The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), through the Social Digital initiative, created a platform that shows the progress of regulatory frameworks on the implementation of electronic medical records (EHR) in 26 countries in the Latin American and Caribbean region .
Social Digital is an IDB initiative, whose objective is to bring the benefits of technology to the following priority sectors: health and social protection, education, work, social security, migration, gender and diversity. Among its areas of work are digital transformation and the creation of a data ecosystem.
In this sense, Social Digital created an interactive platform that shows current regulatory frameworks at the national level for the implementation of EHRs in Latin America and the Caribbean. Through the tool it is possible to make comparisons between countries and to know the normative documents of each country.
The information is organized into five fundamental categories for the implementation of EHR systems:
- Specificities of the EHR
- Protection of patient data and secondary use of information
- Action of health professionals
- Role of patients in relation to their health data
- Health standards and EHR interoperability
The platform has a map and a list of countries where several options can be selected to make a comparison. Said comparison is shown through a radial graph whose extremes are represented by the five categories mentioned previously.
For example, in Latin America, countries such as Uruguay and Peru, have a complete advance of EHR and it has been fully introduced in their health systems. On the other hand, Mexico, according to the IDB tool, has an advance of 94,74% in the implementation of HCE.
The tool allows the regulations and laws that apply in each territory for the development of the EHR to be displayed when selecting a country.
Check the tool in the following link:
