O'Higgins and Maule Health Services discussed issues focused on improving cancer-fighting treatments and detecting them to prevent the number of deaths in the country from increasing. The topics of teleradiology and other digital systems in the field of health were addressed.
Chile is worrying about increasing the level of health in its population by developing new options to fight cancer with alternative tools that can be managed digitally.
The Assistance Network Management Division (DIGERA), of the Ministry of Health (MINSAL), collaborates with the different Health Services that correspond to each geographical area of the Chilean country, has set itself the goal of responding to the local needs of each community and, at the same time, covering regions with more extensive coverage.
Specifically, O'Higgins and Maule's health services decided to focus on the National Cancer Plan and in digital care advances for health problems such as teleradiology with the aim of strengthening epidemiological surveillance registration systems.
Against this background, the application of ICTs in the field of health helps to order information flows, enabling timelier and quality care.
About Teleradiology it can be said that it is possible to hasten and improve medical decision-making, shortening patient waiting times thanks to the sending of images and clinical data to a file and information system: the tele radiologist accesses the system, visualizes the study and performs the report. In addition, it allows to make referrals with specialists from other hospitals so that both professionals have the same information available and can work without any margin of error.
The analyses of these radiological examinations will be done remotely at the Digital Hospital, allowing thousands of people to detect a tumor in time and for a top specialist to see the images that were generated to make an early diagnosis and prevent it from suffer severe complications in case of neoplasm. What is expected to be achieved is to reach people who, for economic or geographical reasons, simply do not have access just like others.
Fernando Soto, director of the O'Higgins Health Service, said that the partnership with the Maule Health Service will be essential to develop more computer networks and thus improve people's health care and, most importantly, prevent the onset of cancer: what is the particular goal of both.
Dr. Rubén Gennero Riganti head of DIGERA, assured that the "duty and the demand that citizens have is to carry out a management of excellence in all health facilities". However, it must be "understood that this excellence has to be dominated by worrying about how the disease processes live, not only the patients, but also their relatives and all the people around our users, so that their time in the health system is the best possible and can meet their expectations that go much more for the good treatment empathy and a much more humane look at our health system."
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