SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Feb. 23 (EUROPE PRESS) –
The president of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, and the president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Ximo Puig, have signed this Wednesday a collaboration agreement for the management and provision of their own services in the field of health innovation through the project ‘Personalized Medicine Big Data’ (MedP Bigdata Project), which has an investment of almost 6 million euros and the participation of more than 7,000 people in its first phase.
The president of the Canary Islands explained that this project is a commitment to public health that is launched this week with the aim of using new technologies, in this case a mobile application, which will allow the download of programs that will make it possible to carry out up to five different actions that are aimed at having healthy habits and, above all, preventing diseases.
The president of the Generalitat Valenciana, for his part, thanked him for being able to sign this agreement and stressed that this project is based on learning the lessons of the pandemic, which “has illustrated the importance of the Autonomous Communities having a public system and which, despite the difficulties, is of great quality and excellence”.
Likewise, Ximo Puig stressed that this agreement comes to configure a new frontier, such as the application of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and Artificial Intelligence to the health event.
Led by the Canary Islands Health Service (SCS) and shared by the Ministry of Universal Health and Public Health of the Generalitat Valenciana, the MedP Bigdata Project has a budget of 5.8 million euros, of which the Government of the Canary Islands assumes 3.8 million (with FEDER co-financing of 85%) and the Generalitat Valenciana 2 million (with FEDER co-financing of 50%).
The objective of the project is welfare. It seeks to improve personalized care (diagnosis, treatment and research) for patients with chronic, oncological, degenerative and rare diseases, through the use of cutting-edge technological tools to offer a more advanced and efficient health service.
The first phase, called Cuídat-e, will start in the second half of March, although it begins this week with the recruitment of participants. It consists of the use of a simple computer application that will allow the exchange of information on healthy nutritional habits, physical activity, mood, substance use-new addictions and situations of unwanted loneliness.
The purpose is that, thanks to this exchange of information and through the application of Artificial Intelligence systems, progress is made in personalized medicine, more adapted to the needs and expectations of users. The first phase has the voluntary participation of 7,200 people living in each of the two Autonomous Communities of any age, and they must use the computer application of healthy living habits for five months.
After this first stage, there will be a second one lasting ten months. It will be focused on the most prevalent pathologies.
