Health and Care. Principality of Asturias Health Service
Digitally transforming hospital services
Digital innovation in hospital medical imaging, radiodiagnosis and nuclear medicine services to adapt them to the new reality of interoperability, continued care, precision medicine, radiomics, and artificial intelligence. The main goal is to solve the complexity of current and future medicine.
Own product
Change consulting and management
3300-bed hospitals
Health Service among the best public healthcare services in Spain
SESPA, or the Principality of Asturias Health Service, is the public body that has managed healthcare issues since its transfer of powers in 2002 from the former Insalud of the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias, with over one million inhabitants distributed across eight health areas. It manages seven public hospitals, six state-subsidised private hospitals with over 3,300 beds in total, 82 health centres and a workforce of over 15,000 employees. It currently generates more than one million imaging tests a year.
Software AG was able to implement the corporate digital imaging system RIS-PACS for SESPA in 2005, during the boom in the modernisation of radiodiagnosis systems in Spain, with strong competition in the sector. In 2010, at the same time as the implementation in the hospital of reference HUCA, an solution was also provided to the workflow of the Nuclear Medicine Radiopharmacy Unit. It was fully implemented in all health centres by 2013, and has since been maintaining and developing the digital imaging system in the region.
Transforming the Radiodiagnosis Nuclear Medicine service of public and state-subsidised private hospitals in the Principality of Asturias.
SESPA’s radiodiagnosis and nuclear medicine services previously worked with obsolete and poorly integrated textual information systems (from the former INSALUD), and revealing film to generate image plates in analogue format. The medical file or record was mainly on paper or similar, and the workflows of hospitals required digitisation.
We developed our own RIS product (EOS), integrated it into the HIS/HCE hospital systems, and into the PACS and speech recognition products from two niche manufacturers. Furthermore, this RIS/PACS solution was progressively implemented in all hospitals, adapting it to the different imaging circuits that exist, at the same time as the modernisation of their HIS/HCE systems, and managing the change in the organisation. Working closely with the client, we developed a specific RIS evolution, integrating it into the radiopharmaceutical management circuit of the nuclear medicine service radiopharmacy unit implemented at HUCA.
We are currently responsible for the maintenance and development of this digital imaging and radiopharmacy system, adapting and integrating it into telemedicine circuits and other imaging specialities, along with post-imaging processing and assisted diagnostics applications using artificial intelligence.
An integrated approach for project success
Onboarding of a multidisciplinary team, with a functional leader with experience in RIS/PACS systems, and a technological leader with experience in developing web applications for the public administration.
System selection and integration into market-leading products for voice recognition, and for the PACS system.
Project aimed at change management and customer and user satisfaction.
Use of agile methodologies to align and coordinate real-time project efforts with client expectations and needs.
We are the only provider of the healthcare ecosystem to have been implementing its imaging solution in all SESPA hospitals since 2005.
We have managed to unify access to imaging throughout the entire region.
We are the trusted partner for new initiatives in the field of digital medical imaging by SESPA, such as the expansion of telemedicine, the incorporation of circuits from other imaging services, and the development of clinical tools.
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