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Denodo equips us to maintain stricter monitoring of patients admitted to the hospital's critical care units through real-time score calculations, allowing us to proactively identify complex clinical situations.

Dr. Francesc García Cuyàs

Director of Digital Strategy and Data (CDDO)

 





 


### Healing with Data: How SJD Barcelona Children’s Hospital is Transforming Pediatric Care


### Why Denodo

Denodo provided SJD the unified data foundation needed to modernize care delivery, enable AI-driven decision-making, and accelerate research – without disrupting existing systems.

- Risk scores now updated every 30 seconds, replacing 8–12 hour manual intervals across the critical care units
- AI-driven analytics provide live scores for sepsis, bronchiolitis, and clinical decompensation
- Governed, OMOP- and FHIR-compatible data model enables real-time access for care teams and accelerates research collaboration
- Robust governance and security ensure trusted, compliant access to sensitive and anonymized data – protecting personal patient information at all times


### Overview

SJD Barcelona Children’s Hospital, one of Europe’s leading maternal and child hospitals, is transforming pediatric care through its “liquid hospital” vision – delivering care that keeps children comfortable at home whenever possible, while real-time data from bedside and remote sources is securely transmitted to, monitored, and governed by the hospital. Powered by the Denodo Platform and AWS, clinicians make faster, data-driven decisions to improve pediatric outcomes.

### Challenges

Manual processes and disconnected systems limited SJD’s ability to deliver timely care. Vital signs were analyzed only every 8–12 hours, risk scores were calculated in Excel, and critical data like genomics and real-time monitoring weren’t integrated.

### Solution

SJD built a real-time data architecture using Denodo as the semantic layer and AWS as the cloud foundation. This enabled live clinical risk scoring, unified access to hospital systems, and secure data sharing for both care teams and researchers.

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![HSJD’s Clinical Command Center](/sites/default/files/inline-images/unnamed%20%286%29_0.jpg) *HSJD’s Clinical Command Center*

### Benefits

Risk scores now update every 30 seconds, empowering clinicians to act before deterioration occurs. The hospital enables governed, standards-based collaboration across teams – without duplicating data or compromising security.

Click [here](https://www.denodo.com/en/document/case-study/healing-data-how-sjd-barcelona-childrens-hospital-transforming-pediatric-care) to read the full case study.