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Parliamentarians and PAHO agree to act urgently to achieve laws that support the digital transformation of the health sector
While COVID-19 causes disruptions and challenges in health systems around the world, the Health Commissions of the Parliaments of the Americas together with PAHO...
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Digital Health Technology in Suriname Being Used to Manage Patients in Remote Communities
With the support of a PAHO/WHO grant for Information Systems for Health (IS4H), a new solar-powered, web-based patient management information system has been developed by Medical Mission (MM)...
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Dominican Republic now has its first Cancer Registry unit
The Dominican Republic has inaugurated the first Cancer Registry unit, located in the Department of Health Sciences of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD), an important advance in...
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PAHO Launches Core Indicators 2019 in an event that highlights progress in Health Information Systems for Health
Core Indicators 2019: Health Trends in the Americas was launched in a side event of the 57th Directing Council of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau / Pan American Health...
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Suriname: Medical Mission Seeks to Secure Data Quality on Local and National Levels With a More Efficient Health Information System
Medical Mission Primary Health Care of Suriname has a project to improve data quality for evidence based decision making that seeks to develop and implement a web based routine...
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Trinidad and Tobago: Self-diagnostic tool for the secondary prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases among Trinbagonians
The University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT) is working on a project to provide evidence for preventative cardiovascular disease management using the web and mobile platforms...
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Guatemala wants to update and automate the Neonatal Maternal Mortality Surveillance Protocol
A project of the Ministry of Public Health and Social Assistance of Guatemala, which was one of the winners of the call for proposals for the implementation of IS4H...
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Suriname is Developing a National Surveillance System for Non Communicable Diseases and Risk Factors
A project from the Bureau of Public Health (BOG) of the Suriname Ministry of Health has as its main objective to identify variables for monitoring of the five most...
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The Dominican Republic is Developing a Interinstitutional Cancer Registry
The Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD) is carrying out a project to develop a Interinstitutional University Registry of Cancer (RUCI / UASD), which allows to estimate the incidence...
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Curaçao is developing electronic reporting on causes of death and communicable diseases
A project being developed by the Ministry of Health, Environment and Nature (HEN) of Curaçao is creating an electronic system that physicians and health care institutions can use for...
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Colombia will establish a comprehensive framework for knowledge management, terminology, and analytics for maternal health
A project being implemented by the Fundación Valle del Lili (FVL) aims to establish a comprehensive informatics monitoring framework for maternal health that will be created based on a...
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St. Vincent and the Grenadines is digitizing the Medical Records Department at the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital
The medical records system at the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital is antiquated and cumbersome...
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Nicaragua is strengthening the Laboratory Information Management System in the network of national epidemiological diagnostic laboratories
One of the main challenges for the health sector in Nicaragua is the integration of information from diagnostic laboratories with surveillance systems...
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In Mexico, information systems help in the elimination of malaria in the state of Campeche
To design a model of sustainable intersectoral action aimed at strengthening actions for the elimination of malaria in the state of Campeche, supported by a dynamic and open access...
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Colombia strengthens information systems to monitor compliance with the goals of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
A project to strengthen the system of monitoring and monitoring compliance with the national and territorial goals of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), described in the 2030 Agenda in...
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Argentina develops a strategy and action plan for the governance of data on Antimicrobial Resistance
A plan to develop a strategy and action plan for data governance that optimizes the surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) in the Argentine Republic was launched by the National...
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Panama will implement a platform for the registration and monitoring of health research protocols
In its National Health Policy 2016-2025, Panama established, among other points, to strengthen the National System of Research and Innovation for Health, with two very important provisions: to evaluate...
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Web application based on standards will help in the surveillance of social determinants of health in Peru
A project to design an electronic application with the potential of integration to electronic records was one of the winners of the call for proposals for the implementation of...
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The Caribbean Looks to Build Capacity on the OpenEHR Reference Model and Develop Specific Core Archetypes
Caribbean Member States and the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) are troubled by the lack of a standard or set of standards for health data and especially for transforming...
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Mexico develops a medical information coding system based on ICD-10 for morbidity
Since 2015, the General Directorate of Health Information of the Ministry of Health of Mexico, through the Mexican Center for Classification of Diseases, Collaborating Center of PAHO / WHO...
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In Honduras, information technologies will help in the diagnosis of heart conditions secondary to Chagas disease
A project presented by the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH) was one of the winners of the call for proposals for the implementation of IS4H projects promoted by...
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Ecuador will strengthen Health Information Systems by establishing the capacity for design and implementation of electronic clinical documents and management of interoperability standards in health
One of the winning projects of the call for proposals for the implementation of IS4H projects promoted by the Pan American Health Organization wants to endow the Ministry of...
