Doctors and patients on the Internet built the 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 the extraordinary efforts of citizens and health professionals to ensure safe access to health information online.

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

In this way, people find a place to access reliable information on health, recommended by professionals. The professional, in turn, have a trusted place where leading their patients when prescribing want information.

In the words of Dr. Ignacio Basagoiti, director of the project "Salupedia is many things, an encyclopedia, a social Web, a community, an experience of Web 2.0. . . but is primarily a tool for recommending and receiving secure information about health. It is the first time you put a project like this and be able to do in our language reflects the maturity that has reached the Internet in Spanish "

One of the most important activities of health professionals is to recommend information and educate the population. Citizens more easily incorporate preventive activities, better still get your medication and greater clinical benefit when they understand what they experience and engage in their healing process.

Salupedia is thus a true family medical encyclopedia that retrieves, sorts and ranks the best health information on the Internet, created by a community of professionals and people with different roles and activities enrich and certify that information.

Salupedia has been made possible by a grant from the Ministry of Industry, through the convening of the forward 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-by TSB and TSB Solutions.


About ITACA-TSB


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


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


TSB ITACA belongs to the Institute of the Polytechnic University of Valencia, and worked in major European and national projects such as PIPS, Vaal HeartCycle, Person, Nuadu, etc.. It also offers solutions for institutions and companies as Educasalud (Fundación Telefónica), Digital Cities (Albany, Santander), Hospital Homecare (Hospital La Fe), Ambulatory Surgery (Hospital Dr. Peset, etc.).


About TSB Solutions


TSB Solutions Inc. is a company dedicated to introducing and developing new technologies for personalized health care and welfare, improving the quality of life and creating new business opportunities based on their technological capabilities and research.


TSB Solutions Inc. Founded in January 2008 as a spin-off of the Institute ITACA of the Polytechnic University of Valencia. Based on the experience of over ten years of research for health-sector partner, and thanks to its structure and alliances, TSB SOLUTIONS SA has the capacity to effectively assess and exploit the business potential of R & D more relevant to the sector, bringing to the market new products and solutions.


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


Websites:


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