Innovations in telemedicine and rehabilitation
Indra's commitment to the application of new technologies to healthcare and its ventures into telemedicine have been strengthened by the recent agreement between the company and the Guttmann Institute, a benchmark hospital in the surgical treatment and the complete rehabilitation of people with spinal injuries, acquired brain injury and neurological disabilities. This alliance is driving Indra's activity in the healthcare field, where its systems and solutions benefit over 32 million people on four continents, with outstanding contributions in areas such as digital imaging, electronic prescriptions and electronic medical records, among others.
The agreement allows Indra to introduce an innovative system for remote cognitive rehabilitation onto the international market, the “Guttmann NeuroPersonalTrainer®”, which comprises a new way of providing neuro-psychological rehabilitation services for cognitive damage, associated with pathologies such as dementia, ageing, mental health and changes in the different childhood developmental disorders, in an intensive and personalised way, monitoring and gathering information at the same time, at an affordable and sustainable cost for the different social players that are involved.
This innovative technology is the result of a research project which began in 2003 under the name PREVIRNEC®, between the Guttmann Institute, the Rovira i Virgili University and the Biomedical Engineering Research Centre of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. To date, it has enabled the treatment of more than 800 patients through over 20 platforms installed in the Guttmann Institute itself and other healthcare centres, and over 100 patients have received this clinical care at home. A total of 32,000 sessions and over 210,000 tasks have been carried out, with results demonstrating that 80% of patients show significant improvement in terms of attention, memory and executive functions.
This model, which has shown itself to be clinically effective, provides an efficient solution, both for the public and private healthcare models and for providing neuro-psychological rehabilitation services and cognitive stimulation, whether through the neurorehabilitation services in general or local hospitals, day hospitals, daycare centres and nursing homes for the elderly, or in the patient's home, with a unique element that distinguishes it from other solutions available worldwide: the capacity to generate knowledge.
This solution also uses the latest discoveries in cognitive neuroscience and incorporates cutting edge solutions in information and communication technology, and artificial intelligence, such as KDD systems (knowledge discovery in databases) and data mining, enabling the system to automatically adapt to the needs of each patient in real time.