Gran Hospital de Coronel Oviedo will be the first 100% digital hospital in the country

Asuncion, IP Agency.- Health Minister María Teresa Barán stressed that the Coronel Oviedo Hospital, which is expected to be open before the end of the year, will be the first highly complex hospital outside of the Central department and the first to use a 100% digital system.

This will be possible thanks to the implementation of the Health Information System (HIS), which allows the exchange of information between different health units.

Since the beginning of the current administration, the installation of this system in health centers has been accelerated, reaching 40% of services today. The minister indicated that the implementation of the HIS is a high priority and in less than a year it was installed in 286 hospitals and medical centers, as opposed to the 217 services where it was installed between 2017 and 2023.

This information system allows the Ministry to have in real time the number of consultations, the prescribed medicines, and the professionals in activity.

“We can have the traceability of consultations, we can have the traceability of supplies and medicines and, why not say it, probably, for the first time in the history of Paraguay we will be able to have a real budget of the needs that exist,” said Barán in an interview with Paraguay TV.

This will allow the Hospital of Coronel Oviedo, one of the large hospitals built by the Government together with the one in Encarnación, to be 100% digital and not use paper for clinical records and other things.