Two Teams Composed of Students from Electronic Engineering, Telecommunications, Medicine, Mathematics, and Systems Engineering Advance to the Final in the Datos a la U Competition

With the project titled “Interoperability of Electronic Medical Records via Blockchain,” Unicauca students Andrea Isaza López and Jefferson Danilo Noguera, both from the Embedded Systems Research Group (SISE) in Electronic Engineering, along with Medicine student Alejandra Guzmán Troya, have advanced to the finals of the Datos a la U competition. This initiative, organized by the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology, targets the academic community across Colombia, promoting the use of open data to create innovative solutions for national issues.

The three University of Cauca students will represent southwestern Colombia in the competition's final event, scheduled for Friday, November 22, in Bogotá. The project is mentored by three professors from the Department of Telematics at the University of Cauca. This initiative aims to improve the management of medical records in healthcare institutions (IPS) and has already received favorable evaluations that demonstrate its innovative potential.

This technological solution enables clinics and hospitals to verify in real time their capacity to treat a patient based on the required level of care, specialty, and EPS (Health Promotion Entity) coverage. By leveraging open data, a more precise analysis can be made, optimizing the assignment of care levels and facilitating patient transfers between health institutions.

Similarly, the project titled “Spatiotemporal Analysis of Crime Dynamics in Colombian Territory,” led by Mathematics students Jaison Alexander Muñoz Hormiga and Yersson Esteban Montenegro, along with Systems Engineering student Julián David Meneses, will also represent the southwestern region in the Datos a la U final.

The project, mentored by Professor Henry Laniado from the Department of Mathematics at the University of Cauca, applies statistical interpolation methodologies to understand the spatial evolution of a particular crime over time. Using non-parametric techniques, it predicts the number of crimes in the medium term by estimating the crime rate in previously unobserved spatial locations.

This tool will be useful for local, departmental, and security administrations to develop strategies for anticipation and prevention. In the medium term, these administrations could have greater precision in identifying the territorial areas that require intervention, thus optimizing resources with the aim of improving citizen security indicators and enhancing the public's sense of safety.

About Datos a la U

Datos a la U aims to promote advanced analysis of open data and the creation of innovative products, such as interactive visualizations, infographics, applications, predictive models, and more.

Participants are required to use the data available on www.datos.gov.co, a platform that offers public information from various entities, to design solutions addressing key issues such as health, security, transportation, social inclusion, and sustainable development.

For the results of the competition, visit:

https://www.datos.gov.co/stories/s/ehij-b5mp

 

Written by: Communications Management Center.