Some of the projects carried out by Hospital POVISA have the support of public institutions and organizations. Among them it is worth highlighting the following:
Computerization system for hospital emergencies: This project obtained a subsidy of 28.941 euros by the Resolution of November 22, 2011 (DOG No. 237 of December 14, 2011) in accordance with the Resolution of April 7, 2011, of the General Secretariat of Modernization and Technological Innovation , which establishes the regulatory bases for the granting of subsidies to business cooperation projects for the promotion of digital business in the Autonomous Community of Galicia for the years 2011 and 2012, co-financed by the European Fund Regional Development (FEDER), within the framework of the Feder Galicia Operational Program 20072013-77 (DOG No. 19 of April 2011, 2.900.000). The budgetary credit allocated to this aid by the aforementioned department was XNUMX euros.
In 2010, among the initiatives undertaken by our company that obtained funding from public funds is the development of an assisted electronic prescription system for medication for patients. This project had the support of the General Secretariat of Modernization and Technological Innovation of the Xunta de Galicia, the Avanza Plan promoted by the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) of the European Commission.
The project obtained aid of 78.623 euros granted by resolution of September 9, 2010 (published in DOG No. 194, of Thursday, October 7, 2010), in accordance with the Resolution of April 15, 2010, of the General Secretariat of Modernization and Technological Innovation, which establishes the regulatory bases for the granting, on a competitive basis, of subsidies to business cooperation projects for the promotion of the digital company, within the scope of the Plan Avanza in the Community Autonomous Community of Galicia for the year 2010, co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), (DOG no. 80, of Thursday, April 29, 2010). The budgetary credit allocated to this aid by the aforementioned department amounted to 5.375.748 euros.
Outpatient patient circulation management platform: This project obtained a subsidy of 42.000 euros in accordance with the Order of December 31, 2008 on subsidies for investments by companies in the field of information and communications technologies, within the scope of the Autonomous Community of Galicia for the year 2009 (administrative procedure IN520A).
For more information about this projects, you can consult their corresponding explanatory reports that, under a Creative Commons license, are attached to this section of our website.
To obtain more information about this project, please consult its explanatory report which, under a Creative Commons license, see this section of our website.
The AGHAVES project “Food-Health Interrelation for Healthy Health through functional nutrition based on raw materials from Galician vegetables”, has as its main objective the obtaining of innovative and healthy products focused on meeting the needs of the greater population. In particular, vintage creams with high organoleptic and nutritional value will be developed from native raw materials supplemented with different functional ingredients, which will provide the micronutrients necessary to cover the deficiencies of this population sector. To develop the proposed strategy, a joint action is planned in all phases of the production chain that will involve a remodeling of the production process of hospital creams, ranging from the production of raw materials to the development of two products that will be validated through the performance of clinical studies. . For this purpose, a consortium led by Freshcut is established, with Ecocelta Galicia and the hospital group POVISA not participating. All of them have the collaboration of two research centers ANFACO-CECOPESCA, scientific-technical coordinator of the project, and INGACAL as well as the collaboration of the companies HORSAL and SIGMABIOTECH. Freshcut is a company belonging to the Frutas Nieves Group, which markets its products through the registered brand Galifresh and will have as its objective no project or design the production of high-end products from fresh vegetables from the Galician garden. Ecocelta Galicia, a company created to provide a sustainable solution to the environmental management of organic waste, focuses on the recovery of by-products destroyed during the manufacturing process of functional products. Finally, the POVISA Hospital will be in charge of carrying out clinical trials to determine the functionality of the manufactured products or the length of the project and thus establish the interrelation between nutrition and health, contributing in all phases to the foundation of the healthy life model. The AHGAVES Project will be carried out between the years 2018 and 2021, it is subsidized by the Galician Innovation Agency through the CONECTA PEME Program, supported by the Department of Economy, Employment and Industry of the Xunta de Galicia and co-financed by the European Union through the European Development Fund Regional “A way to make Europe”, within the thematic objective 1, promote technological development, innovation and quality research.
Main progress of the project
Annuity 2019. The members of the consortium finished defining the specifications of the products and the needs of the two processes that must be developed to achieve comprehensive management of the production chain. In addition, tests were initiated to obtain innovative fertilizers from vintage by-products of cream production. On the other hand, formulations of functional creams were developed that will be subjected to the first organoleptic tests of the clinical intervention study in the elderly.
Annuity 2020. The members of the consortium continued to develop different formulations of aged functional creams aimed at the elderly to select those suitable for the development of the clinical intervention study. The beneficial properties of these creams have also been studied in the laboratory through biochemical bioassays, nutritional studies and their function in cell lines. The by-products obtained from the production of creams continued to develop fertilizers and study the production of biogas and biostimulant composts, among other applications.
Annuity 2021. The members of the consortium completed the clinical study that was carried out on the vintage creams developed within the scope of the project selected for this purpose. The complete clinical study is used to carry out in vitro bioaccessibility and biodixestibility studies to evaluate the interaction between the minerals present in creams with medications that are consumed by this frequently successful population sector.
Final conclusions:
- The nutritional needs of older people were identified mainly in relation to the availability of different types of fiber and minerals of interest to this sector of the population that would have the habitual consumption of vegetables.
- The plant species were selected to carry out cultivation tests and study the changes in their nutritional and functional characteristics according to the variety cultivated and the cultivation conditions used.
- Different recipes of vexetais creams were formulated and developed that were characterized nutritionally and functionally organoleptic and that included different vexetais varieties typical of Galician agriculture and other ingredients that complemented the nutritional and functional properties of the final product.
- A strategy for the management of vintage sub-products was proposed and the potential improvements in the production process of vintage creams were identified, studying the life cycle carried out in two final prototypes.
- Develop a clinical intervention study in elderly people institutionalized in nursing homes to evaluate the effect of consumption of aged creams developed on their well-being.
- The results of the clinical study demonstrated that the vintage creams developed within the scope of the AHGAVES project improved intestinal rhythm, relieved periodicity, consistency and appearance of feces and favored the reduction of polypharmacy or the withdrawal of laxatives.
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