Doctors and patients built on Internet's first virtual medical encyclopedia.

The project has been funded by the Plan Avanza and has the backing of major Latin American organizations.

Salupedia is the first Web-based social collaboration between health professionals and citizens.


Salupedia is the result of extraordinary effort of citizens and health professionals, to achieve secure access to health information online.

Create a user community where professionals (doctors, nurses, psychologists...) Recommend content, existing but dispersed in the network, patients, families and citizens in general, is a new experience and enriching for both groups.

Thus, the citizen finds a place to access reliable information on health, recommended by professionals. The practitioner, in turn, has a place of trust where to direct their patients when they want to prescribe information.

In the words of Dr. Ignacio Basagoiti, project manager Salupedia is many things, an encyclopedia, a social web, community, Web 2.0 experience. . . but is mainly a tool to recommend, and receive health information secure. It is the first time he starts a project like this and be able to do in our language is a measure of maturity that has reached the Spanish on the Internet

One of the most important activities of health professionals is to recommend information and educate people. Citizens easily incorporate more preventive activities, follow their medication and get better clinical benefits when couples understand what is happening and are involved in your healing process.

Salupedia is because a family medical encyclopaedia that retrieves, sorts and orders, the best information on health was created by a community of professionals and citizens whose roles and differentiated activities and enrich certify that information.

Salupedia has been made possible by a grant from the Ministry of Industry, through the convening of the Avanza Plan for digital content and is backed by leading organizations such as the Spanish Association of Pediatrics, the Medical Association of Argentina and the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia.


The project has been run by the Institute ITACA-TSB and conducted by TSB Solutions.


About ITHACA-TSB


ITHACA-TSB is a group of excellence dedicated to the development and transfer of new technology applications to improve the quality of life: telemedicine and e-health, e-inclusion, Ambient Intelligence (AMI) and information for health.


ITHACA-TSB seeks to implement initiatives to promote health, specifically on issues such as physical activity and healthy eating habits, creating scenarios where the integration techniques are vital signs telemonitoring, knowledge management, application of motivational strategies, and so on .


ITHACA TSB belongs to the Institute of the Polytechnic University of Valencia, working on major European and national projects such as PIPS, Vaal HeartCycle, Persona, Nuadu, etc.. It also offers solutions for institutions and companies as Educasalud (Fundación Telefónica), Digital Cities (Alcoy, Santander), Hospital Visiting (Hospital La Fe), Ambulatory Surgery (Hospital Dr. Peset, etc.).


About TSB Solutions


TSB SOLUTIONS SA is a company dedicated to introducing and developing new technologies for personalized health care and welfare, improving the quality of life of people, and creating new business opportunities from their research and technological capabilities.


TSB SOLUTIONS SA was founded in January 2008 as a spin-off ITACA Institute of the Polytechnic University of Valencia. Based on the experience of over ten years of research for social and health sector, and thanks to its structure and alliances, TSB SOLUTIONS SA has the ability to effectively evaluate and exploit the business potential of R & D of greater relevance in the sector, bringing to market new products and solutions.


Furthermore TSB SOLUTIONS SA has an extensive network of professional and personal relationships with Spanish, European and multinational companies, with government, with NGOs and with funding agencies of the R & D, developed in the framework of research projects and contracts made, which gives TSB SOLUTIONS SA a broad and deep state of technology, our skills and the market they are targeting.


Website:


http://www.salupedia.org
http://www.tsb.upv.es
http://www.tsbsoluciones.com