well I think we start please
thinking about a global health problem
to a problem that goes beyond the
borders and that we can solve for
collaborative way
I do not know if they remember Ebola the
Ebola epidemic in 2014 and 2016
the Ebola epidemic was certainly
a rock that caused the death of more
of 11 thousand people
this epidemic developed in the
West Africa
the sierra new lion countries to
sierra sierra leone guinea and liberia
Ebola is a highly
contagious and deadly almost 90%
people who get Ebola
they die of it
if only one about this epidemic
also be you some cases in europe
and I think a case two cases in states
United
Ebola has been shown to yes
we detect in time and we treat it
properly
we decreased considerably that
percentage of patients who die
that’s an appropriate diagnosis and a
monitoring of the disease but we must
to be very careful with that because if
I diagnosed someone with Ebola and that
person does not have, that is, I have a false
positive and generating a panic
unnecessary to whom would you like to be
will diagnose with Ebola not really
you have it all the world would go from you I think
that would not be the most appropriate but for
the other side if we diagnose
or not and agnostic we go to someone with
Ebola and that person if he has a ball
we are spreading the disease is
say that this person was calm and
was to go back home with his family with
your community and will start to infect
others
from there the importance of
diagnosis
good in in africa specifically in
Liberia
this that person that both the center of
the photo
the young doctor kafala he started to
work on the diagnosis and
monitoring of Ebola from a
epidemiological surveillance system
which is a data collection
reliable continues using devices
cell phones using what they had
were the cell phones of people in the
community and what this person
innovative of his work was that the
I develop all this monitoring model
of the disease with the same community
Well, it was called a model of a
community- based initiative
that’s why we talk about tic solutions here
using this type of models that
allowed to is that people are
empowered the problem of people
they started going house to house to look
who had the disease
they started doing a collection
adequate of the data that is to say we use of
the community so that they achieve their
objective with this model could be
substantially reduce the cases of
ball that are presenting in
liberia a successful model and formed the
successful because he took into account the
community but web and the others
diseases
that is to say the Ebola is certainly a
disease that caught our attention
I believe that when the epidemic all
we watched the news and it was chaos and and
everything was a global concern
in front of this disease
but the funny thing is that in Latin America
We did not have a single case instead
we have other diseases that every year
they charge much more lives than the same the
same Ebola in three years
diseases like diseases
cardiovascular diabetes
transmissible diseases auction
infectious diseases such as dengue and
Malaria is important that we
as well
let’s make a diagnosis and monitor
evacuated to these diseases for
can control them today I can talk to you
a little more about certain technologies that
have been developing for such
objective
and like medical informatics every time
has a more important role in a
health that is certainly more and more
He said
we started with a monitoring project and
smart of patients
I personally but always
working as a team
we developed a device that
trained with physiological signals
and patient clinics to detect and
to classify episodes of apnea that
they are breathing breaks in babies
premature
Did you know that one year more than 15
millions of babies are born prematurely in
the world and that those 15 million a
million dies due to complications of
prematurity is good if we
we make a monitor to what we could
get to decrease that amount of
deaths the set we could get to
decrease almost save 750,000
becks if we make an adequate monitor and
if we prevent certain conditions that
they have the same duties
the beauty of all this is that
related to Ebola
if we detect the disease
time and we do an evacuated monitor
we can take out their babies that come to
the intensive care units
neonatals much faster and so
we also decrease the costs in
the care of patients
but themes are smart monitors
but when we have patients in areas
remote
we do not have patients in zones
vulnerable when we can not have them
at the hospital
how could we connect these
monitors that are a diagnostic
appropriate
together with the patient to systems of
collection of information to their
epidemiological surveillance systems
where we obtain data continuously
and reliable way as good healthy is
an organization in haiti with which
I have been working for 17 years now
principle offered this technology
offers
let’s say they have changed a little
organization models
this technology what is really
a
mobile devices a cell phone to
cell where we do an integration
of the monitors with the same
device and with the information that
he usually has the device
this information is sent to the
doctors in the big cities and already
they make a decision of that
patient we can do with the
treatment we are going to give that patient
it’s one silver per platform that is
opensource that is open source and is
a platform that allows
modifications by any of us
we want to detect diseases
We could do the cardiovascular
modifications here then insane in
a principle as I told you was very
focused on this platform in
develop something that was reliable that
were we sure we could take it to
the remote zone of vulnerable zones
however technology is not the
expression is not only plan play no
it’s just having a mobile device
a monitor lead the community and
we solve the problem not here should
have a collaborative work where
engineers
I am an engineer but where sociologists
where administrators where politicians
where economists where many
disciplines collaborate to take
forward a project but not only
it’s apart from collaborative it must be
also as created and generator of
capabilities and those are our 13 now
as we already change our
mantra and we no longer talk about a
platform or just one technology in the
mobile platform for acquisition of
data but we turn a little to the
issue of democratizing access to
health to the issue of revolutionizing that
tension through innovations
computer makes sense and then
those 13 3 mentioned collaboration with
creation and creation of capacities is
I said right now our
organization but not make them an
asks who from here does not have
cellular nobody for nobody the other hand
we all have cell phones I think it’s something
who now lives with us and is part
of the digital transformation that
we have as a society well, there is
more than 5 million cell phones and
cell networks are in 80 and the
90 percent where the population lives
why not convert that coverage into
cellular network without health coverage
we could also achieve what
it’s more interesting of all this in
