{"id":31490,"date":"2022-09-07T10:55:57","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T15:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/?p=31490"},"modified":"2025-10-20T11:08:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T17:08:02","slug":"proyectos-actuales-de-salud-digital-en-los-paises-de-centroamerica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/comunidades-conectadas\/proyectos-actuales-de-salud-digital-en-los-paises-de-centroamerica\/","title":{"rendered":"Current Digital Health projects in Central American countries"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In an interview with Salud Digital, Daniel Otzoy, general director of the Central American Health Informatics Network (RECAINSA), presented the various digital transformation projects in health that continue to be implemented in the Central American region. <\/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 recent years, digitization processes have become a necessary strategy and beyond being seen as a luxury, they have begun to be planned as a real opportunity to improve health systems on a large scale. In addition, the start of the pandemic accelerated digitization processes and the promotion of digital services such as remote consultations.<\/p>

Daniel Otzoy explains that, in the case of RECAINSA, the pandemic modified its plans for the future, since part of its strategy to promote digitization and digital literacy began to take place organically. \u201cWe went from digitization to transformation\u201d, mentions the director of RECAINSA.<\/p>

Otzoy highlighted the importance of joint work between the public and private sectors, as well as the need for the academy to actively participate in the digital transformation, training professionals with skills in Digital Health.<\/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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Likewise, Otzoy recognizes that the governments of the Central American countries are more sensitive to issues on the digital agenda. El Salvador, for example, has made a strong commitment to Digital Health with an aggressive agenda in terms of digital transformation. Even Otzoy considers that he is currently above the digital transformation agenda of countries like Costa Rica and Panama, which had remained the Central American countries with the greatest interest in these issues.<\/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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For example, the Government of The Savior<\/strong> through the Ministry of Health is currently a member of SNOMED CT. This was possible due to the publication of the 2020 National Integrated Health System law, in which the Ministry of Health proposed strengthening the digital transformation of the health sector. In this sense, El Salvador applies new models of registration and systematization of clinical data in order to achieve the analysis of multiple variables and generate timely, verifiable and quality information in the health system.<\/p>

InThe Chronic Disease Information System has been implemented in Guatemala<\/strong>, as Otzoy explains, is a country that remains somewhat resistant to digital changes in the health system. However, the process has begun as its Digital Health strategy is close to being officially approved. "The problem is that sometimes these strategies are not inclusive, the strategy that a group of people within the ministry designed, but at least they are already talking about a strategy, about telemedicine."<\/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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Continuing with Guatemala, the director of RECAINSA reviewed the telehealth projects that have been implemented in Guatemala. For example, in the Altiplano, with the collaboration of the Pan American Health Organization, a telemedicine strategy has been implemented. On the other hand, there is the project of the foundation TulaHealth<\/a>, which since 2004 has been collaborating with the Guatemalan Ministry of Health and has recently been incorporated into the structure of the ministry. And currently the ministry works with the Inter-American Development Bank for the implementation of the electronic medical record.<\/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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InThe Chronic Disease Information System has been implemented in Honduras <\/strong>Digital Health has also recently made strides specifically in telemedicine. For example, through the TeleSAN strategy<\/a> which has the support of the European Union and the Pan American Organization for Development. In this sense, with support from the IDB and PAHO, Honduras has begun to strengthen and expand its telemedicine and telehealth strategy at the national level.<\/p>

At a regional level, Otzoy explains the importance of strategic partners. "We had a meeting with the executive secretary of the Council of Ministers of Health of Central America, to present the project of the global digital health index thanks to the sponsorship of the digital government group."<\/p>

In addition, there are other partners in the region such as the United States International Cooperation Agency or the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which have an office in Guatemala.<\/p>

In this way and in general terms, after the pandemic, Otzoy recognized that there is hope in the Central American region to continue and advance with the digital transformation of the health sector.<\/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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SNOMED<\/strong><\/p>

https:\/\/www.snomed.org\/our-stakeholders\/member\/el-salvador<\/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":"

