Thursday, July 15, 2021

Value of pre-pandemic health platforms in teleconsultation era

Behind the explosion of online medical consultations, the actual support is the clinical management platform behind them, a field in which advanced local developments already existed in Argentina before March 2020. Several of them are the base structure of provincial systems and they coexist with the one created by the national Ministry of Health, with the permanent challenge of interoperating with each other.

Due to its nature as a cancer center, Alexander Fleming Institute did not contemplate incurring telemedicine. The close relationship with the patient and the need for containment were not conceived transferred to a virtual environment. Even in a case like this, the turn towards teleconsultations was a forced step due to the restrictions on circulation, and now, with the learning of the pandemic brought as a heavy load, the entity decided to adopt the new modality. Indeed, 35% of inquiries are made virtually. 

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