- “Guttmann, neuropersonalTrainer®” is a state-of-the-art cognitive e-rehabilitation platform which enables the provision of neurorehabilitation services in an intensive, customized, controlled, efficient and sustainable way.
- The project, led by Institut Guttmann, is a model of joint innovation at national level and is based on Knowledge Economy as a key aspect of evolution and innovation for Institut Guttmann as well as for the other institutions and universities who participate and contribute the necessary knowledge-different subjects-to address in an efficient and cost-effective way a real need of a large amount of people aiming at making more with less
- Indra will contribute its broad experience in the implementation and integration of health solutions by introducing this new cognitive e-rehabilitation system across the globe
- Acquired brain injury (traumatic brain injury and Ictus), dementia, mental diseases and disorders during child development are among those pathologies with a larger global impact on world economy and they all occur with cognitive disorders
Indra and the Institut Grumann have signed a collaboration agreement this morning to introduce “Guttmann, NeuroPersonalTrainer®”, a state-of-the-art cognitive e-rehabilitation platform, in the international market. This system sets a new modality of neuropsychological rehabilitation regarding cognitive decline associated to pathologies like dementia, aging, mental health and disorders during child development in an intensive, customised, controlled way but at the same time capable of generating knowledge, sustainable and cost-effective for the social agents involved.
A matter of public health
Cognitive decline has been detected to be the main cause of impairments as reported by the WHO. 3 out of the 5 main health issues in developed countries for the next 20 years are associated to cognitive disorders.
- Acquired Brain Injury: It is estimated that in the European Union the amount of new patients with cognitive disorders exceed 1, 200 000.
- Aging: Life expectancy in Europe is over 75 years and when compared to dementia in that age range it represents a frequency of occurrence similar to that of an epidemic.
- Mental disorders: In Europe more than 250,000 new Schizophrenia cases are diagnosed each year.
Besides these three diseases, in adult age, we should add the impact of intellectual disability and cognitive disorders during childhood where a significant percent of school failure in Europe has underlying cognitive impairments of different etiology.
A model of technology transfer
“Guttmann, NeuroPersonalTrainer®”is the result of a research project which started in 2003 under the name of PREVIRNEC® and was developed by Institut Guttmann, Universitat Rovira i Virgili and The Biomedical Engineering Research Centre (CREB) of the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC).
The solution so far has allowed treatment of over 800 patients with more than 20 platforms installed at the Institut Guttmann and at other assistance centers and over 100 patients have received clinical assistance at home. In total, 32,000 sessions have been delivered including more than 210,000 activities with results showing that 80% of patients have significantly improved in terms of attention, memory and executive functions.
This effective and proven model offers an efficient solution for public and private healthcare as well as for the provision of cognitive stimulation and neuropsychological rehabilitation services, being it through e-rehabilitation facilities in general hospitals, outpatient surgery centers, extended care facilities, nursing homes or the patient’s home. All the cases present a distinguishing feature which sets the solution aside form the rest: the capacity to generate knowledge.
“Guttmann, NeuroPersonalTrainer®” employs the latest findings in cognitive neuroscience and incorporates cutting-edge solutions of information technologies and communication and artificial intelligence such as KDD (Knowledge Discovery Data) and Data Mining which allows automatic customization of the system in real time according to each patient’s needs.
Corporate information
Indra
Indra collaborates with Institut Guttmann with its hi-tech solutions and services and contributes its broad experience in the implementation and integration of IT solutions and expert resources for the provision of consultancy services, development, commercialisation, installation and startup of IT systems and solutions, maintenance and associated services.
Nowadays, over 32 million people in more than four continents benefit from Indra’s solutions and systems for the health sector. The company’s solutions are in use by more than 100,000 professionals in over 5,600 health centres and hospitals making 500,000 daily medical appointments possible. Indra’s technologies and knowledge applied to health are based on its health solutions portfolio which specialises in Telemedicine, digital Imaging, electronic prescription or electronic medical records, among others. This platform is the fruit of cumulative experience in the development of projects for private and public sectors, at both national and international levels.
Indra is the premier Information Technology Company in Spain and a leading IT multinational in Europe and Latin America. It is ranked as the second European company in its sector according to investment in R&D with nearly € 500 M during the last three years. In 2010 revenues reached € 2,557 M of which a 40% came from the international market. The company employs more than 31,000 professionals and has clients in more than 110 countries.
Institut Guttmann
Institut Guttmann is a leading hospital in the medical treatment, surgery and full rehabilitation of patients with spinal cord injury, acquired brain damage or any other serious neurological disability. As a higly-specialised hospital it employs a multidisciplinary team of over 400 professionals, whose work use a model based on experience, humane treatment and scientific rigour. All this makes of Institut Guttmann a Knowledge centre and a Centre of Excellence leader of an international business cluster of over 67 companies, including hospitals, research centres, especialised companies, universities, both national and international.
Technology partners. Companies: . ICA Group, Vodafone, SEMIC and βCare. Universities: Technical University of Madrid (UPM), Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), University Rovira i Virgili (URV) and Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF). Technology centres: BDigital, TecnoCampus Mataró-Maresme and the TICSalut Foundation.
Knowledge partners. The Catalonian Institut de l'Envelliment, The Corporació Sanitària Parc Taulí, Consorci Sanitari del Maresme and AMPANS Asso
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