés], artificial intelligence, analysis of data or connectivity 5G is impulsive to the great velocity of the digitization of the health sector ”, assured in its interview with D + I Andrés Saborido, Global Director of Wayra, el pivot point of Telephony-based innovation, with the motive of World Health Day.
And it has been in the last 12 months that the adoption of technology in this sector has accelerated with the change in our habitats during the pandemic. No matter, Saborido points out that from Telephony is “manyos años invirtiendo af e-health to the importance that it has for miles of millions of people and the great digitization opportunities que presenta ”.
Hecho, the person in charge of this accelerator of the Spanish multinational recorded that one of the first inversions made in Spain to launch Wayra in 2011 through Tedcas, a technology touchless (without contact) to improve the interfaces that use the medicines and avoid contact risks.
As a result, in this decade, Telefonica has invested mainly in the ways of Wayra and the fund management of Telefónica Ventures, over five million euros in 60 startups, with the aim of implementing its innovations to its customers, following “the model that is known as abierta innovation”.
In this sense, I believe that the future, and the present, of this sector “will be impulsive by the dates with cloudy solutions in the cloud y el artificial intelligence use respond to clinical decisions, help vending machine processes and will promote the participation of the patient ”.
Cómo leads startups to innovate in health
Saborido recognizes that its startups are leading the way in the development of innovation in the health sector, above all, in these five ambitions: medical diagnostic technologies; medical consultations in remote; physical and mental welfare research; mayor of mayors, and hospital management.
Advances in genetics and data analysis favor him medical diagnostic technologies with solutions like the startups MadeOfGenes (genetic analysis), TestCard (orange analysis), Loop medical (indangible song extraction), iGluco (glucose without pinchazo), Arkangel.ai (diagnostic based on artificial intelligence) or Idoven.ai ( cardiology study at home).
This time, one of the tendencies with the mayor’s impulse during the pandemic has been one of the medical consultations remotely. “The recent launch of Movistar Salud here in Spain, in collaboration with Teladoc is a clear example,” said Saborido.
Asimismo, también distaca en este campo empresas empridas en Latinoamérica, como Colombia la inversión en 1DOC3, una plata de salud que conecta a sus usuarios con médicos y que de forma anonio crecimiento.
Respect for the busqueda of physical and mental well-being, the global director of Wayra signals a phenomenon that “every person uses the technology to control their health”. This demonstration was carried out on the subject of searching for nurses during the investigation into the patient’s well.
“It is necessary to assign more resources from the final of the value chain of the sanitary attention (treatment and post-treatment) to the principle”, affirms Saborido, as long as it is necessary to have a message from the mayor in the style of living health and prevention ”.
En este ambito, destacan Disruptive Therapeutic Solutions oriented to mental health as well as physical. “Companies like Koa Foundations, Thrive Therapeutic Software, Vittude, Pzizz, Quit Genius help self-manage stress, stress and addictions”.
También results in this interview with the technology of companies such as Second Nature, Baobab Circle, Albert Health or Vinehealth Digital Limited, which focuses on physical health dealing with weight problems, diabetes and hypertension including helping to treat patients with cancer.
Moreover, within the ambit of physical and mental well-being, Saborido observes “a great crime-oriented solution to the greetings from the woman (Baby2body, she’s fine, Chorus Health) y al fitness (Fitco, Gympass, Volava) ”.
On the other hand, another subsector that is registering “a large crime” in the last years is the mayor of mayors with monitoring solutions (Aerial, MySphera, Sensara); slimband (Neki and Durcal); volunteer (Adopta un abuelo); Virtual walkers (TuCuVi), education to increase salient longevity (Rosita).
Ultimately, and more oriented to the B2B market (by the signs of business to business), the person in charge of Wayra indicated that he had many solutions that could improve the hospital management as Visionable, Hospify, MySphera, Proradis or OssoVR.
For example, in Spain, MySphera and Telefonica work together in the Futuro Digital Hospital, in what is “implementing a new system identification, location and traceability of patients“, Which will allow” shorten the time of emergency in emergencies and increase the efficiency of the use of hospital activities “.
Another recent example is from the UK Visionable and its project Slim ambulance, centered on assisting patients with cerebral palsy. Treat yourself to a connected ambulance which allows the emergency medical technicians to assist patients quickly to connect with experts in the hospital.
“All thanks to the collaboration with O2 and red 5G, which allows the transfer of images and video conferencing of high definition and high speed”.
Agreements with large companies in the sector
“With the passing of the years, we have also been strongly encouraged in this sector to create vertical programs in the United Kingdom, associated with Novartis or GE Healthcare”.
There are collaboration projects in the way that Wayra wants to potentiate its “deep technological knowledge with the major knowledge of the sector that possesses lead companies” as these companies.
From these agreements, Saborido explains, the startups of their ecosystem can access “dates and experience in medical attention, which are more difficult to obtain but in other industries are subject to the regulations ”and, moreover, they are proportionally a viola to more rapid markets.
For example, it is stated that one of the differentiating elements of the program with GE Healthcare, launched in the finals of 2020, is “the strong connection with industry, with customers and real problems ”.
During the six months of acceleration, “the work program on three days: innovation, adoption and the integration of technology startups have tried and tested concepts that, if they are exits, will facilitate the access of the emperors to the global red of GE with distribution companies in 160 countries ”.