31Oct 2019 by twidh No Comments

Virtual Therapeutics for More Effective Mental Health Therapies

Recently, we had the chance to catch up with Xavier Palomer Ripoll, CEO at Psious. The company's mental health technology solutions help psychologists and therapists around the world to perform faster and more effective therapies. Psious is the developer of a mobile-based technology, made by psychologists for psychologists, using hyper-realistic virtual environments to treat anxiety disorders by means of virtual exposure therapy. The platform has a suite of mobile applications with virtual environments to provide treatment for multiple phobias as fear of flying, acrophobia, claustrophobia, agoraphobia, among others, as well as relaxation and Mindfulness environments. Psious is building on the efficacious use of virtual exposure therapy technologies by combining several systems such as Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and binaural sound, for making them available on any mobile-based platform, without any specialized equipment…

Digital Help for Behavioral Changes

Digital Health, Startup

With Barcelona Health Hub Summit only a week away, we caught up with Iván Lorca of MedTep. MedTep unifies passive and active data to present it to patients and healthcare professionals in a meaningful way. This allows healthcare professionals and patients to upgrade prevention and monitoring processes fostering the adoption of behavioral changes. What is a digital care plan and why is it important? A care plan is a treatment or prevention program designed and specified by a healthcare professional for a specific patient. It is important because through care plans we aim to help people adopt behavioral changes that allow them to complete therapies, improve adherence and change their lifestyle. Besides that, care plans are defined by leading experts and are based on recognized standards. There are a lot…

Bayer’s G4A Going Beyond the Pill

Digital Health

Anabel León is the IT Business Partner for Consumer Health & Pharma businesses at Bayer Spain Good morning! Firstly, I’d like to thank you for your contribution as a Sponsor to our event, the Barcelona Health Hub Summit and in such context, I will continue by asking you a few questions: Could you explain what Bayer is focusing on? What is your role within Bayer? Bayer is a company where innovation matters, but not only in our products, also in how we work, how we do: we innovate in what we do. That means empowering entrepreneurship among employees, connecting to the brightest minds, pushing boundaries of science and technology and, of course, with collaboration as a pillar. We have good examples: talking about entrepreneurship, here at Spain, we have developed…