CORFO and Fundación Nuestros Hijos have reached an alliance through the Digital Transformation Committee with the objective of developing enterprises focused on promoting innovative tools in Digital Health issues and, above all, on addressing the needs of children and young people with cancer. The alliance seeks to reduce gaps and make solutions and treatments available to all socio-economic levels equally.
Through an agreement, the Corporation for the Promotion of Production (CORFO) and Fundación Nuestros Hijos, developed an alliance in which, as part of their activities, they aim to point to a joint collaboration that allows both institutions to work together with entrepreneurs who are initiating projects focused on the use and development of technologies, which can favor the care and accompaniment of girls, boys and young people with cancer that the Foundation supports.
The Corporation for the Promotion of Production (CORFO), an agency of the Government of Chile, is a multi-sector organization that is responsible for stimulating national production, as well as promoting regional economic growth. This, through its digital transformation committee, undertakes to advise the phases of implementation of new digital solutions supporting the Foundation in ideation, design and implementation of new ways of achieving their goals.
Likewise, the goal is to start the Digital Transformation in the Foundation so that, through technological solutions, they improve the service by providing quality care and follow-up to the treatments of their patients.
Juan Francisco Garcia, executive director of the Digital Transformation Committee of CORFO, said after the signing of the collaboration agreement that “from our Digital Health unit we have been working hard to support enterprises that aim to contribute to improving the quality of life of people. In this sense, it is very gratifying for us to support not only the Foundation, but also the girls, boys and adolescents who attend the centers, responding with technological and innovative solutions to improve their quality of life”.
The National Strategic Program "Health+Development", under the CORFO Digital Transformation Committee, is primarily dedicated to promoting the digital development of the health sector.
The strategic axes for the operation are:
- Entrepreneurships and open innovation in digital health.
- Creation and adoption of semantic and syntactic interoperability standards.
- Enabling digital infrastructure.
- Training of trained human capital and dissemination activities.
This is how the world of traditional health services and technology development teams come together with common goals to improve the quality of life of society, so that girls, boys and young people can receive the best possible treatment and technology supports with tools to reach more places and can continue their treatments.
