The Community of Madrid has financed a Project that improves precision in the placement of implants in column surgeries Vertebral, in addition to reducing the time of interventions and preoperative. This aid has been granted within the framework of the financing line that the Ministry of Digitalization of the Community of Madrid began in September 2024 to facilitate SMEs the introduction of AI in its production processes.
In this case, the startup Digital Anatomicswho works from the Carlos III University Technology Park in Leganés, is the one that is responsible for implementing this solution through a software with AI, which are already using seven public hospitals in the region: October 12, San Carlos Clinic, Jiménez Díaz Foundation, Infanta Sofía, Infanta Elena, La Paz and Gregorio Marañón. This year 15 interventions have already been carried out in the region with this technology.
The tool allows you to plan previously, and precisely, the operation of patients with different back ailments. For this, the updates that will be carried out in the surgery are defined by computer, always validated by the doctor.
Thus, for example, in the case of a person who is going to be operated on scoliosis, an exact digital design of his column is made and the intervention he needs. Next, this design moves to a biomodel manufactured through 3D printing. Thanks to this, the specialist will have the necessary information to safely perform high -risk actions, such as the placement of vertebrae screws.
Artificial intelligence allows automating parts of this process that until now were done by hand, which affects an important improvement in health care. In this way, in addition, the preoperative ones have been reduced, which have gone between two and three weeks to a few days. You can also shorten operations in the operating room for up to an hour.
The system promoted by the Community of Madrid has also resulted in a prevention of the risk of infections and bleeding by the patients, since the operations they suffer end before. In addition, it has been verified that, in the face of the evidence with traditional methods, which varies between 20%and 40%, this solution allows implants with a accuracy fenced to 99%.
This project is one of fifty projects based on AI that has already financed the Community of Madrid, with a global investment of 5.8 million euros, co -financed with European funds. He Digitalization Minister of the Community of Madrid, Miguel López-Valverdestressed that this line of subsidies is fundamental «since it is allowing to promote puncture solutions to improve not only the industry and competitiveness of Madrid companies, but also the health and life of people. Madrid is not only a pole of attraction for technological talent, but also a place where innovation is put at the service of health and quality of life of people«.
