The telemedicine service of the Cayetano Heredia Hospital in Lima, Peru will now have 20 medical specialties in this modality.
The hospital currently provides limited services as face-to-face care is restricted. Therefore, telemedicine is ideal for providing specialized care to patients who need it. Given this situation, the Peruvian Ministry of Health (Minsa) reported that the Cayetano Heredia Hospital will expand the number of medical specialties in the telemedicine modality. The service will provide teleconsultations and teleinterconsultations with specialists from other hospitals.
"In our hospital, within the telemedicine axis, we have four activities that we offer, the most recurrent being teleconsultations and teleinterconsultations, the same ones that work with electronic medical records developed in our institution and are carried out by telephone and by videoconference, respectively", explained the general director of the hospital, Juan Quispe Cuba.
The medical specialties that are currently offered through telemedicine and its derivatives are: general medicine, internal medicine, hematology, endocrinology, rheumatology, urology, gynecology and obstetrics, radiation oncology, neurology, psychiatry, pneumology, geriatrics, nephrology, infectology, pediatrics , pediatric neurology, cardio-pediatrics, pediatric nephrology, pediatric infectious disease and pediatric endocrinology.
Teleconsultations are carried out through telephone appointments and through the hospital's electronic medical record system. Currently the telemedicine service only serves insured patients, however, they hope that in the coming weeks they will implement a system that includes all users, according to the head of the Telehealth and Telemedicine Functional Unit, Paola Mendoza Santayana.
To schedule an appointment it is necessary to call 213-6000. On the other hand, teleinterconsultations are scheduled by sending an email to telesalud.hosp.cayetanoheredia@gmail.com.
