At the intersection of digital & safety

Foundation for the Innovation and Development of Health Safety

About us

The Foundation for Innovation and Development of Health Safety (FIDHS) was created in 2019 and its main objective is to raise awareness in society of the importance of safety and innovation in the health sector, generating spaces for debate and discussion.

Thanks to our core values, safety and innovation, we aim to improve the field of drug production to eliminate pharmacological incompatibilities

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22-12-2020

Cancer, the 21st Century Pandemic

In 2020, ten million people have died worldwide from cancer, a disease of which more than 200 types...

16-12-2020

How much is spent on health care in Europe?

If anything is clear during this health crisis that we are going through, it is that it is necessary...

10-12-2020

Covid vaccines, what are they and how many doses will the EU buy?

Recent announcements of a good response to SARS-Cov 2 vaccine candidates and the marketing authoriza...

03-12-2020

Gravitate-Health, the EU project to simplify drug information

As a result of the outbreak of the pandemic in our lives, interest in health information as a whole...

25-11-2020

WHO sets strategy to end cervical cancer

Cervical cancer, also known as cancer of the cervix, is caused by the human papillomavirus and is th...

19-11-2020

Europe lays the foundations to protect the health of its citizens

The coronavirus pandemic has been a global tsunami at all levels, and although the announcement of t...

12-11-2020

How to avoid adverse drug reactions

Virtually no drug on the market is free from causing any side effects in the patient, however, the r...

04-11-2020

Pandemic Impact on Mental Health

Since the World Health Organization issued the pandemic alert, more than one million people have die...

29-10-2020

Record-breaking pharmaceutical R&D investment

The pharmaceutical industry is one of the sectors in which investment in R&D is most needed. Eve...

23-10-2020

Recommendations for curbing cancer in Europe

Despite the fact that every day there are interesting and effective findings that have a positive in...

15-10-2020

Hospital pharmacist expenditure, under examination

In 2018, 6,613 million euros were spent on hospital pharmacy. This figure, which represents around 1...

07-10-2020

Artificial Intelligence's role in fighting Covid-19

For years countless investigations and advances have been made in the development of technology appl...

02-10-2020

Medication errors, third cause of death in Spain

According to a recent study conducted by SENSAR, Spanish System of Notification in Anesthesia Safety...

25-09-2020

“Pharmacists transforming global health”, the focus of the World Pharmacists Day

Today, September 25 it is celebrated the World Pharmacists Day, a celebration promoted by una conmem...

17-09-2020

September 17, World Patient Safety Day

The Covid-19 pandemic presents the greatest challenge to global health today and has triggered the g...

09-09-2020

CARE, the European initiative to promote research about Covid-19

The SARS-CoV-2 virus pandemic, referred to as Covid-19, has put the whole planet on defense. The imp...

02-09-2020

An X-ray of the European Pharmaceutical Industry

The unprecedented global crisis of the Covid-19 has propped up the strength of the pharmaceutical in...

26-08-2020

The European Apps for contact tracing

With the tentative implementation of a “new norm”, new waves of infection of Covid-19 ha...

18-08-2020

Close to 40,000 adverse reactions to medication reported in 2019

The Spanish Agency for Medicines and Health Products (AEMPS) has received last year a total of 37,77...

29-07-2020

The importance of identifying patients correctly

Although it may seem obvious, reality shows us that countless medical errors occur in the health sys...

21-07-2020

Patient safety, a global concern

Patient safety is a serious global public health problem. The risk of dying on an airplane trip is e...

15-07-2020

Consultation process to set strategies for european medicines agency (EMA) is open

A public consultation process is open until September 4th (through an online survey) to modify...

08-07-2020

A conjoint strategy to fight cancer

Despite the growing number of research projects aimed at preventing and curing cancer, the disease i...

01-07-2020

The most promising vaccines against the coronaviru

Since the declaration of the SARS – Cov 02 pandemic, that has caused millions of deaths all ar...

24-06-2020

Technology to fight the coronavirus

Artificial intelligence, big data, robotics and cybersecurity. The coronavirus crisis has challenged...

17-06-2020

UNICOM, the European Project to homogenize the indentification of medication

The coronavirus pandemic has made it clear the need to share Information, to collaborate on an inter...

10-06-2020

EU4Health Program: the European plan for the Healthcare reconstruction

The Covid-19 pandemic has created strong pressure over the Healthcare systems all around the world,...

03-06-2020

His is how the coronavirus testing looks like

Relaxation of the lockdown measures keeps advancing in Spain, and with it the return to working plac...

27-05-2020

Telehealth moves forward due to impact of Covid-19

With some astounding numbers of persons infected and deaths due to Covid-19 all around the world, th...

21-05-2020

Fake news, the other big pandemic

Despite not being as lethal as the disease itself, fake news have become another big pandemic spread...

14-05-2020

The medical errors that cause the most harm to patients

Patient safety is a discipline of the real of healthcare that has been created following the increas...

04-05-2020

The challenge of reinventing healthcare

The pandemic that has erupted from the Covid-19 spread has led to a deeper look at the healthcare se...

29-04-2020

The relevance of compliance to treatments during the coronavirus crisis

The “Strategies in addressing chronicity in the Spanish National Health System” (Estrate...

27-04-2020

The global impact of errors in medication

One of the main commitments of healthcare services is to cause no harm to every patient. Nevertheles...

19-04-2020

“Medication without harm" a global patient safety challenge of the who

The presently existing errors in prescription and administration of medicines is a problem that has...

12-04-2020

Spain falls behind the european average in healthcare spending

The Healthcare crisis deriving from the Covid19 spread has brought to everyone’s attention the...

05-04-2020

Medication errors lead to 8,000 annual deaths in Spain

The National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention (NCC MERP) define me...

29-03-2020

How to develop a vaccine?

The research to control the spread of the COVD-19 pandemic has provoked all around the world an unpr...

04-02-2020

Patient Safety Symposium Examines Digital Health Pitfalls and Promises

Digital Health is Proven to Reduce 100% of Medication Errors in Hospitals When Designed for Specific...

23-01-2020

Patient safety symposium: Challenges and opportunities for the improvement of health systems

Digital Health Luminaries & Physicians from the U.S., UK, & Spain to Convene in Boston BO...

02-01-2020

Digital world symposium at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

To build a Safer Health System via Digital Health The Foundation for the Innovation and Developme...

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