The eHealth Challenges: Identification and Analysis Symposium was held on 28 June 2019 in Barcelona. It presented the challenges facing the participants in the ATHIKA (Advanced Training in Health Innovation Knowledge Alliance – No. 601106-EPP-1-2018-1-ES-EPPKA-KA) during the 2019-2020 academic year.
The project, which is funded by the European Union’s Erasmus+ program, seeks to provide a humanistic approach to the design of new technologies in the field of healthcare; to analyse their effects; and to take a multidisciplinary, effective approach to their design and implementation, in order to go beyond a purely technological approach, by taking into account the ethical and social dimensions.
The challenges
ATHIKA divides the challenges into three major areas: The IoT (Internet of Things), AI (Artificial Intelligence) and Data Governance.
The first challenge, which affects all three areas, is the ability to manipulate the huge volume of data produced by the IoT, the ability to process it using AI and the ethical and legal criteria underpinning Data Governance, in order to ensure that technological improvements are ethically regulated and that regulation changes to adapt to the results which are seen to be beneficial.
Another of the major challenges is the management of data which allows the public to participate and take responsibility for their health thanks to the use of technology.
Finally, the other great challenge is the creation of hybrid approaches capable of functioning in both the medical/health sector and in terms of the technological aspects. These broad areas relate to more specific situations such as reticence on the part of doctors and patients to accept results obtained by AI, which they see as opaque, the specific uses the public wish their data to be used for and how this can be regulated, and to what extent it is the responsibility of the computer engineers who develop the technology to take into account the ethics of their potential uses.
La Salle-URL is the project coordinator. The students will face these challenges, put to them by companies and institutions, in an online course featuring interdisciplinary work (involving students of such disciplines as Digital Transformation, eHealth, Big Data and Smart Cities).
The Fundació TIC Salut Social, which organizes the event, has identified the needs and challenges facing the sector and will bring to bear its experience in eHealth and mHealth during the ATHIKA project.
Five companies will also be taking part: Technopolis Group (consultancy), Mcrit (consultancy), Pharmatics Limited (R & D), Technosens Evolution (Software Development) and Kaunas STP (Technology Park); and two higher education institutions: The University of Tartu and The University of the West of Scotland.
Once the consortium who leads the project has completed the process of selecting the challenges to be presented at the symposium, online courses will be launched to train students from different disciplines (such as health, technology, entrepreneurship) who will work together to tackle the problems in face-to-face workshops which will take place in July 2020.
Video of the event: https://youtu.be/ebWoYjIMLJ4
La Salle Campus Barcelona:
La Salle Campus Barcelona, a founding member of the Universitat Ramon Llull, is a university centre which offers BSc, Postgraduate and MA, PhD and specialized programs in Architecture, Engineering, Computer Science, Multimedia, Management and Digital Art, animation & VFX. Technology is a fundamental part of all of its work.
La Salle Campus Barcelona is committed to entrepreneurship, the ongoing interaction between students and business and applied research. In addition, true to its mission of training professionals with values capable of transforming society, it encourages students to develop their social, humanistic side.
La Salle has created a unique forum for innovation: the Internet of Things Institute of Catalonia, the first European laboratory for innovation and research into the internet of the future, which builds upon La Salle Campus Barcelona’s innovation, transfer and research ecosystem.
La Salle is the largest non-profit global network dedicated specifically to education. It has existed for over 300 years and is active in 80 countries, consisting of 1,083 educational centres and 65 universities, with 1,000,000 students, 300,000 of which are university students.
Fundació TIC Salut Social
The Fundació TIC Salut Social is part of the Ministry of Health. It was founded in 2006 to promote the development and use of ICT and networking in the field of healthcare, serve as an observatory of new trends and emerging initiatives, and to encourage standardization and product approval.
The implementation of ICT in healthcare is already an unstoppable process and is seen as one of the most transformative elements in the future of healthcare. The fact that Catalonia has publicly funded universal healthcare, involving a wide variety of partners, provider organizations and subsidiary industries, means that the health industry is in an excellent position to generate innovation and economic dynamism in the sector of new technology.
The Fundació TIC Salut Social’s mission is to act as facilitators in the transformation of the health and social care model through ICT.
Contact: La Salle Campus Barcelona-URL Carlo E. Gallucci Vallcorba Tel. 93 290 2278 Mobile 679214163 |
Contact: Adrià Garcia Font Communications Manager Fundació TIC Salut Social T. 93 553 26 42 agarciafont@ticsalutsocial.cat
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