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IMQ and MONDRAGON Health sign an agreement to promote research into the field of health and health services
The IMQ Group and MONDRAGON Health have signed a collaboration agreement to promote R&R&i in the fields of science and technology applicable to the health sector, by means of carrying out research projects and innovation programmes in processes and services.
The agreement, which will last for one year, also contemplates collaboration in the training field between the IMQ Group and the University of Mondragon.
The agreement was signed today Thursday at the headquarters of IMQ in Bilbao by the Managing Director of IMQ, Jose Andrés Gorricho, and the MONDRAGON Corporation’s Vice-president for Innovation, Promotion and Knowledge, Javier Sotil.
Areas of development
The agreement establishes the general areas of collaboration and will start with a number of already decided projects.
It will be MONDRAGON’s companies and researchers and the consultants and managers of IMQ and its services, who will prioritise new areas for possible developments in the future.Initially these areas will be Hospital Logistics, Automated systems for storing and dispensing medicines in hospital pharmacies and Telemonitoring of chronic patients.
About IMQ. Igualatorio Médico Quirúrgico is a business Group made up of one division focusing on health insurance, IMQ Seguros, and a second providing health and medical services, IMQ Servicios, in relation to health, wellbeing and senior citizens. The absolute leader in the Basque Country, IMQ Seguros is the seventh biggest health insurance firm in Spain and currently has more than 315,000 policy holders and IMQ Servicios has more than twenty companies engaged in medical, public health and welfare attention.
About MONDRAGON Health. MONDRAGON Health is the MONDRAGON Corporation’s platform for promoting new business developments in products and services for the health sector. Its strategy focuses on developing areas like public health attention, eHealth, automation of hospital processes, health care logistics and global project development in the sector.