Patient portal
The SJD Barcelona Children's Hospital is making moves towards digitalising healthcare with this project, evolving over the last decade into its current iteration, influenced by the post-pandemic world.
The digital transformation of the SJD Barcelona Children's Hospital began in 2009, when the Liquid Hospital project first took shape, based on the fact that patients were more comfortable at home than in hospital. To make remote care possible, it became clear that the healthcare model at the SJD had to go beyond the hospital's walls, offering more information to families in the first instance, and secondly, tending to them remotely.
In the first stage of the project, the hospital's digitalisation effort focused on virtual, participative spaces. The Liquid Hospital project kept progressing and evolving, moving towards a proactive healthcare and data collection model in 2016 (Liquid Hospital 4.0). In 2019, the Cortex project was launched, founded on smart data and remote healthcare provision (telemedicine and contact and information platforms for patients and families).
One of the primary objectives of Liquid Hospital is to anticipate change and allow for rapid implementation when necessary: something which was especially useful during the COVID-19 pandemic, when new healthcare habits and the normalisation of remote healthcare became particularly relevant. While remote healthcare made up 18% of healthcare activity before the pandemic, during that period it reached heights of 60%, later consolidating itself as practically a third of all visits and consultations.
With the consolidation of a digital ecosystem, the way data and information is generated in a hospital environment has also changed. Until now, a reactive model was utilised to analyse data a posteriori. Now, trends have shifted towards a predictive model, which uses a base algorithm to help the organisation prepare before changes occur. This system also allows for an alteration to decision making circuits and a standardisation of remote healthcare models.
Key infrastructure of Cortex
The Hospital Command Center permits all areas that require monitoring to be covered simultaneously, opening the doors to new smart data management workflows, thereby contributing to both knowledge and proper hospital functioning. This data collection model, aimed at prediction and anticipation, is how the Hospital is directing the course of its healthcare model towards the 22nd century. Cortex is made up of three large areas.
It is an underpinning aspect of remote healthcare provision, connecting it to telemedicine consultations and e-Care. The goal of this Hospital is to standardise medical responses and attend patients through all viable channels. An open space with the capacity for simultaneous cross-disciplinary consultation in real time.
A monitoring and control hub focusing on the mass collection of data in order to design predictive algorithm systems. It allows for real-time monitoring of the activity across various hospital areas (theatres, wards, etc) with the aim of optimising available resources and improving their management, in line with healthcare priorities.
This combines remote healthcare with monitoring in certain areas. For example, it has been used in the Cardiology Department, where patient monitoring has allowed for the development of predictive models concerning patient progress. It has also been used in large projects and by partners (Berga telemedicine project, Teladoc remote healthcare robot, the Únicas Network, etc.).
Other projects
Network to improve the diagnosis and care of patients with rare diseases.
Plan that consolidates SJD Hospital as a center of high specialization in Paediatrics and maternal health at an international level.