Digital health improves the methods that public health system offers, assimilates the advances of technology in the institutions that host in the cloud the essential elements to reinforce the way in which the quality of life of citizens is protected.
Health cannot become a universal system until it can be fully supported by a digital platform. This was expressed by the general director general of Carlos Slim Foundation, Roberto Tapia-Conyer, within the 9th Global Health Conference, held in Miami, Florida.
According to Tapia-Conyer, the relationship between the health system and the digital world is crucial. We live in an era where absolutely all information regarding one topic or another can be found online. Similarly, the world of health and medicine must be digitized by incorporating electronic records that allow the patients to be treated at any time and wherever they are.
The interaction between patients, doctors and institutions will be much more practical and immediate, impacting on better administration of the system, its execution and its costs.
"It is not necessary to make million-dollar investments to implement digital platforms in health systems," Tapia-Conyer said, as while some existing application configurations remain to be modified, the platforms are already available, waiting to be universally included in public health institutions.
The world is at the height of technology, access to a smartphone or some other electronic device facilitates the user experience by updating the operation of the software immediately, by feedback the agents through two simultaneous channels.
The information "cures". It is important to be informed about diseases, causes, effects and other remedies to have a clinical history with in aim of integrating a whole process of many steps into one.
A friendly adaptation to digital health is required for Latin America to boost public policies that lead to the use of Internet, because only in countries such as the United States, Canada, Mexico or Costa Rica, there is a more active use of the Internet and for other purposes focused on education, health, business or security.
The idea of implementing cloud services within health systems is to positively evolve and change the way professionals operate user relationships and create more options. It is intended to build on alliances with private institutions to homogenize free access and to observe the reaction and behavior of users to adapt the system.
