More than five million patients in Honduras have electronic medical records at the Hospital Escuela (HE).
The project to digitize clinical records in Honduras began at the end of 2015 in the HE, the most important in the country. In addition, they have made progress in the digital prescription of medicines in pharmacies through an interconnected network of warehouses.
Along with the project to digitize the electronic medical record, the Hospital began to systematize emergency triage processes for adults and is currently working with tools to promote outpatient consultations.
However, one of the most innovative advances is the implementation of electronic business cards to control the admission of relatives of hospitalized patients and an electronic bracelet that identifies each hospitalized patient and the area where they are hospitalized.
“The idea of everything is to be able to provide the best possible care to the patient, improve times, have more exact and precise statistics, provide a quality service that is available at the right time and not only in the Teaching Hospital, but in the different service centers in the country”, explained the head of the HE Technology Management Unit, Fernando Figueroa.
The digitization project seeks to complete the electronic files of all patients in the next five years. It is worth mentioning that Honduras has a population of approximately 9.9 million inhabitants and more than 5 million already have their electronic registration.