our interaction with
mobile devices is that we’re
Generating data continuously
we deliver to our
mobile device information from towards
Where do we go if we frequent
we could eventually deliver him
device the mobile device
information about what we eat and how we
we move on how we interact with the
people
apart from that with the devices
the monitors from which came
talking is being generated an amount
awesome and that’s when we started
to talk about peter is when we start
talk about tera saints the importance of
an adequate data analysis to be able
measure the impact not only of
monitor but also the platform
collecting data regarding these
projects have been working on a
particular project
I worked for a while on this basis
Data data mimic data
belong to the technological institute of
massachusetts mit and also in
collaboration with beth hospital
israel from harvard university
It has more than 70,000 patients
intensive care units
many patients their patients were
data and a continuous way so
connected to many monitors but
exams are also taken
laboratory are also taken they are made
continuous reviews
it’s an impressive amount of data
in my nick in particular I was
working on identifying one of those
laboratory results in patients
who had acute myocardial infarction
as it was reflected later in the
survival of the patient
long after having left the
intensive care unit
apart from that I was working also
at the general hospital in massachusetts
and the harvard medical school in
the laboratory and pulmonary imaging
where we seek understanding from
images of the torch images of
computed tomography what was the
pathophysiology of certain diseases
like asthma lung disease
chronic obstructive what we achieved
identify here was that certain routes
are closely related to the
change in lung volume that
they had patients with asthma when
they had a dramatic episode
we know that patients with asthma a
lots are children and here
we started talking about how we could
start offering treatments every time
more personalized to these populations
vulnerable in a project where
I’m working now we’re starting
to do now in Colombia
The idea is to have more coverage
regional is in a particular nail of
hospitals and units
radiotherapy where we treat patients
with cancer
using radiation that is to say we try
attack the cancer cells and
reduce tumors in these units of
radiotherapy
If you have a lot of information too
because it is the planning of the
patients how the x-ray beam came in
to the patient how I protect some tissues
healthy you have too much information and
what we are looking for is to improve these
information systems in a single day
so that they become platforms
appropriate and data acquisition that
after us with the pitcher to little
let’s go to identify what are
treatments for a certain group of
patients that are say with some
specific cancer
then we seek not only to obtain
data but also connect those
platforms with the other platforms of
the hospitals
summarizing everything that is
they were talking
we have a group of technologies group
of technologies like monitors
smart group of technologies like
in the acquisition platforms of
information
turn ana as piteira cotera suns
but those technologies that seek
solve the big problems that
we also have them to be able to
turn into a radical solution
they have to always have the patient in
the center and that’s one of the things that
us from saná
We seek to achieve how the developments are
focused on the patient with us
we always think of the patient first
to be able to give a solution like
case for example of Ebola in Liberia
with the doctor does not undermine them
they thought the community was a problem
of infection of e
the problem that is affecting all
the community thought first the
community and they managed to get a
solution to that but with an initiative
It was passed in the same community
I wanted to leave them with a reflection
in Latin America we have a potential
incredible not only resources
humans in natural resources but
we have a potential in people the
intelligence agent’s quality
people
People who cast pa
Latin America usually does not
relate as to that society that
my heart is very alive and I know that here
it’s like that in colombia it’s like that we think
a lot in people and I think that
should make our difference
we are an energy that
we feel here in the room you want to
passion people with many goals in the
life and that energy that energy that
energy that moves the world
the invitation is for you
fight for your passions
you are new to the world with all the
energy that we are people cast pa lante
I want to finish with three brief
stories the first one we’re talking about
creativity, innovation and creativity
innovation is not only in the
technology development also as
we are facing life we are
creative
if we fight against adversities like
It must be if we are resilient, I come
from a family
of a town in Colombia is a town
which is close to medellín but my
grandparents work the land and grandparents
they were farmers
my grandparents carry beast cars with
food the people who did not have in
Really a lot of money but they taught him
to your children to get ahead
my dad for example learned that and he
to go to present his exam of
admission to the university was mounted in
a car that transported peace that
it takes about three hours at that time
four hours to get to Medellin
mounted on a bundle of paper that is
he was creative in the face of adversity
son is not that I can not measure because I
it’s too far away and I do not have the money to go
he was able to fight against that
there is also another phrase that seems to me
very interesting that the founder says
and now director of the economic forum
world
the teacher swap after creating the
forum after meeting the elders
world leaders after creating
communities within the forum of which
of one she I am part that is the
global community shapers the lyceum
achieved many things but I am happy
but never satisfied with what I give them
I want to communicate that what I do
when they fight for their passions is to be
happy what they do but they are never
always look for a long way
more and finally now yes the last
history no longer red not so here
telling them more accounts is related
with what we saw today the value of the
objects even when for example I the
he gave it to leonardo
now they are going to make it known a little
more because it has so much value to me
because it actually shows what
we are looking with the
technology development that is the
empowerment of people in the
development and in the use of technology
it’s an object that already has too much
value for me that they inhabit they know the
case of someone who knows your problem
who knows the technologies to be able to
solve
I think that is what we have
to transmit and it’s like a time
we were among the technology for
the time to give more and tablet a lot to everything
what has to do with that
digital transformation in which the
which we are very thank you
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