On August 4, 2020, an online meeting was held between the teams of the IMAGO-MOL cluster and the Health Medellin City Cluster to discuss the possibilities of collaboration between the 2 entities, an event facilitated by the North-East Regional Development Agency in the context of a project collaboration in the field of internationalization of clusters with representatives of the Aburra Valley Region.

The representatives of the IMAGO-MOL Cluster presented the structure, history, objectives and current concerns of the IMAGO-MOL Cluster, and the partners of the Cluster from Medellin also made a presentation of their own ecosystem.

Cluster Medellín Health City aims to promote integration processes and business relationships, based on a patient-centered model that responds to the challenges and opportunities of the medical industry, with a focus on excellent clinical services, digital transformation of the health industry and development of products based on technology and added value of knowledge and innovation.

Cluster Medellín Health City aims to promote integration processes and business relationships, based on a patient-centered model that responds to the challenges and opportunities of the medical industry, with a focus on excellent clinical services, digital transformation of the health industry and development of products based on technology and added value of knowledge and innovation.

The working model of the Medellín Health City cluster integrates ICT as an information interconnection tool that helps to promote and develop management based on the following strategic lines:

  • Medical services: provision of health services, international patient care, personalized medicine, nanomedicine, predictive health: insurance, prevention and promotion, diagnostics (new diagnostic technologies, big data, health monitoring)
  • Continuing health (home health services): telemedicine and medical devices for monitoring patient conditions, consumer health products, pharmaceuticals, advanced nutrition
  • Medical devices.

During the meeting, the steps of the intercluster collaboration agenda from the next period were established.