Conference of the Telefónica Chair on SmartHealth
Held at the ESI on November 16 addressing projects that combine computing and health
The Higher School of Computer Science of the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM) at the Ciudad Real Campus held on Friday, November 16, the working day 'Big data, Cloud & Fog Computing, loT and Digital Education for Preventing Healthcare (Smart Healthcare)', within activities programmed by the Telefónica-UCLM chair.
The conference was opened by the secretary general of the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM), Crescencio Bravo; the Manager of Large Clients and Public Administrations of Central Territory of Telefónica, Víctor Manuel Valdés; the director of the Higher School of Informatics (ESI), Eduardo Fernández-Medina, and the director of the Telefónica-UCLM Chair, Miguel Ángel Redondo.
The day has had the participation of speakers from research and interdisciplinary projects of the UCLM that combine computing, education and health. First, José Bravo, director of the MAmI research group, has offered a current panorama of health with the main motivation of expenditure per inhabitant, as well as the management and pressure suffered by health authorities. The m-Health paradigm is proposed beyond the simple APPs that, in large number, are generally offered free of charge. In this vision "the aim is to take a step forward so that all medical specialists adopt the position of sharing data in the cloud so that, through Big Data Analytics, they can benefit from decision-making in diagnosis".
The second talk Iván González, postdoctoral researcher at UCLM, has exposed how the barrier that divides software development from hardware development is increasingly narrow and blurred: “We can find electronic engineers programming the firmware of their devices in C++ or even in Python; and computer engineers building their own hardware prototypes.” This talk entitled "The digital manufacturing revolution: from the test board to the wearable prototype to monitor gait variability" encouraged those present, most of them experts in software development, to lose their fear and take their first steps in the world of digital manufacturing and the development of prototypes on printed circuit boards.
Jesus Fontecha, SECTI researcher at UCLM, spoke about the digital transformation in the field of health, through the definition of the AmIHealth paradigm and how it has influenced the development of m-Health ecosystems, and its importance in today's society, especially in terms of monitoring and follow-up. Some projects addressed by the MAmI group were mentioned, delving into a diabetes self-control and management project.
Finally, the ESI professor and researcher, Ramon Hervas, talked about how video games can promote health: "Our brain can be trained by studying what cognitive activities are exercised when we interact with a video game, for this we rely on neuroscience applied to computing." In this talk, other examples of video games applied to health were seen, such as a horror game to improve our self-control, how to learn about diabetes while we play, an example of fighting against bullying with virtual reality or even how a mammoth can help us manage our emotions.
To end the day, a round table was held where the participants addressed the challenges for preventive medicine to reach everyone. Among the conclusions is promoting new technologies as a tool to move towards better health care, always for the benefit of patients and health professionals, advocating new paradigms in the field, not only of legislation, but also of bioethics so that this new ecosystem does not end up generating insurmountable differences, but that they seek to reinforce the great ethical values, and promote that the opportunities that the application of the new technological paradigms in health entails reach the government models of health organizations.
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