The Spanish Society for Technological Transformation (SETT), attached to the Ministry for Digital Transformation and Civil Service, has announced an investment of €650,000 in the Spanish company Clinicgram, which specializes in digital health, specifically in the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of chronic wounds, including diabetic foot. With this contribution, the Government of Spain continues to support the deployment of advanced technologies and digitalization in the healthcare sector to improve its efficiency.
The operation, carried out in a public-private partnership with a capital increase totaling €1.65 million, aims to boost the healthcare software platform Clinicgram, which applies Artificial Intelligence (advanced visible and thermal image analysis with AI) for the prevention and management of chronic wounds.
Clinicgram, owned by Skilled Skin, a company founded in 2019 in Barcelona, is a medical device that supports healthcare professionals in the evaluation and monitoring of chronic wounds through images captured with a mobile phone.
In facilities where it has already been implemented, Clinicgram helps improve care efficiency and reduce healthcare costs by standardizing clinical management, reducing the time spent on assessment and documentation during consultations, and enabling more objective monitoring of wound progression. All of this facilitates earlier and more precise treatment adjustments, with the goal of accelerating recovery and improving patients’ quality of life.
In the research field, Clinicgram incorporates thermographic imaging through a small attachable camera to support routine diabetic foot screening, risk stratification, and the early detection of preventable complications. This capability could transform diabetes care and help reduce one of its most serious and costly complications: up to 85% of amputations related to diabetic foot are considered potentially preventable.
This development takes place in a context in which more than 6,000 diabetes-related amputations are performed annually in Spain, and where five-year mortality after an amputation can range between 30% and 70%.
Skilled Skin estimates that the cost associated with managing chronic wounds in Spain exceeds €1.2 billion annually. In large-scale deployment scenarios, Clinicgram could help generate savings of over 20% through clinical standardization, optimized follow-up, and reduced care inefficiencies.
SETT is carrying out this operation through the Next Tech facility, using funds from the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (Next Generation EU funds), whose objective is to promote financing for startups and scale-ups in the deep tech sector. In addition, SETT manages two other facilities to strengthen the technological business ecosystem: PERTE Chip, dedicated to microelectronics and semiconductors, and Spain Audiovisual Hub, which promotes the digitalization of the audiovisual sector.
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