Telefónica to market tele-rehabilitation platform from Guttmann Institute
The agreement highlights the role of ICT in providing care services to improve quality, efficiency and sustainability in the healthcare system.

By Biocat
The Guttmann Institute and Telefónica have closed an agreement to boost sales and use of the NeuroPersonalTrainer® platform, through which people with cognitive decline can follow a personalized neuropsychological rehabilitation treatment from home. Specifically, the task of boosting this innovative made-in-Catalonia e-health system will fall to the e-Health division of Telefónica, which is present in Spain, the United Kingdom and Latin America. Through the end of 2012, the company in charge of selling this product was Indra, but the contract was terminated because the results were not as expected.
More than 12 million cases of brain damage occur each year in Europe, and an estimated 60,000 in Spain.
The NeuroPersonalTrainer® system was presented in late 2011 as a result of a research project conducted by Guttmann, Rovira i Virgili University and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia Biomedical Engineering Research Center. Since then, Institut Guttmann has offered monitored therapeutic programs that improve attention span, memory and information-processing speed after a stroke, traumatic brain injury, age or dementia related decline, and other pathologies like schizophrenia, brain tumors and neurodegenerative diseases (multiple sclerosis, Parkinson, ataxias, etc.). These programs have also been adapted for children, strengthening the fun side of the exercises to keep them motivated.
Guttmann’s Institute innovation in therapeutic procedures and techniques in the neurosciences has further boosted the center’s international renown. Guttmann is one of the three hospitals in Barcelona where students in the Design Health Barcelona program by Moebio —Biocat’s newly launched talent-development initiative— will spend time to design new technology to improve the quality of patient care and address real unmet needs.
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