{"id":23322,"date":"2021-12-30T10:15:13","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T16:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/?p=23322"},"modified":"2025-10-21T10:33:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T16:33:47","slug":"plataforma-guatemalteca-de-telemedicina-recibio-premio-nacional-de-innovacion-en-su-pais","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/noticias\/plataforma-guatemalteca-de-telemedicina-recibio-premio-nacional-de-innovacion-en-su-pais\/","title":{"rendered":"Guatemalan telemedicine platform received National Innovation Award in its country"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The telemedicine tool created by Guatemalans received the National Innovation Award (PNI) 2021, from the National Secretariat of Science and Technology Guatemala (Senacyt).<\/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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The digital platform for telemedicine and remote monitoring, Bitmec, was awarded the PNI in the category of Childhood and Adolescence. Senacyt presented the winners of the eight categories at an event held in October 2021.<\/p>

The Bitmec project was developed by professionals from various universities in Guatemala. Its purpose was to create a comprehensive telemedicine system, which included the platform, a mobile app and biomedical devices, for the health care of children and adolescents.<\/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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"We have been recognized nationally and internationally, what enriches us is giving Guatemala credits in technology and startups that have an impact, not only economically but also socially," explained Lorena Chac\u00f3n, co-founder of Bitmec.<\/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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The platform facilitates access to primary health care, thanks to medical devices that allow remote monitoring of children in the development stage. In addition, it has a mobile application that collects the information to create a digital medical record.<\/p>

In this sense, thanks to biomedical tools, devices can measure the level of oxygen in the blood, blood pressure, body temperature, heart rate, height and weight.<\/p>

On the other hand, the event was attended by the Ministry of Economy, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef), the Korea International Cooperation Agency (Koica ), the Technical Commission for Industry and the Technical Commission for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.<\/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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\u201cThis year, Senacyt received 74 proposals, increasing citizen participation, compared to previous years. This shows that Guatemala is a country that bets on innovation as a fundamental axis for its development. I appreciate the support of the cooperators and allies who made the culmination of the 2021 National Innovation Award possible, for once again believing in this initiative and following up on the winners so that they can broaden the horizons of their innovations to increase their impact\u201d, explained Ana Chan. , national secretary of the Senacyt.<\/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

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La herramienta de telemedicina creada por guatemaltecos recibi\u00f3 el Premio Nacional de Innovaci\u00f3n (PNI) 2021, por parte de la Secretar\u00eda Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnolog\u00eda Guatemala (Senacyt). La plataforma digital de telemedicina y monitoreo a distancia, Bitmec, fue galardonada con el PNI en la categor\u00eda de Ni\u00f1ez y adolescencia. La Senacyt present\u00f3 a los ganadores de las ocho categor\u00edas en un evento realizado en octubre de 2021. El proyecto de Bitmec, fue desarrollado por profesionales de diversas universidades de Guatemala. Su prop\u00f3sito fue crear un sistema de telemedicina integral, que incluy\u00f3 la plataforma, una app m\u00f3vil y dispositivos biom\u00e9dicos, para el cuidado de la salud de ni\u00f1os y adolescentes. \u201cHemos sido reconocidos en el \u00e1mbito nacional e internacional, lo que nos enriquece es dar a Guatemala cr\u00e9ditos en tecnolog\u00eda y en startups que impactan, no solo econ\u00f3micamente sino socialmente\u201d, explic\u00f3 Lorena Chac\u00f3n, cofundadora de Bitmec. La plataforma facilita el acceso a la atenci\u00f3n de salud primaria, gracias a dispositivos m\u00e9dicos que permiten el monitoreo remoto de ni\u00f1as y ni\u00f1os en etapa de desarrollo. Adem\u00e1s, cuenta con una aplicaci\u00f3n m\u00f3vil que colecta la informaci\u00f3n para crear un expediente m\u00e9dico digital. En este sentido, gracias a las herramientas biom\u00e9dicas, los dispositivos pueden medir el nivel de ox\u00edgeno en la sangre, presi\u00f3n arterial, temperatura corporal, frecuencia cardiaca, altura y peso. Por otra parte, el evento cont\u00f3 con la participaci\u00f3n del Ministerio de Econom\u00eda, el Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD), el Fondo de las Naciones Unidas para la Infancia (Unicef), la Agencia de Cooperaci\u00f3n Internacional de Corea (Koica), la Comisi\u00f3n T\u00e9cnica de Industria y la Comisi\u00f3n T\u00e9cnica de Innovaci\u00f3n y Emprendimiento. \u201cEste a\u00f1o, la Senacyt recibi\u00f3 74 propuestas, aumentando la participaci\u00f3n de la ciudadan\u00eda, en comparaci\u00f3n con a\u00f1os anteriores. Esto demuestra que Guatemala es un pa\u00eds que le apuesta a la innovaci\u00f3n como eje fundamental para su desarrollo. Agradezco el apoyo de los cooperantes y aliados que hicieron posible la culminaci\u00f3n del Premio Nacional de Innovaci\u00f3n 2021, por creer nuevamente en esta iniciativa y darle seguimiento a los ganadores para que puedan ampliar los horizontes de sus innovaciones para incrementar su impacto\u201d, explic\u00f3 Ana Chan, secretaria nacional de la Senacyt. BIBLIOGRAF\u00cdA DIARIO DE CENTROAM\u00c9RICA  https:\/\/dca.gob.gt\/noticias-guatemala-diario-centro-america\/plataforma-digital-al-servicio-de-la-salud\/ SENACYT https:\/\/www.senacyt.gob.gt\/portal\/index.php\/informate\/actualidad\/91-pni-ganadores-2021<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3395,160,3396],"tags":[145],"class_list":["post-23322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apps-moviles-e-internet-de-las-cosas","category-noticias","category-uso-de-plataformas-digitales","tag-noticias"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23322","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=23322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}