- The first Ribera Innova conference, held at the Lanzadera facilities, reflects the good results of the pilot projects already completed on self-guided psychotherapy, telemonitoring, a virtual caregiver, well-being or neurorehabilitation, among others, and advance the proposal of the new sponsored startups
- Elisa Tarazona, CEO of the healthcare group, and Javier Jiménez, General Manager of Lanzadera, open this work session and highlight the collaboration between large companies such as Ribera and entrepreneurs
El Ribera healthcare group today brought together fifty health professionals and heads of its nine hospitals in Spain with the heads of the nine startups with which it currently works, to share the strengths of these co-innovation projects, pose new challenges and value the results of the pilots already carried out in their hospitals, with real patients.
On this first day of Ribera Innova, held at the facilities of Shuttle, the startup accelerator of Business Marina, there has been talk about self-guided online psychotherapy, telemonitoring of patients, virtual caregivers based on artificial intelligence and voice technology, applications for well-being care and disease prevention, care and treatment of skin problems through a mobile application and neurorehabilitation. For this, the leaders of most of the startups with which the healthcare group has worked in the last two years were present: serenmind,HumanItCare, freedom and flow , Legitimate health, tucuvi y TrakIn addition, the two new startups sponsored by the Ribera health group have been presented, Nootrics y NeuronUp, to facilitate personalized nutrition plans and online rehabilitation respectively.
"The objective of this conference is for all the hospitals of the Ribera group to learn first-hand about the projects that are being developed in the different centers and to share the great opportunity that digital innovation represents", explained Tania Menéndez, Digital Transformation Officer. from Ribera.
For her part, the CEO of the Ribera group, Elisa Tarazona, highlighted the value of this collaboration in co-innovation projects. “Startups have the opportunity to develop specific projects for real patients and verify the results with the pilot projects that we carry out in the hospitals of the group and, at the same time, they help us to continue working to transform Health, improving care for our patients and making it easier for our professionals to monitor and control the health of patients, with real data and constant measurements”, he explained.
During her speech, Elisa Tarazona also made reference to the importance of clinical leadership and digital transformation in crisis situations such as this pandemic. "That is why health professionals and those responsible for technological developments such as those of startups that work in the health sector are key," she concluded.
