On Tuesday, November 14, we had the opportunity to co-host the event “AI Integration in Healthcare” with Hospital Universitario La Paz, a webinar where we set out to show how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the healthcare sector.
With this online event, we brought together experts in health and technology to discuss the latest trends and applications of AI in medicine.
An Event to Discover the Potential of AI in Medicine
During this hour-and-a-half session, attendees enjoyed presentations covering different aspects of AI in medicine.
The event opened with an introduction from Silvia Roldán Fernández, Deputy Minister of Digitalization for the Community of Madrid, and Rafael Pérez-Santamarina Feijóo, Managing Director of Hospital Universitario La Paz, who highlighted the importance of “using innovative solutions to improve user care and patient wellbeing.”
In this first segment, Pau Garcia-Milà spoke about Founderz and our interest in offering “agile, fast, and up-to-date” programs that help us meet our goal of democratizing access to education.
Next, Ana Gómez Galindo, Coordinator of the Digital Transformation Executive Committee at Hospital Universitario La Paz, explored how AI is being integrated into everyday medical practice, improving efficiency and patient care through the creation of a repository of use cases with prompts, plugins, and more.
This tool made it possible, for example, to create regulatory compliance checklists and identify documents, papers, studies, and best practices from reference centers.
New Advances in Diagnosis and Treatment
Jorge Álvarez Troncoso, from the Internal Medicine Department, noted that “AI is transforming medical practice into more precise, personalized, and accessible medicine.” Among other applications, AI can help diagnose certain rare diseases early, making it possible to create personalized treatments for each patient.
AI lets us imagine a world where every diagnosis is a step toward a personalized treatment, designed not just for a disease, but for one unique human being
Álvarez Troncoso, Internal Medicine Department, Hospital Universitario La Paz
Milagros Martí de Gracia, Head of the Emergency Radiology Section, shared insights about the Alisse Project for the European Space Agency (ESA), developed together with Spanish tech group GMV and the Complutense University of Madrid to build “an AI development that enables ultrasound scans on future crewed space missions.”
She also noted that the AI solutions used at the hospital “represent a significant improvement in radiology operations that translates into a benefit for the patient.”
María Alonso de Leciñana, Head of the Neurosonology and Computational Neurology Section at La Paz, explained how AI contributes to diagnosing and treating neurological disorders, noting that “very soon, automatic image analysis will make it possible to accurately diagnose a Parkinson’s patient without prior training.”
Innovative AI-Based Projects Changing Medicine
In his presentation on advanced genomics, Pablo D. Lapunzina Badía, Scientific Director of CIBERER and Head of Research at INGEMM, showcased the progress achieved through the Medigenomics Project, “an integrated, real-time precision genomics platform that improves the diagnosis of genetic diseases.”
We also learned about the Aimedicum project, which makes it possible to “integrate and classify all human pathologies into common diseases, rare diseases, poisonings and toxicities, and compile all adverse drug effects.”
Antonio Pérez Martínez, Head of the Pediatric Hemato-Oncology Department, led a segment introducing a genetic panel exclusively for childhood cancer, covering “rare diseases for which advanced molecular diagnosis is increasingly necessary to find targeted treatments and new therapeutic tools.”
Javier de Castro Carpeño, Head of the Medical Oncology Section, explained that AI projects related to personalized medicine require more than “state-of-the-art technology, we also need experts who can make diagnoses in both research and clinical care.”
Applications for Patient Care and Key Takeaways
Laura Benítez, Healthcare Industry Technology Strategist at Microsoft, showcased tools developed by Microsoft for the healthcare sector, including applications like Nuance, which enable real-time transcription of a consultation so the clinician can review it and optimize patient care.
To close the session, Ana Gómez Galindo emphasized that “training and education are essential for using AI-based tools,” underscoring the importance of professionals developing a deep understanding of the ethical and practical aspects of this technology.
If you want to learn more about the application of AI in medicine and discover how our Master’s program can help you understand this field and apply it in your sector, get in touch with our team.
