Big Data Applied to Healthcare: A Revolution for the Entire Health System

The application of Big Data strategies in the healthcare sector offers numerous benefits, including precise decision-making, improved patient experience, and cost reduction. Collecting and analyzing data can help medical professionals and healthcare administrators make informed decisions about treatments and services. Integrating patient data into a single record allows for integrated medical care, and solutions like electronic data exchange facilitate interoperability and secure clinical information transfer. Additionally, technologies like chatbots, augmented reality, and robotics in healthcare provide further benefits, improving patient admission, surgical practice, and home care. In summary, Big Data has the potential to transform healthcare, enhancing quality and reducing costs.

How Robotics is Accelerating Vertical Farming

Vertical farms allow for sustainable and efficient crop production. Robotic technology and artificial intelligence are key in this process, optimizing everything from monitoring and planting to harvesting. The adoption of robotics in vertical farming will continue to grow, as it can address most challenges and improve the entire crop growth cycle.

Data as the Engine for a New Robotics

Compared to other fields, robotics has particular characteristics because its goal is to enable a physical agent to interact with the real world.

Focused on their day-to-day operations, industrial SMEs often perceive the transition to the 4.0 paradigm as distant, although it is more accessible than they assume

Spanish SMEs, especially in the industrial sector, have low digitalization penetration and need to invest in technology and change their culture to maintain competitiveness. The Digitalization Boost Plan for SMEs 2021-2025 and European Union funds for digital transformation aim to encourage the adoption of new technologies. SMEs often have a distant perception of Industry 4.0 and make mistakes by thinking it only involves having a website and storing data in the cloud. To unlock the true potential of Industry 4.0, SMEs need a comprehensive combination of technologies and a holistic vision, supported by technology partners and data experts.