Peru have two public institutions that manages the telemedicine services in the public health system.
Dr. Juan Carlos Bartolo Kato, specialist in medical informatics and former director of the National Telemedicine Center (CENATE), offered an interview where he answered questions about the role that telemedicine plays in Peru and its progress.
Digital Health is a concept that as Dr. Bartolo Kato explains, includes health information technologies and digital health, comprehending telehealth, telemedicine, mobile health issues and recently Artificial Intelligence in health and Big data.
There are good advances in Perú, since they have specific areas in Digital Health and telemedicine, both in the Ministry of Health and in eSalud, two organizations of the public health system in that country. These specific areas are the General Directorate of TeleHealth and CENATE, in which digital health solutions are developed at the public level to incorporate it into health systems.
These institutions seek the development of health at the digital level, which in the words of Dr. Bartolo Kato, represent a lot of cost benefit worldwide, since in different countries remote patient care programs are already developed, to generate remote diagnoses without the need for the physical presence of a specialist. And for attentions through biomedical equipment without the need for transfers, since access to specialists is limited.
He explained that Peru uses PACS systems, images that were traditionally printed on plates, can be consulted through its digital system, so the image is oblique, so that a specialist would give a diagnosis remotely.
He considered that Peru have an adequate level in its telemedicine systems compared to other South American countries, however work still needed to be done to improve the quality and quantity of available services.
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