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AQuAS leads the deployment of an AI solution for diabetic retinopathy screening in primary care

The Agència de Qualitat i Avaluació Sanitàries de Catalunya (AQuAS) has begun the deployment ...

The new edition of the GenAI Health Hack in Barcelona has been confirmed

Hospital Clínic Barcelona, the Health/AI Programme of the Department of Health and the UB ...

Training opportunity for healthcare professionals: enrol in the new course on artificial intelligence in health and medicines

La Unió Consorci Formació has opened registration for the virtual course ‘Basic concepts of ...

Catalonia showcases its strategy for healthcare AI at an international NHS event

As the United Kingdom prepares to launch its NHS AI strategic roadmap later this autumn, the AI ...

New alliance to promote research, training and innovation in artificial intelligence applied to radiology

The TIC Salut Social Foundation and the Catalan Society of Radiology “Radiologists of Catalonia” ...

Catalonia shares its AI in Health model in a global session organised by the OECD and PATH

The Salut/IA Programme took part this week in the second session of the international ...

Call for tenders published for AI-based solutions to support the screening and prioritization of patients with skin lesions

The Agency for Health Quality and Assessment of Catalonia (AQuAS) has published a call ...

The TIC Salut Social Foudation as a facilitator of digital transformation in Catalonia

The TIC Salut Social Foundation is a public body of the Catalonia Government (Generalitat ...

Catalonia presents its AI model in health at the Spain-Luxembourg Economic Forum

On May 6, within the framework of the Economic Forum Spain – Luxembourg held ...

Ready to go a tender for AI-based solutions to provide medication information to patients, caregivers and citizens

Within the framework of the Health/AI Program of the Department of Health, on June ...

AQuAS launches two preliminary market consultations to identify AI-based solutions that improve public health

Within the framework of the Health/AI Program, AQuAS has opened two preliminary market consultations ...

The Government of Catalonia reaffirms in Brussels its commitment to the efforts to achieve European technological sovereignty and ethical AI

Maria Galindo, the Secretary of Digital Policies of the Department of Business and Labour, ...

Four new guides published for the development and regulation of AI in Health

The Health/AI Program has published four new guides to facilitate the development, qualification and ...

The Health/AI Programme begins the 'Artificial Intelligence in Health' training

The Health/AI Programme launched the online course ‘Artificial Intelligence in Health’, developed jointly with ...

The Guide for evaluating digital health technologies that incorporate artificial intelligence has been published

Barcelona to host an artificial intelligence factory

Local representatives from Sweden promote the Health/AI Program

AI-guided clinical case simulator becomes the winning project of the first edition of GenAI Health Hack 

More than 100 participants in 13 teams took part in the first edition of ...

The Health/AI Programme announces a new challenge to develop AI solutions to support the interpretation of chest x-rays in primary care 

As part of the Health/IA Programme, the Health Quality and Assessment Agency of Catalonia ...

Barcelona will host the first edition of the GenAI Health Hack: a pioneering event on generative AI in health to solve practical challenges of the Catalan Health System 

Hospital Clínic Barcelona, the Health/AI Programme of the Department of Health and the Chair ...

The first edition of the GenAI Health Hack comes to Barcelona

The Hospital Clínic Barcelona, the Salut/IA Programme of the Catalan Department of Health and ...

Tender published to find artificial intelligence solutions for the prevention of retinopathy

The Health/AI Programme takes a step forward in the search for artificial intelligence (AI) ...

How will the European Regulation on artificial intelligence affect the health sector?

With the entry into force of the European regulation on artificial intelligence, also known as ...

SISCAT and research center managers delve into the field of artificial intelligence in health

About sixty managers and senior representatives from the centers of the Catalan public healthcare ...

The results of the preliminary market consultation for the medicine information challenge have been published

The Health Quality and Assessment Agency of Catalonia (AQuAS) has published the Final report ...

The Department of Health begins the market consultation process for the development of AI-based solutions to provide information on medicines to the public

Within the framework of the Health/AI programme, the conditions of the market consultation concerning ...

The Health/AI Programme starts work on the promotion and development of artificial intelligence in the health system

The Minister of Health, Manel Balcells i Díaz, today chaired the first formation and ...

Around 150 professionals attend the La Unió seminar on artificial intelligence in health

On 7 June, La Unió, in collaboration with the Health/AI Programme, held the seminar ...

More than 190 health professionals in Catalonia complete the Smart Health Awareness course on artificial intelligence and big data

Students, representatives of the Catalan health system, the Health/AI Programme, Merck, IBM and the ...

