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Updated Friday, March 3, 2023-14:28

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Today, a doctor can tell if a person is developing Alzheimer's just by looking at the way they drive their car.

“When your brain functions start to change, your driving style changes.

Change your reaction speed, the speed at which you drive, change the acceleration, change the turns.

And that is information that we already have in the vehicle's GPS”, explains Juan José Beunza.

And he adds: "In the next two, three or four years, this type of tool will reach medicine massively, it will be a tsunami."

Beunza may have been an agronomist, historian, or philosopher, but he became a doctor because he "preferred to deal with people."

However, after five intense years as medical director of a hospital in Uganda and a journey as an epidemiological researcher at Harvard University, this professor at the European University of Madrid for a decade now has ended up being a specialist in Artificial Intelligence, especially applied to health.

"This is a precious moment for health careers, and for medicine in particular, because we can be the leaders of that transformation," he insists.

Not surprisingly, Beunza warns that medicine is entering "a new world", characterized by four pillars: the patient as the center instead of the doctor, the relocation of that patient, the creation of diagnoses prior to the appearance of the problem thanks to information and predictive models, and the development of data-based medicine.

"Handling this data in real time is going to change the practice of medicine," he predicts.

Juan José Beunza, professor at the European University of Madrid and specialist in Artificial Intelligence applied to health.

"Today it is essential to provide a differential value", analyzes Beunza, who asserts that it is necessary to "break that abyss" to be able to implement innovation in medicine.

For now, the faculty and students of the European University of Madrid seem determined to achieve it: under the tutelage of their teachers,

biomedical engineering students have already patented a device for the ICU that measures the diuresis of patients in real time,

minute to minute.

It costs only 20 euros.

"With this device we can predict who is going to have kidney failure in the immediate future, in hours or days," says Beunza.

This professor is one of the many faces that appear in the project Buscando Vocaciones of the European University.

Protagonists who shape the future from the present

and serve as an inspiration for all those who want to decide, reorient or improve their professional career.

First-person testimonials about life itineraries but also training, voyages that serve as an example because they connect passions with professions.

Important names in Medicine, such as Rafael Bengoa, have explained in Buscando Vocations the

importance of a vocation in the field of Medicine

.

Joan Carles March stressed the need for public policy planning to arrive at a new health model.

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