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Winning projects of the Basque Country and Castile and Leon data competitions
Promoting the data culture is a key objective at the national level that is also shared by the regional administrations. One of the ways to achieve this purpose is to award those solutions that have been developed with open datasets, an initiative that enhances their reuse and impact on society.
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The European Union expands the categories to be considered high-value data
The concept of High-Value data (High-Value datasets) was introduced by the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union 4 years ago, in Directive (EU) 2019/1024. In it, they were defined as a series of datasets with a high potential to generate "benefits for society, the environment and…
Helpvoice!, Hospital Morbidity Survey and RIAN win the IV Aporta Challenge
The IV edition of the Aporta Challenge, whose motto has revolved around 'The value of data for health and well-being of citizens', has already announced its three winners. The competition, promoted by Red.es in collaboration with the Secretary of State for Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence,…
The 10 finalists of the 4th Aporta Challenge have been published
Last November, Red.es, in collaboration with the Secretary of State for Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence launched the 4th edition of the Aporta Challenge. Under the slogan "The value of data for health and well-being of citizens", the competition seeks to identify new services and solution…
Predictive models, linked data or geospatial intelligence, examples of the 38 proposals in the 4th Aporta Challenge
The deadline for receiving applications to participate in the IV Aporta Challenge closed on 15 February. In total, 38 valid proposals were received in due time and form, all of high quality, whose aim is to promote improvements in the health and well-being of citizens through the reuse of data offer…
Meet the Jury of the IV edition of the Aporta Challenge
15 personalities from the field of innovation, data and health will be in charge of evaluating the proposals received at the IV edition of the Aporta Challenge, the competition that seeks to reward ideas and prototypes that promote improvements in a specific sector -in this case health and well-bein…
10 repositorios de datos públicos relacionados con la salud y el bienestar
Una de las líneas de acción de la Comisión Europea para los próximos meses, es la creación de un espacio europeo de datos sanitarios. Siguiendo los pasos de Europa, el Gobierno español también tiene entre sus planes poner en marcha un data lake sanitario con una gran cantidad de datos en bruto a dis…
Health and wellness datasets at datos.gob.es and other examples of initiatives
If there is a field in which data are of great importance, it is in health. Through indicators obtained from various diagnostic tests and our history, doctors can know what is happening in our body, decide what treatment we should take and estimate how we are going to evolve. But for their estimates…
Apertura de Datos: 10 apuntes clave sobre el valor de los datos abiertos
¿Cuál es el valor de los datos abiertos? Hace unas semanas, con el objetivo de contribuir a dar respuesta a esta pregunta, publicamos un artículo donde se presentaban los principales hallazgos de uno de los últimos informes publicados por la Comisión Europea y el Portal Europeo de Datos: “El impacto…
Value of open data in global health sector
As healthcare systems worldwide become increasingly digitized, medical researchers and experts have more data than ever. Such information, open and accessible, provides major opportunities not only for national health policies but for diagnoses and tailored treatments known as stratified medic…
