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Digital health in the Americas: advances and challenges in connected health
In 2005, all WHO Member States pledged to fight for universal health coverage (UHC). The availability of financial, human and technological resources seems to be necessary to develop efficient health policies and also to offer UHC. One of the main challenges facing the health sector comes from the n...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6073915/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30101033 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjinnov-2017-000258 |
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author | Novillo-Ortiz, David Dumit, Elsy Maria D’Agostino, Marcelo Becerra-Posada, Francisco Kelley, Edward Talbott Torrent-Sellens, Joan Jiménez-Zarco, Ana Saigí-Rubió, Francesc |
author_facet | Novillo-Ortiz, David Dumit, Elsy Maria D’Agostino, Marcelo Becerra-Posada, Francisco Kelley, Edward Talbott Torrent-Sellens, Joan Jiménez-Zarco, Ana Saigí-Rubió, Francesc |
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description | In 2005, all WHO Member States pledged to fight for universal health coverage (UHC). The availability of financial, human and technological resources seems to be necessary to develop efficient health policies and also to offer UHC. One of the main challenges facing the health sector comes from the need to innovate efficiently. The intense use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the health field evidences a notable improvement in results obtained by institutions, health professionals and patients, principally in developed countries. In the Americas, the relationship between economic development and health innovation is not particularly evident. Data from 19 of 35 countries surveyed in the 2015 Third Global Survey on eHealth for the region of the Americas were analysed. 52.6% of the countries of the Americas have a national policy or strategy for UHC. 57.9% of the countries in the sample indicate that they have a national eHealth policy or strategy, but only 26.3% have an entity that supervises the quality, safety and reliability regulations for mobile health applications. The survey data indicate that high-income and low-income to middle-income countries show higher percentages in relation to the existence of entities that promote innovation. These countries also exceed 60%—compared with 40% and 50% in lower-income countries—in all cases regarding the use of eHealth practices, such as mobile health, remote patient monitoring or telehealth. 100% of low-income countries report offering ICT training to healthcare professionals, compared with 83% of wealthy countries and 81% of middle-income to high-income countries. |
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spelling | pubmed-60739152018-08-09 Digital health in the Americas: advances and challenges in connected health Novillo-Ortiz, David Dumit, Elsy Maria D’Agostino, Marcelo Becerra-Posada, Francisco Kelley, Edward Talbott Torrent-Sellens, Joan Jiménez-Zarco, Ana Saigí-Rubió, Francesc BMJ Innov Health IT, systems and process innovations In 2005, all WHO Member States pledged to fight for universal health coverage (UHC). The availability of financial, human and technological resources seems to be necessary to develop efficient health policies and also to offer UHC. One of the main challenges facing the health sector comes from the need to innovate efficiently. The intense use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the health field evidences a notable improvement in results obtained by institutions, health professionals and patients, principally in developed countries. In the Americas, the relationship between economic development and health innovation is not particularly evident. Data from 19 of 35 countries surveyed in the 2015 Third Global Survey on eHealth for the region of the Americas were analysed. 52.6% of the countries of the Americas have a national policy or strategy for UHC. 57.9% of the countries in the sample indicate that they have a national eHealth policy or strategy, but only 26.3% have an entity that supervises the quality, safety and reliability regulations for mobile health applications. The survey data indicate that high-income and low-income to middle-income countries show higher percentages in relation to the existence of entities that promote innovation. These countries also exceed 60%—compared with 40% and 50% in lower-income countries—in all cases regarding the use of eHealth practices, such as mobile health, remote patient monitoring or telehealth. 100% of low-income countries report offering ICT training to healthcare professionals, compared with 83% of wealthy countries and 81% of middle-income to high-income countries. BMJ Publishing Group 2018-07 2018-05-26 /pmc/articles/PMC6073915/ /pubmed/30101033 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjinnov-2017-000258 Text en © Article author(s) (or their employer(s) unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2018. All rights reserved. No commercial use is permitted unless otherwise expressly granted. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt and build upon this work, for commercial use, provided the original work is properly cited. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
spellingShingle | Health IT, systems and process innovations Novillo-Ortiz, David Dumit, Elsy Maria D’Agostino, Marcelo Becerra-Posada, Francisco Kelley, Edward Talbott Torrent-Sellens, Joan Jiménez-Zarco, Ana Saigí-Rubió, Francesc Digital health in the Americas: advances and challenges in connected health |
title | Digital health in the Americas: advances and challenges in connected health |
title_full | Digital health in the Americas: advances and challenges in connected health |
title_fullStr | Digital health in the Americas: advances and challenges in connected health |
title_full_unstemmed | Digital health in the Americas: advances and challenges in connected health |
title_short | Digital health in the Americas: advances and challenges in connected health |
title_sort | digital health in the americas: advances and challenges in connected health |
topic | Health IT, systems and process innovations |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6073915/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30101033 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjinnov-2017-000258 |
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