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Research projects by Unicauca students represent the Colombian Southwest in a cal...

Research projects by Unicauca students represent the Colombian Southwest in a call by the Ministry of Information and Communication Technologies

Two teams, composed of students from Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering, Medicine, Mathematics, and Systems Engineering, have advanced to the finals in the “Datos a la U” competition.

With the project titled “Interoperability of Electronic Health Records through Blockchain,” Electronic Engineering students Andrea Isaza López and Jefferson Danilo Noguera, members of the Embedded Systems Research Group (SISE), together with Medical student Alejandra Guzmán Troya, have advanced to the finals of the Datos a la U competition, an initiative of the Ministry of Information and Communication Technologies aimed at the country’s academic community, seeking to promote the use of open data to create innovative solutions to national challenges.

The three students from the University of Cauca will represent southwestern Colombia in the event’s final round, which will take place next Friday, November 22, in Bogotá. The project is supported by three professors from the Department of Telematics at the University of Cauca. This initiative seeks to improve the management processes of medical records in healthcare service providers (IPS) and has already undergone positive evaluations demonstrating its innovative potential.

With this technological solution, clinics or hospitals will be able to verify in real time whether they have the capacity to attend to a patient according to their level of care, medical specialty, and insurance coverage (EPS). By leveraging open data, the system enables more accurate analysis, optimizes the assignment of care levels, and facilitates transfers between healthcare institutions.

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

The project, supported and advised by Professor Henry Laniado from the Department of Mathematics at the University of Cauca, implements statistical interpolation methodologies to understand the spatial evolution over time of a particular crime. Then, using non-parametric techniques and fixing an unobserved spatial point, it becomes possible to forecast the number of crimes in the medium term.

This tool will be useful for local, departmental, and security administrations to design strategies for anticipation and prevention. In the medium term, these administrations could achieve greater accuracy in identifying territorial areas that require intervention, thereby optimizing resources with the aim of improving citizen security indicators and strengthening the population’s perception of safety.

About “Datos a la U”

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

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

Information about the results of the competition can be found at:

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