The most relevant International Organizations in Digital Health issues come together to curb the inequality of opportunities through the use of technology.
The Ministers of Health of the G7 countries held on May 17 this year a meeting in Paris that focused on finding solutions to strengthen primary health care, reduce inequality gaps for developing countries and promote elimination of HIV / AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
Health systems in low and middle-income countries face significant challenges to provide high-quality and accessible care to all their citizens. In response, the G7, through its health policy infrastructure, donors and program implementers, is seeking innovative approaches to eliminate geographic and financial barriers to health.
A relevant factor is that developing countries are experiencing an unprecedented increase in the number of cell phone users, and particularly smartphones, as well as increasing internet access, with increasingly reduced costs.
As a result, software developers and implementers are exploring the use of digital health platforms as a means to overcome the challenges faced by traditional markets with limited resources in availability, quality and financing of care.
In this way, Digital Health is postulated as one of the great alternatives to close the health care gap that exists, particularly in Latin America.
To combat this inequality, various G7 countries such as France, Canada, Germany and Japan have begun to promote the strengthening of primary health care, the cornerstone of health systems.
On the other hand, there’s still a window of opportunity in the use of new analytical methods for the identification of population at risk, and the provision of health services at a distance, benefiting those who, due to their geographical situation, do not have access Immediate to health services, in particular hospitals.
The implementation of digital health requires systematic evaluations, as well as robust digital platforms. In both cases, the learning of the developments and implementations carried out should be taken as a guide to follow, which in turn will allow the different health policies that take advantage of the benefits of digital health to be strengthened
The interest of international organizations in promoting Digital Health as a center of the most important agendas in their meetings is notorious, which makes conversations increasingly focused on the resulting actions under which work begins and creates cases of replicable success.
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
https://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/90/5/11-099820/en/
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