Argentina initiated a project to endorse, under a regulatory framework, the use of virtual digital health applications; in order to protect the safety and efficacy of medical treatment suggested under the name of public health institutions.
The The Federation of Collegiate Medical Entities (CONFEMECO), was in favor of regulating under a legal framework the use of telemedicine within digital health in order to safeguard the face-to-face exercise of medical consultation and, to protect the fees of professionals.
Strictly it was considered that the uses of new ICTs should act as a support for improving the experience and not as a replacement, since face-to-face feedback between doctor-patient is deeper and enlightening.
To work on this situation, CONFEMECO, has developed an initiative with which it seeks to control virtual practices in the public health system and to ensure that activities such as mobile consultations via WhatsApp, are under an official provision when registering to a national system that verifies its functionality, its contribution and its validity.
The project obliges any digital application that serves to provide consultations, treatments or any type of medical care to register with the National Secretariat of Health to practice as a methodology of advice, consultation, care, assistance, opinion, diagnosis and any other activity that involves health care within institutions and hospitals.
With this, each process will be administered by registrations and electronic signatures thus providing the patient with a consensual certification by the National Health System and can be included in its Electronic Health Record.
The fundamental purpose is to ensure the safety of results by leaving them free from any possible counterfeiting by supporting the medical community and exponentially fusing all new technologies with the exercise of health.
