20May 2020 by digitalhc

Telemedicine: Putting the Patient at the Center!

Hard to believe but this week I had my very 1st video consultation. I have been working in the digital health space for nearly 10 years, am very familiar with telemedicine solutions but never had a video consultation till now. And when your doctor is very much into digital, and lead the digital hospital, you don’t have much excuse... To my defense, I don’t go to the doctor very often, once a year for a checkup… and I very much like human contact so I enjoy having in person conversations (and I can test my doctor’s latest wearables). But i have to say, my 1st experience with video consultation, and the whole experience around it, exceeded my expectations. As many people confined at home, without possibility to go and see…

31Jan 2020 by digitalhc

Innovating in Digital Medicine – Used Case of Hospital Sanitas CIMA Barcelona

Conferences, Hospital

On January 28th 2020, we organised a special edition of our Health 2.0 Barcelona meetings in hospital Sanitas CIMA in Barcelona. The hospital has been very active developing and implementing solutions to digitise the hospital and the services offered to the customers and patients through their digital medicine department. [caption id="attachment_759" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Hospital CIMA Innovation Team [/caption] Antoni Giro, Jose Luis Gonzalez, Jorge Velazquez and Cesar Morcillo, presented some of the services and solutions they have been putting into place across and outside the hospital: The Blua video-consultation, which enables patients to visit their doctor from the confort of their home, across Spain and beyond 24/7 or even receive their prescription directly at home. Connected Health, a service to monitor patients with cardiac condition or hypertension for example 24/7. Patients…