The Spanish Council of Ministers has approved an allocation of 230 million euros to develop the Digital Health Strategy as one of the proposals of the current Government aims to promote the digital transformation of health services . This amount will be distributed between 2022 and 2023 among the autonomous communities applying three criteria: 10% will be a fixed amount for each of the territories; 84% based on population criteria; and the remaining 6% will go to those regions that are committed to leading projects collaboratively.
“This is a good document that describes policies and strategies that could effectively help the correct development of digitization in Spain. However, a significant investment of resources and adequate management of change is needed to see this transformation come true”, says Ismael Said Criado, coordinator the working subgroup on adoption of new technologies at the Spanish Society of Internal Medicine (SEMI), “we hope for in the future is the development of true clinical decision support tools based on AI, which take advantage of the data generated by clinical activity to simplify the work of the health professional”.