With this meeting organized by AEIT-Madrid, the Telecommunications Engineers of Madrid want to highlight the fundamental role of Telecommunication Engineering in healthcare, a sector that represents almost 7.5% of the GDP, and that is currently so unusual for this collective. We are facing a new evolution, in which telecos will increasingly play a fundamental role in the healthcare sector not only in Spain but globally.
“Without Telecommunications Engineers, the healthcare sector would have collapsed.” This is the conclusion that has been reached at the meeting on ‘The role of the Telecommunications Engineer in healthcare’, organized by the Spanish Association of Telecommunications Engineers in Madrid, to analyze the current situation and the evolution of healthcare, not only in Spain but internationally.
At this meeting, the need to establish a framework for continuous innovation, multidisciplinary collaboration, and professional development of engineers and their ability to design, implement and maintain the necessary technological infrastructure for their development was discussed, which puts the collective in a privileged position to play a key and structuring role.
According to Verónica Verdugo, Modality Manager of Cardiology PCS at GE Healthcare, one of the leading medical equipment companies in the world and associate professor at the Rey Juan Carlos University in Madrid, “from the industry, the professional profiles that include not only biomedical engineers, but also telecommunications engineers and computer scientists. Currently, hospitals already have new job positions occupied by engineers, not only in the electromedicine departments, but also supporting specific clinical departments”.
On the other hand, José Carlos Fernández de Aldecoa, former president of the Spanish Society of Electromedicine and Clinical Engineering and former technical director of the University Hospital of the Canary Islands and former president of the Spanish Society of Electromedicine and Clinical Engineering, pointed out that “Telecommunications Engineers play a very important role, and very little known by the general public, in various According to Enrique Gómez, president of the Spanish Society of Biomedical Engineering and professor at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, the “important challenges of healthcare and the current need for medical technologies, as well as the digital transformation of healthcare to face these new challenges”. The challenges and difficulties of incorporating these professionals into the healthcare world have also been analyzed during the day. “Even in this field of healthcare, the telecommunications engineer plays a fundamental role and many colleagues are adding great value to the sector and society in all its areas; for this reason, it is essential that the attitude itself is one of learning, we need to have constant learning, and also train in these subjects”, highlights the president of AEIT-Madrid, Inmaculada Sánchez Ramos. On the other hand, Victoria Ramos, secretary of the Board of Directors of AEIT-Madrid, has emphasized that this meeting has served to delve into this discipline applied to medicine and health, “healthcare is a human concern that has incorporated existing scientific and technological advances at each moment. For this reason, the idea and vision of the current situation and future evolution of technology are fundamental for health. Managing information, managing data from its origin to its end, analyzing hospital infrastructures, their equipment, connections, and coverage, will be essential to ensure quality healthcare for all”.