The Faculty of Medicine of the Universidad del Desarrollo (UDD), presented a seminar entitled: "Technologies at the service of access and quality of Health in Chile: guidelines for good practices in Telemedicine and Telehealth".
The seminar was organized by the Biomedical Informatics Center and the Bioethics and Law Observatory of the Faculty of Medicine of the UDD. In addition, it had the participation of the Telemedicine Unit of the University of Concepción, University of California, UC Davis and the Ministry of Health.
Specialists from the Institute of Sciences and Innovation in Medicine (ICIM) of the UDD, presented the advances on the foundations and guidelines for the development of telemedicine in Chile. This project began four years ago in 2018, and was born with the purpose of developing, disseminating and implementing the guidelines for the development of this modality in the country, as well as to accelerate the innovation processes of health systems.
Maurizio Mattoli, ICIM researcher and project director, explained that it is necessary to improve access to health and improve the efficiency of the system through telemedicine, within a framework of quality and safety.
The proposed guidelines include aspects related to remote care, characterization of telehealth services, regulatory framework, standards of care, organization of human resources and technologies, financing, and training.
It is expected that in June of this year the third edition of the guidelines will be published, and that the project will become part of the University Telemedicine Network (RUTE Chile). In this way, it will be possible to promote the development of telemedicine in the country and articulate new initiatives and strategies for the digital transformation of the health sector.
