Veterinary Role in Global One Health and HM Hospitales' Awarded Robotic Tele-surgery Highlight Advances in Health Innovation
Recent events in Spain highlight the critical veterinary role in One Health and award-winning robotic tele-surgery advancing digital healthcare.
- • Colegio de Veterinarios de Bizkaia organized Jornada Una Sola Salud focusing on integrated human, animal, and environmental health.
- • Veterinarians are vital in zoonotic disease prevention, food safety, animal welfare, antimicrobial resistance, and ecosystem protection.
- • HM Hospitales received Ennova Health 2025 award for its innovative robotic tele-surgery enabling remote EU surgeries.
- • The robotic project enhances safety, precision, connectivity, and fosters new healthcare cooperation and training models.
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The Colegio de Veterinarios de Bizkaia recently hosted the first Jornada Una Sola Salud event, emphasizing the essential role veterinarians play within the One Health framework integrating human, animal, and environmental health. Experts underscored veterinarians' contribution to preventing zoonotic diseases—which comprise over 60% of emerging illnesses—ensuring food safety, promoting animal welfare, combating antimicrobial resistance, and protecting ecosystems. Álvaro Mateos, president of the Colegio, stressed that promoting an evidence-based, integrated vision of health is a necessity for society.
Concurrently, HM Hospitales was honored with the Ennova Health 2025 award for its pioneering robotic tele-surgery project. Recognized in the Telesalud and E-learning category, this innovation enabled the first remote surgical interventions between two EU countries, enhancing safety, precision, and connectivity in medical care. The project also fostered new cooperative care models and surgical e-learning training, reducing critical response times. The award ceremony, held on November 19 at Madrid's Real Teatro de Retiro, celebrated HM Hospitales among other leading health innovation agents.
Together, these developments reflect Spain's commitment to integrating advanced digital technologies and multidisciplinary approaches in healthcare. The veterinary profession's vital involvement in One Health complements cutting-edge digital solutions like remote robotic surgery, collectively advancing patient care and global health strategies.
This article was synthesized and translated from native language sources to provide English-speaking readers with local perspectives.