Saturday, February 14, 2009

Bamberg Foundation and Microsoft signed a cooperation agreement to promote privacy, data protection in health in Latin America.

On November 24, in the presence of the chairman of Microsoft Ibérica, María Graña, was signed between the Foundation and Microsoft Bamberg a collaboration agreement for the promotion of privacy, data protection in health in Latin America. The agreement was signed by Salvador Arribas, Secretary General of the Foundation, and Jose Miguel Calderon, Director of Microsoft Corporation Government and Health for Latin America.

Microsoft is committed to improving health in the world through innovation in software. In recent years Microsoft has steadily increased its investment in health, focusing on meeting the challenges of health providers, organizations of Health and Social Services, funders, consumers and companies in the fields of biotechnology, pharmacology, biomedicine ( life science companies) worldwide. Microsoft closely collaborates with a broad ecosystem of partners and develops its own solutions for Health, innovating solutions and eHealth mSalud (mobile Health) to help improve the quality of life and health care, making them more accessible to all .

Bamberg The Foundation is organized by a board and three advisory bodies such as the Scientific Council, the Advisory Council and the Institutional Council, the latter formed by representatives of institutions and organizations devoted to study, research, development and use of products and technology services of health related to any area of the Foundation, including the Council for Scientific Research, the Basque Foundation for Health Research and Innovation / R & B + O Eusko Foundation, National Cancer Center, the Center of minimally invasive surgery to Cáceres, the National Center for Cardiovascular Research Carlos III, the Foundation for Public Education and Training in Cancer, Technology and Health Foundation, the Foundation TicSalut, the Organization of Ibero-American Social Security, the Spanish Society Health Informatics, the Foundation for Research Development in Genomics and Proteomics and the Spanish Agency for Food Safety and Nutrition among others.

Microsoft is a company whose mission is to help people and businesses around the world reach their potential through the use of information technologies and communication technologies (ICTs). To do this one of their policies is to support government initiatives in countries that will lead to the strengthening of the local technology sector, promote the adoption and use of ICT in the state and society, and promote the access of people to society information and knowledge, while deeply committed to working with businesses, communities and governments to achieve greater social and economic welfare.

Bamberg Foundation The Foundation is a private character that seeks the promotion of health technologies, through actions to enhance its research and development, knowledge and innovative use, taking action in areas involving technology information and communication technologies as the pharmacological and biotechnology, food and health technology, government, science, health centers, associations of patients and healthcare organizations, aimed at improving health and the effective and efficient health system.

Among the major areas of focus of the Foundation are information technology, communications and healthcare software solutions, technology-oriented clinical decision support through artificial intelligence.
Both organizations have established a strategic alliance for joint development of programs and projects that will move to Latin America experiences in health technology, telemedicine and health as the health card, health history and electronic prescriptions, or systems hospital management (paperless hospital) and Radiological Information Systems network developed with Microsoft technologies and, specifically, solutions for privacy, data protection in health in Latin America.

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