A 25-Year Retrospective of Health IT Infrastructure Building: The Example of the Catalonia Region

Jordi Piera-Jiménez   ^{1, 2, 3} , MBA, PhD ;   Gerard Carot-Sans   ^{1, 2} , PhD ;   Marina Ramiro-Pareta   ² , PhD ;   Maria Mercedes Nogueras   ^{2, 4} , PhD ;   Júlia Folguera-Profitós   ^{1, 2} , MSc ;   Pepi Ródenas   ¹ , MSc ;   Alba Jiménez-Rueda   ² , BSc ;   Thais de Pando Navarro   ^{1, 2} , MSc ;   Josep Antoni Mira Palacios   ⁵ , BSc ;   Joan Carles Fajardo   ⁶ , BSc ;   Joan Ustrell Campillo   ⁵ , BSc ;   Emili Vela   ^{1, 2} , BSc ;   David Monterde   ^{2, 6} , BSc ;   Damià Valero-Bover   ^{1, 2} , MSc ;   Tara Bonet   ^{1, 2} , MSc ;   Guillermo Tarrasó-Urios   ^{1, 2} , PhD ;   Roser Cantenys-Sabà   ^{1, 2} , MSc ;   Pau Fabregat-Fabregat   ^{1, 2} , BSc ;   Beatriz Gómez Oliveros   ² , MSc ;   Jesús Berdún   ⁷ , MSc ;   Xabier Michelena   ^{2, 8} , MD, PhD ;   Isaac Cano   ^{9, 10, 11} , PhD ;   Rubèn González-Colom   ^{9, 10} , PhD ;   Josep Roca   ^{9, 10, 11} , MD, PhD ;   Oscar Solans   ⁶ , MD ;   Caridad Pontes   ^{2, 7, 12} , MD, PhD ;   Pol Pérez-Sust   ^{1, 13} , MSc

¹ Catalan Health Service, Barcelona, Spain

² Digitalization for the Sustainability of the Healthcare System (DS3) research group, Barcelona, Spain

³ Faculty of Informatics, Multimedia and Telecommunications, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

⁴ Agency of Health Quality and Assessment of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain

⁵ Center for Telecommunications and Information Technologies, Barcelona, Spain

⁶ Catalan Institute of Health, Barcelona, Spain

⁷ Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain

⁸ Rheumatology Unit, Vall d'Hebron Hospital Universitari, Vall d'Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus, Barcelona, Spain

⁹ Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

¹⁰ Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi I Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain

¹¹ Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

¹² Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

¹³ Catalan Department of Health, Barcelona, Spain