On June 11, Topazium presented at Madrid Innovation Lab (MIL; https://milmadrid.es/) its project HealthGuard, winner of the challenge “Mechanisms for Predicting and Controlling Chronic Diseases” at the 2023 AI and Advanced Technologies Awards.
After a few words of welcome, Patricia Sarasola, Head of the Innovation Department of the Madrid City Council, emphasized the accessibility of HealthGuard. “With data collected by a simple smartwatch-type device that measures physiological constants, personalized recommendations can be obtained for a type of diet that helps prevent diseases, not just to live longer, but to live better,” highlighted Sarasola.
As explained by Topazium’s founder and CEO, Carlos Galmarini, their goal is to help people take care of their health before they get sick, to preserve it because “we live longer, but we want to live better. Health,” he explained, “not only depends on physical parameters but also on psychological and social factors… Broadly speaking, the four basic elements to preserve health are physical activity, sleep, stress, and nutrition.” HealthGuard is an AI platform that uses data provided by sensor devices like smartwatches or similar wearables to analyze them, detect deviations from each individual’s healthy ranges (such as increased heart rate, lack of exercise, or poor sleep this week), and accordingly offer personalized nutritional suggestions to correct them (these foods will help you sleep better, this supplement will help you control your cholesterol levels…), in addition to providing varied recipes that include these necessary foods.
Topazium is also focused on the early detection of diseases. They have developed an integral AI engine that uses different types of data related to genetic and clinical information to identify disease patterns and the most effective therapeutic approaches. These tools are mainly aimed at primary care professionals or rural medicine to help them make an early diagnosis of, for example, cirrhosis, or skin cancer, or detect abnormal radiological signs.
Once Galmarini finished the presentation, he invited those present to attend a demonstration of the operation of both HealthGuard and the diagnostic tools to better understand their functionality, raise any questions that may arise, and understand better how they can be applied in the daily work of medical and biomedical professionals.
You can relive the event in the following video on MIL’s YouTube channel: https://milmadrid.es/topazium-vivimos-mas-pero-queremos-vivir-mejor/
