The government of Argentina will implement a variable in medical consultations: Teleconsulting. Within telemedicine, this platform has the mission of providing medical care to all people without considering distances or geographical areas.
Senior commanders of the health system of Tucumán, met to organize the new implementation of the teleconsulting system. It will operate in the country for the benefit of the population concerned of adequate management in saving time and displacement.
The mode of teleconsultation comes to strengthen telemedicine and will be implemented throughout the region, highlighting the provinces of Tucumán, San Luis, Catamarca and La Rioja. The Argentine government has already begun the counselling and training phase so that the leaders of the health units are aware of all the details in terms of operation and facilities.
Teleconsulting have served as an auxiliary of health services in digital and remote format, since, it allows patients to be linked online with specialists, without having to move from home to office. The new platform to be used in Argentina is a web system that takes the patient data to determine which health center to transfer the user together to access their clinical history.
"It is a platform that has standards to be able to interconnect to other information systems that the province tells as electronic medical history. It is a simpler version, useful for the professional, you can enter the platform from the cell phone", detailed the National Coordinator of Telehealth, Emiliano López.
An example took place in the town of Tilisarao, where a patient with hypothyroidism had a consultation from her locality to the province of San Luis. Another case thanks to a video conference, Alma Monserrat, six years old, had an interconsultation between pediatricians from both places without the need to travel, saving time and money.
The officials who were part of quorum about the project were: Rossana Chala (Minister of Health), Lucia Cebe (Undersecretary of the Ministry), Emiliano López (National Coordinator of Telehealth), Maia Berlin(Operational Management and Planning), Veronica Ali (Strategic Directorate of Programs for Prevention and Health Care), Luis Rocha (Medical Technology Management) and Conrado Llapar (Medical Reference).
This is another great example of how governments set digital health programmes as a priority on their countries' development agendas.
SECRETARY OF STATE FOR PUBLIC COMMUNICATION
SAINT LOUIS NEWS AGENCY
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