{"id":12194,"date":"2021-01-27T09:10:32","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T15:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/?p=12194"},"modified":"2025-10-21T13:45:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T19:45:03","slug":"ops-reconoce-la-estrategia-de-uruguay-en-telemedicina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/plataformas-digitales\/ops-reconoce-la-estrategia-de-uruguay-en-telemedicina\/","title":{"rendered":"PAHO recognizes Uruguay's telemedicine strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Pan American Health Organization recognized that remote consultation mechanisms were key to the response against COVID-19 in Uruguay. More than ten years ago, the Agency for Electronic Government and the Information and Knowledge Society was created to promote different Digital Health solutions in the Uruguayan health system.<\/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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According to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), of the first 1,500 cases of COVID-19 in Uruguay, 86% received care at home either remotely, with teleconsultations or with services to their homes. Uruguay has a well-structured home health service, which, when combined with telemedicine, has made it possible to attend patients quickly from their homes.<\/p>

Part of these strategies is the result of the creation of the Agency for Electronic Government and the Information and Knowledge Society (Agesic) in 2006. The agency's objective is to \"seek to improve citizen services, using the possibilities offered by information and communications technologies (ICT). It will also promote the development of the Information Society in Uruguay with emphasis on the inclusion of the digital practice of its inhabitants and the strengthening of society's skills in the use of technologies\".\u00a0<\/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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Agesic, together with the Ministry of Public Health and Salud.uy, have promoted initiatives such as the electronic health record and an Integrated National Health System based on interoperability between institutions.<\/p>

Wilson Benia, PAHO specialist in Health Systems and Services, explained that the digitally literate population has been part of the good results in the adoption of telemedicine during the pandemic. <\/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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However, the professionals recognize that at the beginning there was resistance on the part of the population, \"at first there was some resistance, people were very disoriented, sometimes frightened and it seemed that it was not going to be possible, but later we saw that there were a lot of things that could be resolved by telephone\", explained Magdalena Ponce, a family physician at the Assistance Center of the Uruguayan Medical Union (CASMU) to PAHO.<\/p>

Briggitte Balum, Telemedicine coordinator at CASMU, recalled that, in April 2020, they collaborated together with the British Hospital in Montevideo to monitor the crew of an Australian cruise ship with a COVID-19 outbreak sailing near Uruguay. \"It was very emotional for us and a huge satisfaction to have been able to help them. From a telemedicine point of view there was daily monitoring here. We had two emergency doctors who were always very attentive and there were 21 days of telemedicine with daily support,\" he explained.<\/p>

PAHO has developed networks in several countries of the Americas to support the use of technology in medical care. Benia explains that telemedicine strategies must continue to be developed and improved in Uruguay, since through remote care it is possible to solve problems of saturation at the primary level of care.<\/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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https:\/\/paginav.cl\/2021\/01\/14\/certificacion-otorgara-sello-de-calidad-y-seguridad-en-uso-de-plataformas-de-telemedicina-en-chile\/<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\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<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

La Organizaci\u00f3n Panamericana de la Salud, reconoci\u00f3 que los mecanismos de consultas a distancia fueron clave para la respuesta contra COVID-19 en Uruguay. Desde hace m\u00e1s de diez a\u00f1os fue creada la Agencia de Gobierno Electr\u00f3nico y Sociedad de la Informaci\u00f3n y del Conocimiento que impulsa diferentes soluciones de Salud Digital en el sistema de salud uruguayo. Seg\u00fan la Organizaci\u00f3n Panamericana de Salud (OPS), de los primeros mil 500 casos de COVID-19 en Uruguay, 86% recibieron atenci\u00f3n en su casa sea de forma remota, con teleconsultas o con servicios a sus domicilios. Uruguay cuenta con servicio de salud a domicilio bien estructurado, que, al combinarlo con telemedicina, lograron atender de manera \u00e1gil a los pacientes desde sus casas. Parte de estas estrategias responden a la creaci\u00f3n de la Agencia de Gobierno Electr\u00f3nico y Sociedad de la Informaci\u00f3n y del Conocimiento (Agesic), en 2006. La agencia tiene como objetivo \u201cprocurar la mejora de los servicios al ciudadano, utilizando las posibilidades que brindan las tecnolog\u00edas de la informaci\u00f3n y las comunicaciones (TIC). Asimismo, impulsar\u00e1 el desarrollo de la Sociedad de la Informaci\u00f3n en Uruguay con \u00e9nfasis en la inclusi\u00f3n de la pr\u00e1ctica digital de sus habitantes y el fortalecimiento de las habilidades de la sociedad en la utilizaci\u00f3n de las tecnolog\u00edas\u201d.  Agesic junto al Ministerio de Salud P\u00fablica y Salud.uy, han impulsado iniciativas como la historia cl\u00ednica electr\u00f3nica y un Sistema Nacional Integrado de Salud basado en interoperabilidad entre instituciones. Wilson Benia, especialista de la OPS en Sistemas y Servicios de Salud, explic\u00f3 que la poblaci\u00f3n alfabetizada digitalmente ha sido participe de los buenos resultados en la adopci\u00f3n de telemedicina durante la pandemia. Sin embargo, los profesionales reconocen que al inicio hubo resistencia por parte de la poblaci\u00f3n, \u201cal principio hab\u00eda cierta resistencia, la gente estaba muy desorientada, a veces asustada y parec\u00eda que no iba a ser posible, pero despu\u00e9s vimos que hab\u00eda un mont\u00f3n de cosas que se resolv\u00edan por tel\u00e9fono\u201d, explic\u00f3 a la OPS Magdalena Ponce, m\u00e9dica familiar del Centro de Asistencia del Sindicato M\u00e9dico del Uruguay (CASMU). Briggitte Balum, coordinadora de Telemedicina del CASMU, record\u00f3 que, en abril de 2020, colaboraron junto con el Hospital Brit\u00e1nico de Montevideo, para monitorear a la tripulaci\u00f3n de un crucero australiano con un brote de COVID-19 que navegaba cerca de Uruguay. \u201cFue muy emotivo para nosotros y una enorme satisfacci\u00f3n poderlos haber ayudado. Desde el punto de vista de la telemedicina se hizo aqu\u00ed un control diario. Ten\u00edamos dos m\u00e9dicos de la emergencia siempre muy atentos y fueron 21 d\u00edas de telemedicina con apoyo diario”, explic\u00f3. La OPS ha desarrollado redes en diversas naciones de Am\u00e9rica para el apoyo en el uso de tecnolog\u00eda en la atenci\u00f3n m\u00e9dica. Benia explica que se deben seguir desarrollando y mejorando las estrategias de telemedicina en Uruguay, ya que a trav\u00e9s de la atenci\u00f3n remota es posible resolver problemas de saturaci\u00f3n en el primer nivel de atenci\u00f3n. BIBLIOGRAF\u00cdA OPS https:\/\/paginav.cl\/2021\/01\/14\/certificacion-otorgara-sello-de-calidad-y-seguridad-en-uso-de-plataformas-de-telemedicina-en-chile\/<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,153],"tags":[145],"class_list":["post-12194","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\/12194","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=12194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}