The 10th IT Health Forum was held, presenting a vast typology on the field of information systems rooted in digital health to take care of the needs and data of patients.
As a first presentation, the topic of improving the exchange of health information between the different jurisdictions of the country was presented in order to achieve the objective of a synchronized network where, both doctors and users, can interact within the same technology; Alejandro López Osornio, national director of Health Information Systems, took the baton of this analysis.
"It's a huge effort, but it's paying off"said, Osornio when introducing the National Digital Health Network that "arrived to stay, beyond political swings." At the same time, he released that to generate more resources in this field is developing a digital recipe configured to be worked internally within any hospital.
The creation of the National Center for Health Terminology was another of the topics presented by statistical data management specialist Karina Rovirol. The initiative supports the SNOMED CT medical vocabulary to integrate all terminology into the development of a National Dictionary of Medicine that organizes public health statistics.
On legislation, the legal officer Horacio Granero explained the need to manage laws that control the required security for mass technology work. One of these issues is the regulation of digital prescriptions and their legal validation through a universal electronic signature for each doctor.
For her part, Victoria Martínez Suárez, business development manager at Red Hat Argentina for the South and Central America Region, said that public access to data (or open source) will pay off to deal with the most common diseases and be able to perform practices such as automatic image processing and medicine processing.
To conclude the event, ZMA IT Solutions' head of technology, Leonardo Ramos, called for protecting information stored in the cloud as it could become a target of cyberattacks due to the profits that are visible with its traffic.
Modernization of information systems
Good news for digital health came from innovations that transform hospitals conventional methods. A platform that allows to integrate several official documents in digital format with just having a QR code, virtual reality glasses that seek to reduce anxiety in children prior to the application of vaccines, and an interactive system that rate the performance of the professional, are some of the advances that fight for a medical revolution for the benefit of all.
