MADRID, 1 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -
The seventh edition of the 'Digital Health Case Studies' report from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) highlights the performance of the Bogotá Digital Health platform, developed and implemented by Minsait, an Indra company, for facilitating the unification of information systems of the health services of the Colombian capital.
In this sense, Bogotá became a pioneer by implementing the 'Onesait Healthcare Data' solution between 2017 and 2019, a Minsait project that bases its structure on interoperability and that centralizes the clinical information of patients from 22 public hospitals in the city. .
Thus, the Bogotá Salud Digital platform has already shown "positive results in terms of greater equity and accessibility" by allowing health organizations to have access to all medical records.
"Implementing the unified electronic medical record (HCEU) was born from the need to reduce the division and dispersion of information in the different entities of the health system, something that involved countless procedures for citizens, creating delays, lack of quality of service and an increase in cost," explained Minsait.
As a result, Minsait's platform integrated all of the patients' health information, such as medical reports, tests, medications, history or allergies, into a single database. In this way, this information is available to health professionals in real time in an "immediate, updated and permanent" manner.
Furthermore, to prevent patients from traveling first thing in the morning and facing long waiting times to request a medical appointment or at dispensing centers to access their medications, medication management was integrated into the interoperability solution. and medical formulas.
The 'Onesait Healthcare' solution has been "successfully" implemented, in addition to Bogotá, in other countries and regions of Latin America such as Chile or Brazil, as well as in several Spanish autonomous communities.
The HCEU brings together the information of more than one million people affiliated with the Public Health Promotion Entity, Capital Salud, and around 300,000 people related to other health entities, which represents about 12% of the city's population.
In this way, the Bogotá Salud Digital platform had 89% progress in the bidirectional exchange of information at the beginning of 2023 and aims to reach 95% by the end of the year.
Currently, the citizens of Bogotá do not have to travel to book a medical appointment and, as the medical prescription is recorded in the medical record, the information is generated so that the patient can claim their medication at the available point of care without having to travel in person. to obtain authorizations.
"Interoperability is one of the guiding principles of digital transformation and has already shown results in terms of greater equity and accessibility, by allowing health service providers to have easy access to medical records and this, for a city like Bogotá which is the most populated in Colombia, it is significant," said the director of Public Administrations of Minsait for the Andean Region and the Southern Cone, José Fernando Quintero.
"This technological solution improves the functioning of the public health system thanks to greater security and scalability, both in infrastructure and software, so that in the future it can be articulated with all health operators at the district and national level," added the subsidiary of Indra.
Likewise, by having accurate data and a specific vision of the patient, it provides continuity of care and strengthens decision-making and health care and, at the same time, reduces the time spent on administrative and control procedures.