En entrevista con Salud Digital, Daniel Otzoy director general de la Red Centroamericana de Inform\u00e1tica en Salud (RECAINSA), expuso los diversos proyectos de transformaci\u00f3n digital en salud que se contin\u00faan implementando en la regi\u00f3n de Centroam\u00e9rica. Durante los \u00faltimos a\u00f1os los procesos de digitalizaci\u00f3n pasaron a ser una estrategia necesaria y m\u00e1s all\u00e1 de verse como un lujo comenz\u00f3 a planearse como una oportunidad real para mejorar los sistemas de salud a gran escala. Adem\u00e1s, el comienzo de la pandemia aceler\u00f3 los procesos de digitalizaci\u00f3n y la promoci\u00f3n de servicios digitales como las consultas a distancia. Daniel Otzoy, explica que, en el caso de la RECAINSA, la pandemia modific\u00f3 sus planes a futuro, ya que parte de su estrategia de promoci\u00f3n de la digitalizaci\u00f3n y alfabetizaci\u00f3n digital, se comenz\u00f3 a dar de manera org\u00e1nica. \u201cPasamos de la digitalizaci\u00f3n a la transformaci\u00f3n\u201d, menciona el director de la RECAINSA. Otzoy resalt\u00f3 la importancia del trabajo en conjunto de los sectores p\u00fablico y privado adem\u00e1s de la necesidad de que la academia participe en la transformaci\u00f3n digital de forma activa formado a profesionales con competencias en Salud Digital. Asimismo, Otzoy reconoce que los gobiernos de los pa\u00edses centroamericanos tienen mayor sensibilidad ante los temas de agenda digital. El Salvador, por ejemplo, ha apostado fuertemente a la Salud Digital con una agenda agresiva en t\u00e9rminos de transformaci\u00f3n digitan. Incluso Otzoy considera que actualmente se encuentra por encima de la agenda de transformaci\u00f3n digital de pa\u00edses como Costa Rica y Panam\u00e1 que hab\u00edan permanecido como los pa\u00edses de Centroam\u00e9rica con mayor inter\u00e9s en estos temas. Por ejemplo, el Gobierno de El Salvador a trav\u00e9s del Ministerio de Salud actualmente es miembro de SNOMED CT. Esto fue posible debido a la publicaci\u00f3n de la ley del Sistema Nacional Integrado de Salud de 2020, en la que el Ministerio de Salud plante\u00f3 el fortalecimiento de la transformaci\u00f3n digital del sector salud. En este sentido, El Salvador aplica nuevos modelos de registro y sistematizaci\u00f3n de datos cl\u00ednicos con el objetivo de lograr el an\u00e1lisis de m\u00faltiples variables y generan informaci\u00f3n oportuna, verificable y de calidad en el sistema de salud. En Guatemala, seg\u00fan explica Otzoy es un pa\u00eds que permanece con cierta resistencia ante los cambios digitales en el sistema de salud. Sin embargo, el proceso ha comenzado pues su estrategia de Salud Digital est\u00e1 cerca de ser aprobada oficialmente. \u201cEl problema es que a veces estas estrategias no son inclusivas, la estrategia que un grupo de gente dentro del ministerio dise\u00f1o, pero al menos ya se est\u00e1 hablando de estrategia, de telemedicina\u201d. Continuando con Guatemala, el director de la RECAINSA repas\u00f3 los proyectos de telesalud que se han implementado en Guatemala. Por ejemplo, en el Altiplano, con la colaboraci\u00f3n de la Organizaci\u00f3n Panamericana de la Salud se ha implementado una estrategia de telemedicina. Por otra parte, est\u00e1 el proyecto de la fundaci\u00f3n TulaSalud, que desde 2004 colaboraba con el Ministerio de Salud de Guatemala y recientemente ha sido incorporada a la estructura del ministerio. Y actualmente el ministerio trabaja con el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo para la implementaci\u00f3n de la historia cl\u00ednica electr\u00f3nica. En Honduras la Salud Digital tambi\u00e9n ha logrado avances recientemente espec\u00edficamente en telemedicina. Por ejemplo, a trav\u00e9s de la estrategia TeleSAN que cuenta con el apoyo de la Uni\u00f3n Europea y la Organizaci\u00f3n Panamericana para el Desarrollo. En este sentido con apoyos del BID y la OPS, Honduras ha comenzado a fortalecer y ampliar su estrategia de telemedicina y telesalud a nivel nacional. A nivel regional Otzoy explica la importancia de los socios estrat\u00e9gicos. \u201cNosotros tuvimos una reuni\u00f3n con la secretaria ejecutiva del consejo de ministros de salud de Centroam\u00e9rica, para presentarle el proyecto del \u00edndice global de salud digital gracias al apadrinamiento del grupo de gobierno digital\u201d. Adem\u00e1s, hay otros socios en la regi\u00f3n como la Agencia de Cooperaci\u00f3n Internacional de Estados Unidos o los mismo Centros de Control y Prevenci\u00f3n de Enfermedades de Estados Unidos, que cuentan con una oficina en Guatemala. De esta forma y en t\u00e9rminos generales, luego de la pandemia, Otzoy reconoci\u00f3 que hay esperanza en la regi\u00f3n de Centroam\u00e9rica para continuar y avanzar con la transformaci\u00f3n digital del sector salud. BIBLIOGRAF\u00cdA SNOMED https:\/\/www.snomed.org\/our-stakeholders\/member\/el-salvador<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,160,3394],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comunidades-conectadas","category-noticias","category-redes-sociales"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31490","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=31490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}