A civil association for artificial intelligence at the service of people and society has been created 

CIVIC, a new civil association to raise awareness in society about the social and ...

The Health AI Observatory publishes the Study of the Maturity of Health Artificial Intelligence in Research Centres in Catalonia

The Health AI Observatory, coordinated by the TIC Salut Social Foundation, has identified 50 artificial intelligence ...

Resolution creating of the Programme for the Promotion and Development of Artificial Intelligence in the Health System

The Official Gazette of the Government of Catalonia has published Resolution SLT/954/2023 of 19 March, creating ...

The European Commission presents the European Cancer Imaging Initiative

The European Commission has launched the European Cancer Imaging Initiative within the framework of Europe’s Beating ...

CatSalut’s ‘Smart Health Awareness’ course begins by training health care professionals and managers in the use of AI

CatSalut’s ‘Smart Health Awareness’ course is kicking off. It provides training for Catalan health ...

New report on Explainability in Artificial Intelligence

The Artificial Intelligence team at the TIC Salut Social Foundation has published its Report ...

The Guide of good practices for the development of code in Artificial Intelligence solutions in Healthcare has been published

The Artificial Intelligence Area of the TIC Salut Social Foundation has published the ‘Guide ...

The terms and conditions for the open market consultation on AI Solutions for Diabetic Retinopathy in Primary Care have been published

The Catalan Agency for Health Quality and Assessment (AQuAS) has published the terms and conditions ...

Watch the presentation of the open market consultation on the diabetic retinopathy challenge live

On 9 January 2023, the details of the conditions for the market consultation to ...

The Health AI Observatory identifies nearly a hundred Artificial Intelligence algorithms in SISCAT (Catalonia's comprehensive health system for public use) and research centres in Catalonia

The TIC Salut Social Foundation has launched the Observatory of Artificial Intelligence in Health ...

Around seventy SISCAT professionals take part in the conference ‘Artificial Intelligence as a transformative tool’

On 22 November, nearly 70 professionals from Catalonia’s comprehensive health system for public use ...

Alert to detect Artificial Intelligence-based solutions for Diabetic Retinopathy

The Health Quality and Evaluation Agency of Catalonia has issued an alert to provide ...

INCISIVE launches its first interoperable cancer data repository prototype

The INCISIVE project has reached its first major milestone after 18 months of work ...

Presentation of the Smart Health training programme, focusing on Big Data and Artificial Intelligence

On April 21, the Smart Health training programme, promoted by Merck, in collaboration with ...

Debate on Artificial Intelligence at InforSalud 2022, the Spanish National Congress on Information Technology in Healthcare

Artificial Intelligence was one of the main topics under discussion at the 25th National Congress ...

The HEALTH/ AI Programme present at MWC 2022

The city of Barcelona will host the Mobile World Congress between 28 February and ...

New artificial intelligence network to accelerate clinical and health research

A consortium made up of 16 national and international entities has launched the TARTAGLIA ...

Machine learning system identifies new biomarkers to predict strokes

Atrial fibrillation is the most common cardiac arrhythmia and can be associated with various ...

Artificial Intelligence to predict the best treatment in patients with lung cancer

Small cell lung cancer represents 15% of cancer cases in this organ and has ...

Increasing the effectiveness in the diagnosis of dysphagia with Artificial Intelligence

Oropharyngeal dysphagia (OD), or difficulty swallowing, is commonly seen in older adults. The disease ...

Financing of €135 million for scientific innovation projects in Artificial Intelligence and health

Last November, the Spanish government presented the Strategic Project for Economic Recovery and Transformation ...

Scanning for the early detection of melanomas

Skin cancer is the most common human malignancy, and its incidence rate has increased ...

Artificial Intelligence as support for diseases that affect muscle tissues

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a congenital myopathy; that is, a disorder or disease ...

Health quality data: an essential requirement for AI

The cycle of sessions of the XI Conference R + D + I TIC ...

AI and ethics in health: a complicated binomial to manage

The 11th R + D + I Tic Social Health Conference was inaugurated with ...

Quality data in health: an essential requirement for Artificial Intelligence

The cycle of sessions of the XI R&D&I ICT Social Health Conference 2021, provided ...

Presentation of the report on artificial intelligence and ethics

The report was prepared within the framework of the Catalonia AI strategy of the ...

Artificial intelligence to examine biopsy tissue samples

In extreme life or death situations, a quick and accurate diagnosis is essential to ...

AI & BIG DATA CONGRESS

The 7th edition of the leading congress on Artificial Intelligence and Big Data, organized ...

The WHO releases the world's first report on Artificial Intelligence in Health

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to strengthen healthcare but ethical considerations and human ...