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The Bio Bio Region of Chile will have a new tool for the management of mental health information in emergencies and disasters
A new project in Chile wants to improve the system for collecting and analyzing information on mental health in emergencies and disasters...
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On the British Virgin Islands, a Mobile Application for Detailed Investigation of Critical Communicable Diseases
The government of the British Virgin Islands requires that all private and public medical clinics, hospitals and other sentinel sites, complete and immediately report to the Ministry of Health...
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Brazil is creating an integrated open platform to monitor health outcomes, evaluate the effects of interventions, and forecast scenarios for SDGs
One of the winners of the call for proposals for the implementation of IS4H projects promoted by the Pan American Health Organization is a project from Brazil that is...
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Venezuela will use OpenEHR tools to develop modules of nominal load and consolidated load of morbidity, management of establishments and human talent
A project that was one of the winners of the call for proposals for the implementation of IS4H projects promoted by the Pan American Health Organization aims to develop...
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Project in San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina, implements registry, epidemiology and evaluation of information systems strategies and support for caregivers of cancer patients
In 2010, with the creation of the National Cancer Institute (INC), Argentina established the SIVER-Ca...
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Brazil develops application to improve the health of people with disabilities
A project that aims to develop and evaluate the implementation of an application for people with disabilities seeks to use innovative social information and communication technologies in the Brazilian...
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Colombian project will automate the processes of health situation analysis
Public Health Surveillance (Vigilancia en Salud Pública - VSP, in Spanish) is an essential competence of the Ministry of Health and Social Protection of Colombia (MSPS), whose general objective...
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Bolivia implements its Family Folder (Carpeta Familiar) in digital form
In the Plurinational State of Bolivia, the Family Folder is a mechanism developed to record the health status of Bolivian families and communities...
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Strengthened health information systems in Antigua and Barbuda are helping to combat HIV/AIDS, TB, and non-communicable diseases
The Ministry of Health of Antigua and Barbuda recognizes the importance of timely and accurate health data to guide decision-making on health policies, prioritization of health programs, and the...
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Greater collaboration and sharing of information can lead to improved healthcare and better outcomes in the Caribbean
The basis for improving healthcare and outcomes in the Caribbean involves greater collaboration and sharing of information...
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In Argentina, an open online system will make it easier to recover the expense of care given to patients with coverage
The municipal health system of the municipality of Córdoba, Argentina, has providers in the three levels of care...
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Cuba wants to use data from mobile phones to control outbreaks of tropical diseases
A project developed in the Faculty of Physics of the University of Havana, Cuba, wants to implement in that country an online platform that allows epidemiologists to have access...
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Plan of Action for Strengthening Information Systems for Health 2019-2023
The countries of the Region of the Americas have made substantial progress in improving information systems for health (IS4H)...
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Honduras develops smartphone application on comprehensive sexual education
In Honduras, the current policy on teenage pregnancy is aimed at preventing pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections...
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Uruguay will incorporate an infant mortality risk score to its Electronic Live Birth Certificate
The project "infant mortality risk score in Uruguay," one of the winning proposals of the call for proposals for the implementation of IS4H projects promoted by the Pan American...
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Technology will make vector control more efficient in the BVI island of Tortola
The Ministry of Health and Social Development of British Virgin Islands (BVI) will test the effectiveness of a data-based, community-driven vector control program...
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Paraguay strengthens the epidemiological surveillance system in rabies
A project of the National Zoonoses Control Program and the National Anti-Rabies Center of Paraguay was one of the winners of the call for proposals for the implementation of...
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Expansion of telemedicine in Guyana
Guyana has very few specialists in Internal medicine (IM) and Infectious diseases (ID), based primarily at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC)...
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Costa Rica will create a safe hospital monitoring system
Currently, Costa Rica does not have an automated system that allows capturing data from other systems to intelligently evaluate health services...
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One vision, multiple partners, one objective: Strengthen Information Systems in the countries
In the framework of the Health Information Systems initiative, launched by PAHO in collaboration with the Caribbean countries in 2016, several partners agreed to work together to strengthen national...
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A Changing Approach Towards a "Healthy Curaçao"
Curaçao's new vision of the Ministry of Health, Environment and Nature, 'A healthy Curaçao' refers to a healthy and safe living environment in which citizens are given equal chance...
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South American countries seek to implement IS4H policies
The experiences in terms of IS4H in the countries of South America are as diverse and heterogeneous as the countries of the region...
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Working to improve Information Systems for Health in Guyana
The Ministry of Public Health Guyana has recognized the importance of Information Systems for Health (IS4H) and its role in improving access to healthcare amidst much of the information...
