Written by  TIC Salut Social    |   1 Sep 2021

Speech-based support system to monitor patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) suffer from voice changes differentlythan the healthy population. However, two questions remain to be studied: how long-term speech elements such as prosody are affected; and whether physical effort and medication also affect the speech of patients with COPD and, if so, how an automatic speech-based COPD detection system […]

Written by  TIC Salut Social    |   8 Sep 2021

Abbott Lab’s FreeStyle Librelink gets the TIC Salut Social’s quality label for healthcare apps

On the 15th July, the ‘FreeStyle Librelink App’ for Diabetes monitoring overcame the certification process of the TIC Salut Social Foundation. This app got a certification as a healthcare product. It has been evaluated to be used with the glucose monitoring sensors in interstitial liquid and FreeStyle Libre 2. It enables calculating the user’s levels […]

Written by  Lourdes Rodríguez    |   16 Sep 2021

Map of Trends’ 2021 survey on Social ICTs is back on track

The Direcció General de Serveis Socials [Social Services General Directorate] and the TIC Salut Social Foundation have already launched the fourth edition of the MAp of Trends annual survey for social care services. In order to provide continuity to the research, we created a new questionnaire with the aim of expanding information on digitizalization levels, […]

Written by  Roberta Giuliani    |   22 Sep 2021

Impact of mHealth interventions and video-consultations on type 1 diabetes management and its clinical outcomes: a Master Thesis Project

Fundació TIC Salut Social is collaborating with a student from Bologna, who has done a thesis on diabetes with Hospital del Mar in Barcelona Management of Type 1 diabetes (T1DM) poses enormous challenges for healthcare systems and individuals across Europe. This chronic disease is usually diagnosed in childhood-youth, and thus it presents a long-term evolution. […]

Written by  TIC Salut Social    |   22 Sep 2021

Partnership agreement between TIC Salut Social foundation and COMB [Official College of Doctors of Barcelona]

TIC Salut Social foundation and the Official College of Doctors of Barcelona (COMB) signed a partnership agreement. The goal is identifying, defining, coordinating and implementing projects and joint actions in order to promote innovation initiatives by means of ICT’s in healthcare as a strategy to improve healthcare services quality. The agreement will ensure the previous […]