Catalonia proposes to create an airport for connecting personalized medicine with European funds

Catalonia proposes to create a Airport for connection of emerging therapies and personalized medicine with European funds ‘Next generation EU’ that Spain will receive to alleviate the crisis produced by the pandemic of coronavirus. This is just one of the three axes of the ‘Health 4.0’ project presented this Thursday at the Ministry of Health, which seeks to mobilize 2 billion euros to transform the Catalan healthcare system. European funds must be approved in April 2021.

‘Health 4.0’ is one of the 27 projects selected by the Government to aspire to these funds which in total will involve the investment of 42,467.8 million euros. In addition to the connecting airport in emerging therapies and personalized medicine, ‘Health 4.0’ aims to transform the infrastructures and equipment of the health system so that “hospitals are more flexible and adaptable and have a way of working more connected “, in the words of Director General of Health Research and Innovation, Robert Fabregat.

“This would also allow emergency systems to be better prepared and equipped,” so that hospitals are “the last place” for the patient to go, which will facilitate the “Decongestion” of the system. Better infrastructure and equipment would also make possible a “more agile distribution” of logistics. “We are now seeing the difficulties, for example, in distributing the covid-19 vaccines. There are smart systems to distribute better, “Fabregat explained by video conference.

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Another axis of ‘Health 4.0’ is the “Digital Transformation” which will allow data to be shared, in a more agile way, between different hospitals. “The system connection needs to be changed,” Fabregat said. the 5G connection would play a key role in this transformation.

According to the Director General of Health Research and Innovation, “European funds are looking for large projects that involve great resources and that they generate a change in the society “. For that reason it looks for initiatives that transform all the system and not so much concrete hospitals. Asked by the affirmation of the economic vice-president of Spain, Nadia Calvin, who last week said that the government would only accept “national” projects, Fabregat said that the Basque Country also presented its project a month ago and that “it is normal for the autonomous communities to put their needs on the table”. And that Calvin’s words obey a moment of election campaign.