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            MIHealth Forum
          
        
        
          Management & Clinical Innovation Forum
        
        
          
            21-22/May
          
        
        
          Montjuïc. 3th edition
        
        
          At its third celebration, this forum devoted
        
        
          to innovation in the management of health
        
        
          centres and system, staged at the Congress
        
        
          Palace, brought together professionals from
        
        
          the fields of medicine, health management,
        
        
          politics and industry.
        
        
          Over two days, the symposium featured
        
        
          lectures by seventy internationally prestigious
        
        
          speakers, who discussed the challenges facing
        
        
          the transformation of health with the aim of
        
        
          conserving health services and making them
        
        
          more sustainable. This Third MIHealth Forum
        
        
          also focused on the use of technology, the
        
        
          promotion of entrepreneurship and the role
        
        
          played by patients as tools to transform systems
        
        
          and make a more responsible use of resources.
        
        
          The lectures were structured around three
        
        
          key themes: clinical knowledge and innovation
        
        
          management: from idea to market; technologies
        
        
          for the transformation of the health system;
        
        
          and innovation in the management of health
        
        
          organisations. The speakers included such
        
        
          important figures as Pedro Guillén, the first
        
        
          surgeon to use Google Glass during an operation;
        
        
          Stephen J. Swensen, director of the Office of
        
        
          Leadership and Organization Development at the
        
        
          May Clinic (United States); and Ron S. Dembo,
        
        
          founder of Zerofootprint Software.
        
        
          At this latest edition, the MIHealth Forum
        
        
          prizes for innovation were awarded in three
        
        
          categories, corresponding to the key themes
        
        
          on the symposium programme. The awards
        
        
          went to the firm of Transmural Biotech for
        
        
          its development of a quick, non-invasive test
        
        
          for foetal lung maturity; and to the Hospital
        
        
          Clinic of Barcelona for both a new automated
        
        
          system of haematological diagnosis by imaging
        
        
          and also by a new organisational model for
        
        
          nursing introduced at this health centre in the
        
        
          Catalan capital.
        
        
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