{"id":25034,"date":"2022-04-29T08:57:45","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T13:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/?p=25034"},"modified":"2025-10-21T09:31:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T15:31:17","slug":"la-actualidad-de-los-marcos-normativos-de-telemedicina-en-america-latina-y-el-caribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/comunidades-conectadas\/la-actualidad-de-los-marcos-normativos-de-telemedicina-en-america-latina-y-el-caribe\/","title":{"rendered":"Current status of telemedicine regulatory frameworks in Latin America and the Caribbean"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) conducted a study on the telemedicine frameworks of 26 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. <\/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 IDB study showed the disparate advances in telemedicine regulations in Latin America and the Caribbean. For this they developed a evaluation instrument<\/a> that represent a step towards a solid regulatory framework, which includes five levels, basic, development phase, advanced, optimal and consolidated. In this sense, only two of the 26 countries studied exceed the 50% level of regulatory maturity.<\/p>

34,61% of the countries are at level 1, 46,15% at level 2 and 19,23% at level 3. The IDB explained that no country reached total scores that place them at level 4 or 5.<\/p>

In this sense, the IDB reported that only 13 of the countries studied have regulations in force, highlighting, for example, the case of Uruguay, which through Law 19,869, made it possible for the government to establish the guidelines to implement and develop the provision of telemedicine services in the country.<\/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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Another case is that of Panama, the Central American country approved the Law 203<\/a>, to develop and implement telehealth as a strategy for decongesting hospitals during the pandemic. As well as to strengthen remote monitoring of patients.<\/p>

Peru is also one of the countries with the greatest progress in telemedicine regulatory frameworks. The Law 30,421 approved in 2021<\/a>, establishes the guidelines for the implementation and development of telehealth services throughout the country.<\/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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This law determines principles of universality, equity, efficiency, service quality, decentralization, and social development, which are important not only for the development of telehealth, but also for other public health strategies.<\/p>

Argentina, for its part, has the Law 27,553<\/a>, which is focused on the regulation of electronic or digital prescriptions.<\/p>

On the other hand, the IDB recognized Peru, Panama and Colombia as the countries with the greatest progress in terms of governance in telemedicine, by including telemedicine in national health plans and\/or strategies. As the l Technical Document National Telehealth Plan of Peru; the 2021 Digital Agenda of Panama; and telemedicine within the Colombian National Health Strategy.<\/p>

Likewise, only five countries comply with a degree of progress in terms of human rights and transversal to telemedicine: Uruguay, Peru, Panama, Paraguay and Colombia.<\/p>

In the following link you can check the level of progress in each country of the region: https:\/\/socialdigital.iadb.org\/en\/sph\/dashboard<\/a><\/p>

Similarly, in the following link you will find the full document on the IDB study: https:\/\/publications.iadb.org\/es\/marco-normativo-de-telemedicina-estado-actual-y-tareas-pendientes<\/a>\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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El Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID), realiz\u00f3 un estudio sobre los marcos de telemedicina de 26 pa\u00edses de Latinoam\u00e9rica y el Caribe. El estudio del BID, mostr\u00f3 los avances dispares en la normatividad de telemedicina en la Am\u00e9rica Latina y el Caribe. Para ello desarrollaron un instrumento de evaluaci\u00f3n que representan un paso hacia un marco normativo s\u00f3lido, el cual incluye cinco niveles, b\u00e1sico, fase de desarrollo, avanzado, \u00f3ptimo y consolidado.  En este sentido, solamente dos de los 26 pa\u00edses estudiados superan el 50% del nivel de madurez normativa. El 34,61% de los pa\u00edses se encuentran en el nivel 1, 46,15% en el nivel 2 y 19,23% en el nivel 3. El BID explic\u00f3 que ning\u00fan pa\u00eds alcanz\u00f3 puntajes totales que los coloquen en el nivel 4 o 5. En este sentido, el BID inform\u00f3 que solo 13 de los pa\u00edses estudiados cuentan con regulaciones vigentes, destacan, por ejemplo, el caso de Uruguay, que a trav\u00e9s de la Ley 19.869, fue posible que el gobierno estableciera los lineamientos para implementar y desarrollar la prestaci\u00f3n de servicios por telemedicina en el pa\u00eds. Otro caso es el de Panam\u00e1, el pa\u00eds centroamericano aprob\u00f3 la Ley 203, para desarrollar e implementar la telesalud como una estrategia para el descongestionamiento de hospitales durante la pandemia. As\u00ed como para afianzar el monitoreo remoto de pacientes. Per\u00fa tambi\u00e9n es uno de los pa\u00edses con mayor avance en marcos normativos de telemedicina. La Ley 30.421 aprobada en 2021, establece los lineamientos para la implementaci\u00f3n y desarrollo de servicios de telesalud en todo el pa\u00eds. Esta ley determina principios de universalidad, equidad, eficiencia, calidad en el servicio, descentralizaci\u00f3n y desarrollo social, importantes no solo para el desarrollo de la telesalud, sino para otras estrategias de salud p\u00fablica. Argentina por su parte, cuenta con la Ley 27.553, que est\u00e1 enfocada en la regulaci\u00f3n de recetas electr\u00f3nica o digitales. Por otra parte, el BID reconoci\u00f3 a Per\u00fa, Panam\u00e1 y Colombia como los pa\u00edses con mayor avance en materia de gobernanza en telemedicina, al incluir la telemedicina en planes y\/o estrategias nacionales de salud. Como el l Documento T\u00e9cnico Plan Nacional de Telesalud de Per\u00fa; la Agenda Digital 2021 de Panam\u00e1; y la telemedicina dentro de la Estrategia Nacional de Salud de Colombia. Asimismo, solamente cinco pa\u00edses cumplen con un grado de avance en cuanto a derechos humanos y transversales a la telemedicina: Uruguay, Per\u00fa, Panam\u00e1, Paraguay y Colombia. En el siguiente enlace puedes consultar el nivel de avance en cada pa\u00eds de la regi\u00f3n: https:\/\/socialdigital.iadb.org\/en\/sph\/dashboard De igual forma, en el siguiente enlace se encuentra el documento completo sobre el estudio del BID: https:\/\/publications.iadb.org\/es\/marco-normativo-de-telemedicina-estado-actual-y-tareas-pendientes  BIBLIOGRAF\u00cdA BID https:\/\/publications.iadb.org\/es\/marco-normativo-de-telemedicina-estado-actual-y-tareas-pendientes<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,160,3394,3396],"tags":[145],"class_list":["post-25034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comunidades-conectadas","category-noticias","category-redes-sociales","category-uso-de-plataformas-digitales","tag-noticias"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25034","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=25034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}