The webinar organized by HIMSS and the Ministry of Health of Argentina addressed issues related to the management of the pandemic and the digital health agenda in Argentina.
Fernando Núñez as part of the Ministry of Health presented the strategic line of the Federal Digital Health Plan, which includes the following aspects:New legal framework for the adoption of new technologies in health care processes, training of professionals professionals in health informatics; Connectivity and Electronic Clinical History (HCE) resource management in all health centers, including vaccines, prescriptions, and healthcare tools, timely and complete registration to simplify through interoperable information systems, epidemiological and statistical data, health equipment with technological tools to facilitate timely communication, secure and protected information with privacy standards on telemedicine platforms, mobile applications, shift management, etc.
Argentina has since 2018 an initial strategy in Digital Health, which gave rise to the National Digital Health Network, and the National Telehealth Plan. This year recently in Congress, laws regulating the use of electronic medical prescriptions and the use of telemedicine have been amended. The Federal Plan provides that 2022 and 2024, 80% of health facilities are covered by the National Digital Health Network and the National Telehealth Plan, in addition to achieving HCE certification for use throughout the country.
One of the main challenges of this strategy, specifically in the case of the HCE and digital platforms, is the difference in jurisdictions, since not all have their own system, that is why open source tools have been developed so that different jurisdictions within the provinces can adapt it to their needs.
On the other hand, another of the topics presented in the webinar was the Agenda on Health by the government of the province of Buenos Aires. Province where its strategy is to design and implement an Integral Health Information Network, which favors the registration of structured information through SNOMED CT (Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine - Clinical Terms) in addition to offering an HCE solution that follows interoperability standards.
Finally, through HIMSS and the Government of the City of Buenos Aires, Analía Baum, of the direction of Health Information Systems, told the experience in the Argentine capital on the Digital Health strategy and the management of the pandemic, in which the MINSA of that city, devised a program for the management of COVID-19 cases, as well as a telecare program to provide remote medical care. Among other actions that coincide with the Federal Digital Health Plan.
For the full webinar go to the following link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh2udAfa5Gg
