{"id":10776,"date":"2020-11-05T09:21:50","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T15:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/?p=10776"},"modified":"2025-10-21T14:17:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T20:17:47","slug":"incremento-la-oferta-de-servicios-de-telemedicina-en-colombia-durante-la-pandemia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/plataformas-digitales\/incremento-la-oferta-de-servicios-de-telemedicina-en-colombia-durante-la-pandemia\/","title":{"rendered":"The offer of telemedicine services increased in Colombia during the pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"
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During the pandemic there was considerable growth in health centers offering telemedicine services<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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In Colombia, telemedicine has progressed since 2006, when resolution 1448 was published, which opened the doors for the use of this modality in service-providing institutions and the enabling the extension of health services to remote locations. There were rethinks within the guidelines for the use of telehealth, in 2010 telehealth was established to support the Social Security system in Health, in 2015 Law 1751 of 2015 it was needed as one of the elements of the fundamental right to health the \"access to health services and technologies that guarantees comprehensive care, timely and high quality respectively\".<\/p>

In addition, recently, in 2019, through resolution 2654 of 2019, in the second chapter, concerning Telesalud it was defined as a tool that \u201cseeks to improve access, resoluteness, continuity, quality of clinical care, impact public health and health education, through the use of information and communications technologies\u201d. And telemedicine in chapter three was defined as a component modality of telehealth that aims to facilitate access to health services in any of its phases, promotion, prevention, diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation and palliation.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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This year previous regulations on telehealth and telemedicine accompanied the health emergency situation to carry out a comprehensive strategy with traditional and remote medical services. The modality of telemedicine present in a considerable number of health centers was key for the population to continue receiving medical care during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>

\u201cAlthough no country in the world was prepared for this pandemic, at least Colombia in terms of telehealth had a strong regulatory component, as well as significant advances by the different health actors,\u201d explained the Director of Service Delivery of the Ministry of Health and Social Protection, Luis Fernando Correa.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Currently in Colombia there are 2.371 uncertain health facilities in the Special Register of Health Service Providers (REPS), in which they provide a total of 9.179 services in telemedicine mode.<\/p>

This year the growth of telemedicine was accelerated, as there was a 117% increase in service providers offering this modality remotely, and the services offered during this year (January to September) increased by 192%. The most demanded services through telemedicine are internal medicine, psychology, nutrition and dietetics, dermatology and cardiovascular diagnosis.<\/p>

The official also explained that \u201cthe provision of health services through the telemedicine modality must preserve quality with accessibility, opportunity, safety and relevance as set out in the mentioned Resolution\u201d.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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FREEDOM DAILY<\/strong><\/p>

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MINSALUD<\/strong><\/p>

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Durante la pandemia hubo un crecimiento considerable en los centros de salud que ofrecen servicios de telemedicina En Colombia, la telemedicina ha avanzado desde el 2006, cuando se public\u00f3 la resoluci\u00f3n 1448, que abri\u00f3 las puertas para que se utilizara esta modalidad en instituciones prestadoras de servicios y de esta manera propiciar la extensi\u00f3n de los servicios de salud a lugares remotos. Existieron replanteamientos dentro de los lineamientos para el uso de telesalud, en 2010 se estableci\u00f3 a la telesalud para un apoyo al sistema de Seguridad Social en Salud, en 2015 La Ley 1751 de 2015 se precis\u00f3 como uno de los elementos del derecho fundamental a la salud el \u201cacceder a los servicios y tecnolog\u00edas de salud que le garantice una atenci\u00f3n integral, oportuna y de alta calidad respectivamente\u201d. Adem\u00e1s, recientemente, en 2019, a trav\u00e9s de la resoluci\u00f3n 2654 de 2019, en el cap\u00edtulo segundo, referente a Telesalud se defini\u00f3 como una herramienta que \u201cbusca mejorar el acceso, la resolutivita, la continuidad, la calidad de la atenci\u00f3n cl\u00ednicas, impactar en la salud p\u00fablica y la educaci\u00f3n para la salud, mediante el uso de tecnolog\u00edas de la informaci\u00f3n y las comunicaciones\u201d. Y la telemedicina en el cap\u00edtulo tercero fue definido como una modalidad componente de la telesalud que tiene como objetivo facilitar el acceso a servicios de salud en cualquiera de sus fases, promoci\u00f3n, prevenci\u00f3n, diagn\u00f3stico, tratamiento, rehabilitaci\u00f3n y paliamiento. Este a\u00f1o las regulaciones previas sobre telesalud y telemedicina acompa\u00f1aron a la situaci\u00f3n de emergencia sanitaria para realizar una estrategia integral con servicios m\u00e9dicos tradicionales y a distancia. La modalidad de telemedicina presente en una cantidad considerable de centros de salud, fue clave para que la poblaci\u00f3n continuara recibiendo atenciones m\u00e9dicas durante la pandemia de COVID-19. \u201cAunque ning\u00fan pa\u00eds del mundo estaba preparado para esta pandemia, por lo menos Colombia en lo que respecta a telesalud contaba con un componente normativo fuerte, as\u00ed como avances importantes por parte de los diferentes actores de salud\u201d, explic\u00f3 el director Prestaci\u00f3n de Servicios del Ministerio de Salud y Protecci\u00f3n Social, Luis Fernando Correa. Actualmente en Colombia existen 2 mil 371 establecimientos de salud inciertos en el Registro Especial de Prestadores de Servicios de Salud (REPS), en los cuales brindan un total de 9 mil 179 servicios en modalidad de telemedicina. Este a\u00f1o el crecimiento de la telemedicina fue acelerado, ya que hubo un incremento de 117% en los prestadores de servicios que ofrecen esta modalidad a distancia, adem\u00e1s, aumentaron los servicios ofrecidos durante este a\u00f1o (enero a septiembre), en un 192%.  Los servicios m\u00e1s demandados a trav\u00e9s de telemedicina son medicina interna, psicolog\u00eda, nutrici\u00f3n y diet\u00e9tica, dermatolog\u00eda y diagn\u00f3stico cardiovascular. El funcionario tambi\u00e9n explic\u00f3 que \u201cla prestaci\u00f3n de los servicios de salud a trav\u00e9s de la modalidad de telemedicina debe preservar la calidad con accesibilidad, oportunidad, seguridad y pertinencia como lo establece la Resoluci\u00f3n mencionada\u201d. BIBLIOGRAF\u00cdA DIARIO LA LIBERTAD https:\/\/diariolalibertad.com\/sitio\/2020\/10\/durante-la-pandemia-se-consolido-la-telemedicina-en-el-pais\/ MINSALUD https:\/\/www.minsalud.gov.co\/Normatividad_Nuevo\/Resoluci%C3%B3n%20No.%202654%20del%202019.pdf<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,153],"tags":[145],"class_list":["post-10776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comunidades-conectadas","category-plataformas-digitales","tag-noticias"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}