ACIS is a Galician public entity created with the vocation of becoming the nucleating element of the ecosystem of knowledge and innovation in health in Galicia. The advance of knowledge is increasingly rapid, so it is essential to have the necessary resources to manage it in an autonomous, agile, and efficient way, results-oriented, and with a vision capable of combining immediate needs with medium and long-term planning. ACIS is the instrument at the service of the Galician Public Health System to ensure that knowledge flows optimally from its origin to its transfer to society. To achieve this, it integrates into the same value chain:
- The training of health professionals.
- Health research.
- Innovation under an open approach so that the results reach from the laboratory to the patient’s bedside and also to the market, with economic returns that will revert to public health.
- Technology assessment to ensure the application of the latest technologies under maximum safety criteria.
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ACIS‘ competencies cover the different stages of the knowledge value chain: knowledge generation in healthcare centers, coordinating and planning research; the dissemination of the knowledge that our professional’s treasure, through innovative training; the analysis and synthesis of knowledge in healthcare technologies, through its rigorous evaluation, the transfer of knowledge within the healthcare ecosystem and towards society, through innovation and the integrated management of these stages, based on collaboration, participation, and innovative vision, favors the circulation of knowledge.