The Concepción Health Service in Chile (SSC) has formed an alliance with various institutions to start a pilot project that offers remote health services.
The province of Concepción in Chile has begun a stage of technology transfer in its health services. The pilot project in question seeks that more communes in the Concepción area have access to health equipment and quality medical care, especially those that are further away from the most inhabited areas and with greater health coverage.
In this sense, the island of Santa María and the commune of Santa Juana, new technical equipment will be installed and professionals will be trained to create a remote medicine system, which responds to any emergency or disease diagnosis.
“Today the concrete possibility of arriving with high-level telemedicine and providing support to these inhabitants 24 hours a day, seven days a week, is born,” explained the deputy director of Assistance Management of the SSC, Dr. Jaime Tapia.
The SSC seeks that the implementation of telemedicine on the island of Santa Maria, provide timely care in case of any medical emergency. And transfers are better managed in case a patient requires specialized care.
In this way, the Guillermo Grant Benavente Hospital or Regional Hospital of Concepción will use its medical telecare services to support doctors in remote areas and communities. "This is a pioneering project in the region and the country, which promotes innovation in the medical field and involves integration with relevant actors," explained Miriam Valdebenito, director of the SSC.
The three institutions in charge of the pilot project are the SSC, the Virginio Gómez Professional Institute and the Biobío Development Corporation. In other words, it is a strategy that combines efforts from the public and private sectors, as well as the academic sector.
