Digital health has seen “an exponential increase over the last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic and this has opened the door to highly innovative projects which are setting the trend in health technologies for the coming years”, says Felip Miralles, director of Digital Health at the Eurecat technology centre. He points out that “regenerative medicine and the introduction of technologies such as robotics and AI in hospitals and care processes” are expected to play “a key role”.
Digital health is an “exceptionally multidisciplinary scientific and technological area”, he adds. “It is transforming healthcare systems as we know them to make them sustainable and more universal and to bring in personalised and precision medicine, which delivers better quality of life and an active and preventive role for everyone”.
In this field Eurecat is driving two European consortiums, EMAPS-Cardio and AICCELERATE. The former addresses creating new artificial cardiac tissues for better understanding and treatment of heart diseases. Meanwhile, the latter explores configuring some of the technologies which will shape new processes and services in the smart hospitals of the future such as AI and robotics.
