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Madrid to introduce artificial intelligence for monitoring chronic patients
The Comunidad de Madrid is developing tools to detect possible complications in chronic patients and to expand healthcare from home.
Madrid’s public healthcare system will use artificial intelligence to identify changes in patients’ health and alert their doctors. The Minister for Digitalisation, Miguel Ángel López-Valverde, has presented a strategy aimed at improving the monitoring of more than two million people with chronic illnesses.
One of its main tools will be CRON-IA. The platform will analyse clinical data from patients with hypertension, diabetes, EPOC, heart failure, or cognitive decline to detect warning signs. The goal is to enable early intervention without requiring every check-up to involve a visit to the health centre.
Remote monitoring will also be expanded through Personaliz@, aimed at people receiving hospital care at home. PREVEN-IA, meanwhile, will combine clinical, genetic, and medical imaging information to create virtual models of patients. These “digital twins” will allow treatments to be simulated and potential risks to be studied before making therapeutic decisions.
The strategy also includes changes to administrative management. Cuenta Digital will incorporate 30 artificial intelligence assistants to guide users through applications for aid, grants, and other procedures. By 2027, the regional government aims to simplify 200 procedures and reduce the time needed to complete these processes to less than a minute.