Digital health
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Digital Health Start-up Stories: Imaz Technology, an example of flexibility in front of challenges
Along the years Biocat has observed that in our sector companies and innovators need often value highly the experiences of others that walked their same path previously. In the committment of BRIGHT to contribute in the digital transformation of the life sciences and health sector, we start today...
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Good practices from clusters fighting inequalities - The gender gap in the life sciences and healthcare sector: status, challenges and recommendations
In the life sciences and healthcare sector, there are inequalities in salaries and access to executive positions, despite being better than other industries. The report drafted by Biocat for the Catalan Ministry of Equality and Feminisms compiles and analyzes this data and proposes recommendations...
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Health Technology Assessment Framework: Adaptation for Digital Health Technology Assessment
Digital health is the use of digital technologies to improve people's health and well-being, as well as the smarter use of clinical and genetic data for patient healthcare. Digital technologies bring an opportunity to address the main challenges facing the Catalan healthcare system such as the...
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Starting the post-BRIGHT era: The BioRegion Report 2023 widening and diversifying the BRIGHT network
The presentation of the 2023 BioRegion Report will take place next February 12, 2024. The document includes the main innovation indicators and the macroeconomic data of the life sciences and healthcare sector in Catalonia updated to December 2023, including investment figures. This event, which has...
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BRIGHT and MEDIC NEST joint final event: Chronicle of two projects looking at the future
On the 24 th of January 2024, the MEDIC-NEST and BRIGHT projects officially closed their activities in a joint event for the two projects in Brussels. While goodbyes are not always easy to say, every end sets a new starting point. On Wednesday the 24 th of January, the MEDIC-NEST and BRIGHT projects...
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Artificial intelligence and healthcare data at Tech Spirit Barcelona 2023: where we are and where we are heading
The fourth year of this event coincided with the tenth anniversary of Tech Barcelona. This further strengthens the event’s position as a meeting point for the technology ecosystem in the Catalan capital, where Biocat discussed the current state and future perspectives of artificial intelligence and...
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Digital Health ClusterXchange in Barcelona
The BRIGHT project opens the opportunity to visit Barcelona for a 5-day stay between the 27th of November and the 1st of December. During your visit you will attend two events that will serve you to build your network in Catalonia with regional, national, and international experts in the fields of...
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DESIRE Funding Call to Be Launched Soon
The DESIRE Open Call for funding will be launched on September 13, 2023 and remain open for submissions until November 13, 2023 - 5 PM CET (Central European Time) . Individual SMEs or consortia composed of a maximum of two SMEs, or one SME and another legal entity can apply for funding. Only SMEs...
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A BRIGHT Future: The Uppsala Cluster Study Visit
A BRIGHT Future for Uppsala – The Uppsala Cluster Visit In October, STUNS Life science hosted the second cluster study visit of the BRIGHT project. During the visit, the idea was to promote the project to the ecosystem in Uppsala, Sweden, but also to promote the ecosystem to the partners of BRIGHT...
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Data and health: an indissoluble binomial
Europe launched the European Health Data Space (EDHS) this May. However, obstacles such as interoperability and secondary use of data remain to be overcome, but there are also initiatives driven by Estonia and its entire network of Nordic and Scandinavian countries to reflect this.
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Two new European projects to maximize impact of innovation in BioRegion of Catalonia
Biocat has started working, in conjunction with partners all over Europe, on the European BRIGHT and INNAXE projects to maximize the impact of innovation generated in the BioRegion and align the organization’s strategy with current European and international trends in the life sciences and...