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The Spanish Society of Family and Community Medicine and the Murcian Society of Family and Community Medicine have signed an agreement with the University of Murcia to develop the project 'Informapacientes', a metasearch of free web pages on health topics in Spanish.
The main objective of the agreement is to offer a quality tool that allows patients to access valid, simple and useful information about their health problems.
They have signed the agreement José Luján, rector of the University of Murcia;
Salvador Tranche Iparraguirre, president of the Spanish Society of Family and Community Medicine;
and María Bernardina Tudela de Gea, president of the Murcian Family and Community Society.
Miguel García Salom, Vice Dean of Medicine and Innovation of the Faculty of Medicine and one of the promoters of this initiative, explained that this project arises to respond to the patient's empowerment and their need to want to know more, something that leads to the search for information sources.
These sources are multiplied thanks to the Internet but, in many cases, they offer untested, unreliable information that responds to commercial interests.
The vice-dean has expressed that 'Informapacientes' is a "computer tool that will improve the relationship with the patient" by offering understandable and accessible sources, without detracting from its reliability.
One of the criteria for indexing the information will be that the sources do not include advertising.
The agreement incorporates actions that will focus on several aspects.
First, the diffusion of the search engine ensuring the continuous improvement and updating of the tool.
The UMU will contribute through the teachers and researchers of the area of ​​Family Medicine in the tasks of updating the medical contents.
In addition, computer services will be responsible for the tasks of support, maintenance and updating.
On the other hand, the UMU will promote the use of the search engine in the teaching activity, especially as a source for the development of academic work by the students.
In his speech, Salvador Tranche Iparraguirre, president of the Spanish Society of Family and Community Medicine, has expressed the importance of there being instruments like this "extraordinarily useful in the consultation", since it will offer "objective and clean" information in a context in which the one that "many patients consult Doctor Google before coming".
Finally, José Luján said that "this firm is the beginning of relationships that have to continue to narrow in the future to value family and community medicine as a university discipline".
Source: Universidad de Murcia
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