The Unique Digital Health Record already operates throughout the country and has information on 95% of the Costa Rican.
Costa Rica continues to reinvent its Digital Health systems as a Latin American reference in innovating its services to stay ahead in the ICT and digitalization development
That is why it adds to its Unique Digital Health Record (EDUS), the storage of a Digital Family Card carried out by the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS).
The procedure focuses on using tablets or smartphones to record family information digitally, once service providers go directly to homes and immediately upload all the data needed to create a clinical record of households in the area.
The written file process is saved and innovated. Currently, there is a secure copy of minutes that mark the number of members per family, risk of chronic or epidemiological diseases, among other factors in real time.
This new digital system will rely on GPS to remember appointments, surgeries and treatments that each patient must take on according to their particular situation.
According to institutional data, so far, the CCSS has 40,000 georeferenced homes and 60,000 tokens have already been updated, thanks to the use of the family card tool.
This sum of efforts complements the long-developed Electronic Clinical Record with a commitment to a well-organized patient data and the need of a virtual and flexible environment.
