The Círculo Ecuestre received a this Tuesday Luis Badrinas and Eva Rosell, the CEO and the General Director of Barcelona Health Hub (BHH). The talk took place within the framework of the Member Tribune cycle of the Barcelona institution.
After the welcome from Antonio Delgado, President of the Círculo Ecuestre, and the presentation of Tirso Gracia, member of the governing board of the Círculo Ecuestre, the speakers held a dialogue with Helena Torras, Managing Partner of PaoCapital, Venture Partner of Romulus, supporting Partner of Calm/Storm VC, in which they spoke about the future of the innovation center technology in the field of health.
The top managers of the world reference center in digital health established in Catalonia defined their objective as:
the channel for startups to enter hospitals in order to improve the sector of the health and life of patients
The project, which settled in 2018 at the Sant Pau Modernist Site, it has become the “largest digital health innovation hub in Europe”, being one of the most The only ones in the world that have opted for verticalization. The speakers attributed the good result to “an ecosystem of 400 organizations and the 500 people participating in the project”.
During the colloquium, Badrinas and Rosell placed special emphasis on in “the need for technology to be clinically validated by doctors, to be democratized and to serve sustainability and inclusiveness for the benefit of patients”. Therefore, they explained the benefits of streamlining the processes proposed by Barcelona Health Hub.
At the end of the talk, the speakers revealed the intention of internationalizing the project, with Malaga and Madrid as the main cities in which to disembark. They explained that the colloquium of the mayor of Malaga that hosted the Círculo Ecuestre served as the first contact to create a Malaga Health Hub.
Faced with the possibility of turning the center into a business, the representatives of the hub made it clear that this “will continue to be a business. being a non-profit association that has no intention of becoming a business.”