Three cities and municipalities in the country will inaugurate a new technique to care for patients with high-risk diseases such as diabetes, epilepsy and various types of cardiovascular diseases.
It is a series of applications that, according to the experts, will allow hospitals, EPS, IPS, treating physicians and users to have all the clinical history of patients at hand.
Likewise, “it will reduce red tape and allow immediate medical advice 24 hours a day, seven days a week,” said the 2030 Health Movement in a statement.
Said group of expert doctors explained that the applications can be downloaded to any cell phone and were developed by entrepreneurs from Medellín and Manizales.
How does it work?
As detailed by the expert Johny Fernández López, spokesperson for Docty, one of the companies that developed the application, “if a patient shows symptoms of possible diabetes in the application an alert will be generated, and the EPS or IPS will contact you to confirm the symptoms and immediately order the tests and if any test goes wrong, the orders for the following tests will automatically arrive without the user going to the doctor”.
After these steps, the doctor and the user will be able to monitor the controls and medications that have been assigned for treatment.
For now, the pilot plan for these applications is being implemented in Bogotá with patients from the Roosevelt Institute; in Cúcuta with IPS Pronorte and in Baranoa, Atlántico, with IPS Promocosta.
The Health 2030 Movement is a group led at a global level by Roche and the Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies, which seeks to bring together leaders from the health, government and private sectors in order to identify synergies, make strategic alliances and promote projects of entrepreneurs and professionals to develop innovative solutions and facilitate access to health in the countries where it is present.
Currently nine countries in the region are part of this initiative in Latin America: Colombia, Uruguay, Brazil, Costa Rica, Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Mexico. And it is opening operations in 5 other regions of the world.