On September 13 of this year, the Ministry of Health and the Undersecretary for Integration of Health and Primary Care systems announced the development of new policies to promote Digital Health legislation in Argentina.
The Institute of Strategic Studies and International Relations (IEERI) and the Circle of Legislators of the Nation (CLNA) will work together with the Health Observatory of the Faculty of Law of the University of Buenos Aires (CBA), to update the regulatory map of Digital Health, which it was announced in September in the official gazette of the Government of Argentina. Which seeks to promote legislation in favor of this sector of public health.
This collaboration aims to "review and update the regulations related to new technologies and innovation that grant new rights framed in health citizenship," explained Horacio Pernasetti, vice president of IEERI.
The collaboration presentation event was led by Daniel Basile, president of the CLNA, who trusted that the agreement will be key to monitoring, collecting and analyzing data that will guide the health system to be more efficient, equitable and sustainable.
On the other hand, Dr. Marisa Aizenberg, professor at the UBA, explained that the agreement aims to carry out actions to face the challenges posed by Digital Health and recognized that: “The irruption of technologies and the use of electronic devices, monitoring devices, media, social networks and interactions on the Internet in the health sector are producing a profound transformation in the models of health care and management”.
For his part, Dr. Claudio Mate, on behalf of the Chamber of Deputies of the Nation, explained that digital transformation is a debate that gained momentum due to the pandemic, since it accelerated times and meant that it was no longer just discussed. in the academic sector. “You have to put health within the reach of people to improve their quality of life. We must equalize the rights between health professionals and patients,” he explained.
Sol García Gili, who works as academic coordinator at the Health Observatory of the Faculty of the UBA, highlighted the importance of ethical-legal frameworks "that allow rapid adaptation of health organizations, as a clear opportunity to improve conditions of equity and access to health, but also of more and better rights for health citizens”.
One of the points most highlighted by various representatives of the organizations in this collaboration is the importance of digital transformation being safe, ethical, equitable and inclusive.
