Hospital de Sant Pau, the engineering company QEV Technologies, the automobile company Nissan and the technology centre Eurecat have developed the Q-Vent respirator to be used in hospital ICUs to alleviate the lack of equipment generated by the Covid-19 throughout the world. Its design is intended to contribute to supplying emerging countries given its performance [...]
Telemedicine “will suddenly take a five-year leap forward in the wake of the coronavirus crisis and this will bring its real benefits up to the level of the potential it offers”, argues Felip Miralles, Director of the Eurecat technology centre’s eHealth Unit. He points to clinical process modelling, promoting prevention, monitoring and decision support as [...]
The Eurecat technology centre, Barcelona Provincial Council and start-up Treematernity are to donate hundreds of single-use pregnancy monitoring belts which they have jointly developed to avoid the reuse of traditional belts and the bacterial load that this entails. The aim is to help prevent potential coronavirus infections in hospital mother and baby units. The belts [...]
The Eurecat technology centre is using its multi-technology capabilities to address COVID-19. They include developing devices, software and hardware for data processing, expertise in artificial intelligence applied to bioinformatics, infrastructures for biotechnology trials and analysis, setting up platforms and knowledge transfer. Over recent weeks the technology centre has been delivering its knowhow in the integrated [...]
