“Bogota Salud Digital” platform will allow medical professional to access information of more than 1.2 million users to diagnose and treat patient’s.
Last August 9th “Bogotá Salud Digital” was presented, it has access to clinical information of Bogotas’ Public Network. To this day this network has more than 1.2 million users, creating a data base with robust clinical histories.
This platform will connect information systems from the Electronic Medical History in a unified manner, that will allow appointments scheduling, authorize solutions, and manage the medical formula integrated to Health Services Network.
Enrique Peñalosa, Mayor of Bogotá, declared in the presentation that “its good to use technology for the service of citizens. We have done a special effort for this new platform to be friendly to the user and we are certain that it will make everyone’s life easier”.
According to the information given in this event, it is the first time that Latin America and the Caribbean will connect, simultaneously and in real time, users’ clinical history.
The use is simple, the patients get a consult and the health professional will enter the data gathered in the system. Afterwards, the patient will receive in his Smartphone the indications of what medicine to buy and where, eliminating paper use and facilitating the collection.
One of the greatest benefits of this tools is data consulting, “today a patient that arrives unconscious to the health system will have no inconvenient, because in the platform his medical information will be stores to facilitate attention, you will only need the physicians’ medical ID to know if a patient has allergies or any disease”, the mayor said.
Likewise, it will allow physicians to have necessary and opportune information to diagnose and treat the patient from any point in public attention.
Among the main reaches it will have information access 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, storing the medical history from more than 8 million people, having space to schedule 7.5 million medical appointments and availability to tore more than 2.6 million medical formulas a year.
We expect to boost the digital network, increase its use and promote better health services.
