Deputies of the Provincial Legislature of La Pampa approved the regulation of the Provincial System of Single Digital Clinical History and the Telemedicine System.
The Provincial System of Unique Digital Clinical History seeks that health professionals in the province register the activities and medical actions of each patient. In this way it will be possible to consult the data of any patient in real time from anywhere in the province of La Pampa. Likewise, it promotes the decentralization of medical information, and makes the exchange of data between professionals more effective.
Provincial health minister Mario Kohan explained that the Single Digital Clinical Record is a tool that changes the system and expands the different levels of accessibility, such as access to studies such as tomography, electrocardiograms or patient laboratory analysis. In addition, he considered that the approval of this law promotes inclusion and expands the rights of access to health.
"We concentrate the information from the entire provincial territory, so, to give an example, at the end of the year we can see how many hypertensive patients we assist throughout this year, knowing this information allows us to develop strategies that reduce complications from suffering from this disease," he added. the minister. "One thing is to imagine and another to have the concrete data, and that allows the digital medical record, then, the Government can anticipate and carry out promotion and prevention in certain localities or regions", he commented.
On the other hand, in terms of telemedicine, this law is extremely important, especially in a province like La Pampa, which has a large land area and a low population density of 2.2 inhabitants per km2, while in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, for example, is more than 14 thousand inhabitants per km2. Long distances make it difficult to obtain assistance and medical care in the province, which is why telemedicine will be an important asset for access to health services.
“This means caring for, stabilizing the patient in an acute event in the place where said event occurs, and not having to move him kilometers to solve it, when that can cost him his life, or generate severe sequelae that can be avoided through this strategy. ”, explained the minister.
Thus, the regulation and promotion of telemedicine in the province promises to carry out remote medical diagnoses and save lives thanks to the support of digital remote communication technologies.
DIGITAL MARACO
THE DIARY OF THE PAMPA
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