Digital Area

Digital Health

ICT research and innovation to assist patients, professionals and healthcare providers

The Digital Health Unit specialises in ICT research and innovation to assist patients, professionals and healthcare providers through integrated care, data analytics and biomechanics, thus building and deploying innovative products and services for a personalised, preventive, predictive and participative healthcare.

Integrated care

  • Health self-management tools.
  • Assistive technologies.
  • Telehealth (telemedicine, telemonitoring, telerehabilitation).
  • Medical devices.

Data Analytics in Medicine

  • Data management in clinical research.
  • Statistics, knowledge management and machine learning in medicine.
  • Predictive and prescriptive models in health care and medicine.
  • Clinical decision support systems.

Biomechanics

  • Gait and movement analysis.
  • Musculoskeletal modelling.
  • Medical, occupational safety and sport protocols and applications.

Innovation in healthcare

  • Development of personalised healthcare software and hardware.
  • Interoperability and security in healthcare systems.

Services

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Technology diagnostics

  • eHealth, mHealth, conceptualisation of integrated care and definition of technological roadmap.
  • Exploratory analysis and creation of health data set profiles (clinical, omics, environmental), analysis of data’s potential value.
  • Biomechanical analysis of rehabilitation, ergonomics in the workplace and sport products, services and applications.
  • Requirement analysis and assessment of the interoperability and safety of systems, data and healthcare devices.
  • Commercial advice for digital health projects.
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Innovation projects

  • eHealth, mHealth and integrated care solutions, which include hardware and software.
  • Medical devices from concept to certification.
  • Healthcare data (clinical, chemical, environmental) analysis, which may include big data infrastructures and clinical decision support systems.
  • Biomechanical solutions for rehabilitation, ergonomics and sport.
  • Interoperability and security solutions for healthcare systems, data and devices.
  • Living Lab for co-creation of digital healthcare products and services.
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Training

  • Integrated care solutions and mHealth.
  • Data analysis in medicine and clinical decision support systems.
  • Biomechanical analysis and rehabilitation, ergonomics and sports solutions.
  • Interoperability and security in healthcare systems.

Representative sectors

Health

ICT

Public sector

Contact

David Marí

Director of the Digital Health Unit at Eurecat

David Marí has a Master of Science (MSc) in Electronics, a MSc in Telecommunications from the Universitat Ramon Llull (URL) and a Master in Business Administration (MBA) from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF).

He has more than 20 years of experience in ICT project management and R&D management in multidisciplinary teams, working both in industry and academia, and participating in EU Framework Programme projects since 2011. He has always been professionally linked to the technology sector, working in different sectors such as communication, public administration, energy and health.

He is currently the Director of the Digital Health Unit at EURECAT.

Outstanding projects

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CONNECARE

Integrated system to provide a better quality of life to patients with chronic pathologies.

AICCELERATE

AI-based solutions with the objective to optimise hospital processes and to improve the quality of patient care.

Alternative

ALTERNATIVE

Innovative platform based on aged cardiac tissue model in order to evaluate the environmental toxicology of chemical mixtures.

EMAPS

EMAPS-Cardio

Development of devices for growth and maturation of cardiac microtissues for adult-like organotypic models.

Multimedia

Ephion Health

Eurecat, Sant Joan de Déu Hospital and The Collider set up Ephion Health, a pioneer in using artificial intelligence to monitor the progress of patients with diseases which impinge on their mobility.

iCardio

How to innovate in service of the company to create iCardio, the world’s smallest electrocardiograph.

Backhome

Assistance technologies related to the Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI) to improve physical and social autonomy, as well as the quality of life of people suffering disabilities.

CONNECARE

Integrated and personalized management system based on participative, predictive and preventive medicine to provide a better quality of life to chronic disease patients.

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