CENS TECH CHALLENGE, an entrepreneurship tournament in which programmers, entrepreneurs, and health professionals participated, was carried out to form the Chilean chapter of HL7.
The CENS TECH CHALLENGE was inaugurated in front of more than 100 members of the world of Digital Health on June 25. The world of information systems is at a crucial moment, in which, at its short existence, there are still thousands of fields undiscovered or fully known. With the aim of informing and instructing chilean entrepreneurs about new techniques, technologies and other important elements for the health sector, this series of free meet-ups began as part of a entrepreneurship tournament.
This event, carried out by CENS and Open Beauchef, Corfo and ITMS Chile, is characterized for promoting new entrepreneurs and their projects in the health sector, and providing them with all the information and training at a technological and digital level to allow substantial growth in the sector and thus achieving a mostly connected health system.
This tournament also has a multidisciplinary approach, and has had the participation of a number of actors in the Digital Health ecosystem, including programmers, entrepreneurs and other innovators, regardless of their academic background or professional career.
Diego Kaminker, affiliated director of HL7 spoke about the HL7 standards available to innovate in Digital Health, and the progress that has been achieved and can continue to be achieved within the sector. “HL7 FHIR is a facilitator. What we are currently doing with FHIR is to demolish all technological obstacles, so there only remain the political or the related to business rules ones”, said the member of the Board of Directors of HL7 Argentina.
One of the biggest attractions in the implementation of technology and digitalization of the health sector is, without a doubt, Big Data. The data that can be generated by health professionals about patients, conditions, treatments and other specifications, which allows the enhancement of search engines and predictions of many cases, achieving a better treatment of patients and therefore a better public health. Within the knowledge of Big Data, it’s also sought to inform how to protect this very same data, and ensure patient safety. The objective is that users can access their information and even contribute to their clinical records through contributions on continuity or reactions to certain conditions or medications, progress, allergies, and so on. This will allow to be faster and more objective in the diagnosis, and more efficient in a global aspect.
One of the advantages of digitizing information is that you don’t start from a non existing infrastructure. Organizations begin by adapting what is already known and used in a smarter way. In addition, this process is less disruptive for a doctor or nurse, so adoption is more accelerated. Each time a new patient is treated, or one is followed up, there will already be a record or file that will be updated with this new consultation.
