e-Health

Improvement of long-term primary cancer prevention.  The iBeChange project addresses psychosocial and lifestyle risk factors to promote primary cancer prevention. This initiative designs, develops and tests an integrated platform that encourages behaviour change in individuals to achieve healthy and sustainable behaviours and emotions. The innovative iBeChange system goes beyond the state of the art in sustainable behaviour change and emotional management by combining evidence-based knowledge from clinical psychology and behaviour change theories with the capabilities of adaptive digital technologies and AI. Thus, the iBeChange system observes dynamically, learns about user behaviours, and delivers tailored and effective [...]

Innovative collaborative initiative among three leading Spanish technological centres in the field of quantum computing. The ARQA project advances research and development of quantum applications for the business sector, thereby tackling challenges that traditional computing cannot currently resolve. The Cervera ARQA Network, formed by the Technological Center for Information and Communication Foundation (CTIC), Eurecat, and ITG, constitutes a joint effort to boost the transfer of quantum technologies to businesses, fostering a national level collaboration that facilitates the integration of these advanced technologies into the business fabric, and thereby, into society. This project not only seeks to [...]

Development of an innovative personalized audiovisual medical informed consent technology, validated with artificial intelligence and protected with blockchain (smart contracts). The solution of the AICIBLOCK project covers the legal aspect of patient information, improves the security and traceability of the consent process, reduces clinical management problems and malpractice expenses, as well as decreases the time of physical contact between staff healthcare and patients in primary care. AICIBLOCK addresses the critical issue in the medical field of effective understanding of informed consents. These documents, crucial to protecting patient rights, are often lengthy and difficult to comprehend. The [...]

Development of a medical device for the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). The MOWOOT project develops the first medical device for the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome, a common disorder that causes abdominal pain and irregular bowel movements. The device uses mechanical stimulation of the abdomen to interact with gastrointestinal mechanosensory cells and circuits, which are involved in the regulation of intestinal motility and sensitivity. The device also includes sensor technology and a digital platform with artificial intelligence to monitor and optimize treatment results. MOWOOT is based on the latest research on the role of [...]

Privacy-compliant health data as a service for artificial intelligence (AI) development. The PHASE IV AI project advances the current state of data synthesis methods towards a more generalized approach to synthetic health data generation. The initiative develops metrics for testing and validation, as well as protocols that allow the generation of synthetic data without access to real-world data through multi-party computation. The objectives of PHASE IV AI are: Provide improved methods and technical pipelines for the synthesis of privacy-preserving data, including different data formats such as electronic health records (EHRs) and medical images. Provide easy-to-use and [...]

Artificial intelligence to optimise stroke treatment. The TRUSTroke project proposes a novel platform based on artificial intelligence, trustworthy by design and privacy-preserving, to assist clinicians, patients and caregivers in the management of acute and chronic phases of ischemic stroke. The project is based on the integration of clinical and patient-reported data, outcomes and experiences for a trustworthy assessment of disease progression and risks, enabling more personalised and effective stroke management, as well as providing inter-hospital benchmarking and sharing of best practices. TRUSTroke addresses risks of clinical severity at discharge; clinical worsening leading to unplanned hospital readmissions; [...]

Elevation of the educational process of health professionals, combining social, technical and digital skills modules. The e-Hospital4Future project creates, disseminates and implements training modules aimed at healthcare professionals in a hospital environment. E-Hospital4Future goes beyond the status quo of the capabilities of health professionals, innovating the contents and methodologies of the training programs for the target audience. The ultimate goal of the project is to promote the implementation of this type of training programs across Europe, including not only hospitals and other healthcare institutions, but also schools and universities. Eurecat participates in this project through its [...]

Collaboration in the development of the ABLE exoskeleton: light, easy to use and affordable, aimed at patients with spinal cord injuries. The ABLE Human Motion project helps people with paraplegia due to a spinal cord injury to stand up and walk independently again thanks to a wearable exoskeleton. ABLE uses a patented electrical actuator to flex and extend the knee during walking, mimicking natural human movement. The technology also includes inertial sensors that detect the user's intention to take a step forward. Spinal cord injury is a catastrophic event that pushes five million people worldwide into a life [...]

European championship of innovation in the field of health. The i-Days promote innovation in health among university students through dozens of programs of one or two days that take place in European academic institutions. Students from all academic backgrounds receive an introduction to practical health innovation tools and compete in teams to tackle real health challenges posed by EIT Health, local organisations, private companies or start-ups. The winning team of each i-Day attends the Winners' Event, a final competition that unites students from all over Europe. Specifically, the i-Days Vic begin with the aim of finding [...]

Boost of the first product for home use intended for therapeutic purposes and for the cognitive stimulation of people with physical, sensory or cognitive disabilities, using multisensory stimulation technologies and based on care-giving, accessible and therapeutic leisure. MOMENTS develops a suite of customisable Internet of Things (IoT) sensory devices to deliver sensory stimulation in full sync with a digital content platform. This platform allows families and therapists to create more valuable and personalised experiences for each user, both for therapy and for leisure. In this sense, the project develops a web application and a backend for therapeutic professionals, [...]

Expert system for intelligent recommendation of audiovisual content for patients and professionals. The SERICAPP project develops an audiovisual content recommendation system capable of anticipating users' demands and adapting to the needs that may arise during their health and disease life course. This system takes into account the environmental data of the users, which will be changing depending on the environments where they reside, as well as the evolving data of their medical records, both genotypic and phenotypic. The development of this software as a service (SaaS) enriches existing ontologies automatically, ensuring operational human control and using deep learning [...]

A digital system capable of analysing frail patient health data and developing an underlying health index using machine learning. The AGED project develops a solution based on software as a service (SAAS) that provides a single multivariate reading interpretation of the evolution of the mobility of a frail patient. This solution, called Ephion Vitality, integrates multiple sensors and variables thanks to machine learning systems to determine the efficacy of new treatments and the results of ongoing clinical trials in the field of frailty and associated health conditions and comorbidities. The new platform is intended to assess the functional [...]

Development of a digital therapeutic intervention to treat acute stress. The THERASONAR project promotes a solution to combat acute stress made up of a back-office platform for professionals and a mobile application for final patients, preventing them from becoming chronic. To do this, THERASONAR develops a voice analysis technology using algorithms capable of recognising emotions to offer specific and personalised stress treatment programs through advanced audio formats to distribute them through an application. In addition, within the framework of the project, technologies for digital phenotyping, state-of-the-art sound therapy and clinical decision support for therapeutic personalisation are developed. The [...]

Development of a socially intelligent assistance robot to help the elderly relieve loneliness at home. The Never Home Alone (NHoA) project aims to help seniors by relieving loneliness at home, maintaining healthy habits and encouraging them to interact with the community. The system will also protect, assist and monitor the evolution of each person in a personalised way. The overall goal of NHoA is to co-design a socially intelligent care robot as a key to patient robustness, adaptability, acceptance and commitment. The NHoA robot will be an embodied support actor who feels the social and emotional [...]

Network of excellence in data-based enabling technologies. The AI4ES project is born with the vision of becoming the Spanish benchmark in research, development and transfer of those digital technologies that allow intelligent data processing and analysis. The objective of AI4ES is to promote the economy based on data and artificial intelligence at a national level, facilitating the transfer of capacities, results and technologies to the productive fabric, providing innovative solutions and services that require secure and reliable access to data, efficient processing, analysis advanced, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. These technologies range from the storage and [...]