Health care is, after the pandemic, one of the main concerns of Spaniards. This fact is also reflected in the business world, which increasingly finds the care of its employees strategic for its corporate objectives, especially that of its senior managers and executives.
This trend is directly related to other of the most common axioms in the world of health, such as prevention, since an early diagnosis almost exponentially multiplies the chances of cure and makes a large number of diseases have a favorable prognosis. Oncological processes or cardiovascular problems are two good examples of this reality.
It is at this point where one of the prevention tools emerges, which allow exhaustive health surveillance and the detection of many pathologies, such as carrying out a periodic medical check-up as a preventive weapon. In this sense, the HM Hospitales Group has, thanks to its Personalized Early Prevention Unitthe program called ‘HM Checkups’, which is aimed at promoting early detection and is especially aimed at executives and companies.
In addition, there is the circumstance that this service has recently expanded its available centers to carry them out in Madrid, Catalonia and Galicia. Specifically in university hospitals HM Sanchinarro (Madrid), HM Montepríncipe (Boadilla del Monte), HM Puerta del Sur (Móstoles), HM Nou Delfos Hospital (Barcelona), HM Rosaleda Hospital (Santiago de Compostela) and HM Modelo (A Coruña) where the interested party has at his disposal the latest health technology, as well as genetic tests and a wide range of diagnostic tests with the aim of verifying the state of health and anticipating the disease as much as possible.
The new service extends to all these centers from the Personalized Early Prevention Unit at the HM Sanchinarro University Hospital, which has exceeded the figure of 6,000 check-ups since its launch.
According to the Doctor Santiago Ruiz de Aguiar, territorial director of HM Hospitales in Madrid, the experience with this unit “has allowed us to learn and improve our internal operating processes, for which reason it has been decided to extend this initiative to the rest of the hospitals.” In fact, so far in 2022 some 300 executives from large companies have chosen to contract this service that uses the latest diagnostic technology, materialized in a complex range of tests that are carried out in one day, to obtain in a short space of time Detailed information on the health status of the interested party.
Personalized and with the latest technology
Another consideration to take into account resides in the fact that the HM Checkups program is completely personalized, offering coverage of diagnostic tests based on the sex and age of the applicant, with the sole objective of covering the largest number of pathologies, with special focus on the most prevalent diseases in each case. «ECheck-ups are available for children and adolescents, and aimed at the early detection of cardiovascular problems, and for people over 65 years of age and over focused on the early detection of tumor pathologiesgeneral vascular evaluation (cerebral, cardiac and peripheral vascular disease) and neurodegenerative diseases”, explains Dr. Ruiz de Aguiar.
The different modalities offered in HM Checkups can include blood and urine tests, imaging tests (ultrasound, CT, mammography in women), cardiology assessment tests, digestive system tests (endoscopy), calcium scans, vascular status, colonoscopy, abdominal ultrasound, audiometry, ophthalmological and otorhinolaryngology tests, and gynecological or urological tests depending on the gender of the user.
To achieve this, HM Hospitales has assigned a complete multidisciplinary team of health professionals made up of experts in Internal Medicine, Diagnostic Imaging, Cardiology, Oncology, Ophthalmology, Otolaryngology, Gynecology and Urology.
Dr. Niko Mihic, director of the Personalized Early Prevention Unit, points out that, “the check-ups are aimed at evaluating the state of health and preventing some pathologies associated with the type of work, sex, age, lifestyle and personal medical history and familiar. It is essential to take time with each of the patients and send them a prior questionnaire to find out in advance what their risk factors are, family history, symptoms of any current pathology if it exists. Therefore, the objective is clear: to delve into prevention through carrying out the most appropriate diagnostic tests depending on each person who wishes to undergo a check-up.
Genetics as novelty
Advances in scientific research in the field of genetics have also led to optionally evaluating this field in HM Checkups. This allows, according to Dr. Mihic, “thave an overview of current and future processes that may involve an individualized genetic predisposition. A good example is colonoscopy after the age of 50, since if there is a family history, progress can be made in the detection of colorectal cancer.
The speed both when carrying out the check-up and in obtaining the results are other advantages of Checkups HM since all the tests are carried out on the same day and the results of the same are obtained in a week. “The only exception, and which will require an individualized assessment, resides in the event that our patient is requested to undergo a genetic test that will require a subsequent consultation aimed at explaining the results and the clinical significance of the findings,” he indicates. Dr. Ruiz de Aguiar.
Another of the characteristics that HM Checkups has is that the entire process is carried out with the guarantee and security that only a hospital environment offers, and that they also have the HMCare figure, an administrative figure that coordinates the entire administrative part of the process and that provides the user with all the necessary information. «Provide the patient with guidance by which the user is accompanied throughout the check-up process, attending to their needs and offering exclusive personalized attention. In addition, an exclusive communication channel has been created for HM Checkups, which has its own direct telephone number, a specific website and qualified personnel exclusively for the unit”, says Dr. Ruiz de Aguiar.
More information at: somostusalud.hmhospitales.com/Chequeos-Medicos/