Zerintia HealthTech is a Spanish tech company specialized in Digital Health. The company works to foster the use of technology in medicine to make it easier for doctors to diagnose, care for and attend to their patients.
Interview with Joaquín Fernández de Piérola, President of Zerintia HealthTech.
A brief description of the company and its activities.
Joaquín Fernández de Piérola: At Zerintia HealthTech, we are committed to clinical collaboration by integrating human clinical knowledge and technology to assist medical professionals and institutions in real-time in healthcare delivery.
Zerintia HealthTech is a digital health company born from the extension of a technology company that has developed 4RemoteHealth, a solution for remote collaborative work between medical professionals in various clinical settings, promoting the digitalization of the healthcare sector. We have made possible the world’s first remote assisted surgery with 5G.
Our innovation enables access to health care experts for all people and communities regardless of their physical location.
What are the main areas of activity of the company?
J.F.P: Eliminate barriers of distance with bidirectional secure on real-time communication between healthcare professionals in different clinical spaces.
Through telepresence medical professionals participate in procedures remotely with all the information available. It enables real-time bidirectional communication for decision making. Furthermore, experienced professionals can support professionals with less expertise in real time at complex procedures.
Comprehensive approach with interdisciplinary collaboration facilitating access to different medical specialist to take medical decisions about patients.
Improving patient outcomes with the help of specialists and experts anytime, anywhere in the world.
Currently it is already being used for remote expert support, teleproctoring, live broadcasts, specialist consultation, teaching, etc in complex clinical spaces like operating rooms, ICUs, ambulances, specialized medical consultation and home care.
What’s the news about new products/services?
J.F.P: New developments improving user experience and integrating artificial intelligence to obtain data insights and guide in clinical procedures.
What are the ranges of products/services?
J.F.P: The 4RemoteHealth is a software platform commercialised as a service, enabler of telemedicine services in surgery, ICU, Emergencies and ambulances, specialized medical consultation, diagnosis, home care and clinical education.
What is the state of the market where you are currently active?
J.F.P: Digital Health market worldwide is expected to reach a projected revenue of US$193.70bn by 2024 with annual growth rate (CAGR 2024-2028) of 9.16%. Digital tools are expected to mitigate and address the issues and challenges to delivering quality healthcare. Digital health direct impact on healthcare system sustainability due to an increase demand of care services due to an increment of aging population and lack of healthcare professionals.
What can you tell us about market trends?
J.F.P: There is a great interest from the hospital sector and medical device manufacturers in having software solutions that allows the integration of signals (from equipment, images, video, voice and data) using augmented reality, and that can also be easily deployed Over-the-Top of clinical systems, allowing the unification of the clinical user experience by professionals so that they can work collaboratively in real time, as well as avoiding additional expense or investment by public or private health entities since they can take advantage of the existing infrastructure.
What are the most innovative products/services marketed?
J.F.P: At Zerintia HealthTech we have a one security technology agnostic to hardware for different clinical spaces that allows bidirectional communication integrating augmented reality and advanced technology for high quality video transmission, it ensures uninterrupted guidance supervision and accompaniment.
What estimations do you have for 2024?
J.F.P: Revenues from subscriptions will multiply almost by three times in 2024 from previous year mainly from hospitals, private groups and distributors in Spain.