Digital transformation in long-term care: Innovations from the field

On 16 May, 2024, a well-attended EHTEL Imagining 2029 webinar - organised together with the support of the Laurel project - brought together EHTEL members and friends and Laurel consortium members.
Close to 30 people attended the webinar. EHTEL Digital Health Facilitators, Tino MARTI and Sara CANELLA, ran the show.
The webinar:
Showcased a truly innovative application of digital technology to improve long-term care.
Discussed how best to identify other potential applications for the near future.
- Generated a series of reflections on how to assess the innovations.
The first part of the webinar concentrated on digital technologies in support of people with long-term care needs in the city of Manresa, in the otherwise rural, central region of Catalonia in Spain. It examined Manresa's, and the Althaia hospital's, experience with digitalising long-term care. Bartomeu AYALA (Head of Training and Professional Development at the Althaia Foundation) presented the SiSS Manresa success story.
The second part of the webinar was more theoretical. Jorge Alfonso KURANO of the University Polytechnic of Madrid, Spain introduced a potential framework for the analysis of high-level technologies applied to the long-term care sector.