translated from Spanish: The 30 Chilean innovation projects that seek to reach public hospitals

A group of 30 local-Chilean developer teams And foreigners – was selected by the National Center on Health Information Systems (CENS) to be part of an entrepreneurship tournament that seeks to transfer innovative ideas to solutions that impact Chilean health.
The process is supported by CORFO, the ITMS telemedicine company and the five universities that integrate CENS (Catholic, Chile, Valparaiso, Talca and Concepción). The initiatives address different problems of the health field, betting on the use of technologies such as robotics, the Internet of things and artificial intelligence.
The Director of the tournament and project manager of CENS, Alejandra Garcia, said that “the impact of these projects could be high, considering the collaboration with different ecosystem organizations like CORFO, which are the ones who deliver the resources for these Ideas make a leap in your scaling; And, on the other hand with their pilot centers open to receive innovations to improve health. ”
“One of the main gaps identified by CORFO is that innovative solutions could not be tested in controlled environments, and that is what comes to solve the centers of pilings. The goal of the tournament is to identify those entrepreneurs with innovative ideas to create products and services that solve health problems using clinical informatics, as the examples here highlighted, “Garcia said.

The entrepreneurship tournament seeks to contribute to the new model of digital attention (MAD) promoted by the Government, focusing on the patient and on which processes of modernization of hospital management are built and the introduction of new technologies for the benefit of User.
“Expectations go to prevent these entrepreneurs from suffering with the same obstacles as those that have come before, and can learn to quickly recognize what are the technical elements that today have to incorporate to grow and eventually lead to International market its services and products, “said Camilo Erazo, general manager of CENS.
“We hope that innovators can adopt a global vision, that they can understand that through knowledge of the most widely used interoperability standards in the world, they increase their chances that their idea will touch the lives of patients in many Countries. And that’s also the best way to protect and scale up your ideas, “he added.

Innovative projects
Some of the areas in which innovative ideas are sought are adherence to treatment of chronic patients; Personalized treatments; or disease prevention education. The six-month training process will allow local, Chilean and foreign developers to deepen their knowledge of business models, interoperability processes, information exchange standards and new care protocols in Bless you.
In Concepción, medical technologist Carolina Peneda developed a pediatric medical monitoring device. Called Skinnet, the technology is used as a patch to be used in outpatient care cases for children suffering from common illnesses such as bronchitis.
The system connects to an application and sends vital sign reports, including temperature and heart rate, 24 hours a day. Also, generating alerts and notifications in case of complications. “We dream of reaching everyone and that people can make better clinical decisions with this information,” says the entrepreneur.
In Coquimbo, the teacher of physical education Cristian Cornejo and the developer Ricardo Ormeño joined to fight the obesity in the schools through the technology. In this way, they created their own software that converts a digital weight into an online system that builds nutritional maps of groups of minors. Its goal is to provide better quality information to make preventive decisions, both in schools and in health centers.
“We designed an intelligent measurement system for obesity, which collects data on weight and size, calculates the body mass index, and emits printed and SMS reports. Our challenge is to make a dumbbell only for schools using the program we create. The most important thing about being in this information process is learning from the standard of data interoperability. ”
New generation of entrepreneurs
From Coquimbo to Concepción, entrepreneurs began a six-month training process in April. The teams will be supported by a network of mentors arranged by CENS, and which includes academics from the nodes of its five member universities, private sector actors and Beauchef accelerates, the agency created by the University of Chile and CORFO to support the Innovation and entrepreneurship.
“We have brought together the best ideas with two main features: they are computer solutions, first, and in the pursuit of patient well-being, second,” added Sergio Guiñez, director of the human Capital area of CENS. “We will accompany you on this trip and try to give you tools to be able to develop in the business world and the international level standards in interoperability of health systems.”
Thus, at the end of 2019, the projects with the highest level of progress could be tested in the pilot Centers (CePis) arranged by the Ministry of Health in three public hospitals of high complexity: San Pablo de Coquimbo, the Sótero of the river bridge Alto and The Guillermo Grant Benavente de Concepción. They will also be supported by CENS to present their idea in the international market.
Once the process has been completed, whose objective is to contribute to the formation of advanced human capital for the country and the formation of an innovation ecosystem at the regional level, the best projects will receive economic support for development-related activities. of solutions.
Innovation, the future of health
Felipe Ñañncupil, director of the Business Accelerator Beauchef accelerates, explained that “most of these projects have a prototype, so, what we are going to be supported is the validation of that prototype, so that it can become a pilot and finally a Business. In the background, validating that what they say is a problem is actually a problem, and that there is a segment of customers willing to pay for their solution. ”
In a total of 120 academic hours, with classroom classes and online content, training meets the criteria of a model of competencies in health information systems, the first of its kind at the Latin American level, created by CENS scholars and It aims to reduce the gap of at least 3,500 professionals to leverage digital transformation of the sector in the country.
Carlos Núñez, consultant of interoperability of the Digital Transformation Committee of CORFO, valued that the purpose of the public sector is to leverage the ideas and that these can reach impact to the market with the support of having been evaluated in a real context. “We are focused on the ideas that come out of here, as well as being validated in the pilot centers, have technical seals and certifications that allow them to even go abroad,” he said.
Francisco Fernandez, president of IA and innovation of ITMS, stressed that the new generation of innovators gives a context where the health market is changing due to the use of information technologies, the Internet of things and access to devices High-end mobile phones. In his view, technology can make the relationship between the care that patients need and the availability of hours in hospitals more efficient.
“Health costs are growing in a tremendously large spiral, and if we don’t stop that, the economy will not be able to sustain good coverage. The answer to that is in innovation. Today health is no longer done in the hospital, is done in a collaborative environment and centradodenle the patient. We don’t have to spend the money on transporting people, but on respond. All of this connected in an interoperability ecosystem, which is fundamental for all of this to work, “he said.

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