PAHO/WHO Proposal: Strategy and Plan of Action on eHealth
Pan American Health Organization/ World Health Organization
148th SESSION OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Washington, D.C., USA, 20-24 June 2011
148th SESSION OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Washington, D.C., USA, 20-24 June 2011
Annex C page 2
Human rights, universality, access, and inclusion. The Constitution of the World Health Organization states that “enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being without the distinction of race, religion, political belief, economic or social condition.” In order to make this right a reality, the countries of the Region should work toward achieving universality, access, integrity, quality, and inclusion in health systems, which in turn should be accountable to citizens for the degree to which they achieve these
ends.
Equity in health. The search for equity in health is manifested in the effort to eliminate all health inequalities that are avoidable, unjust, and remediable among populations or groups. This search should emphasize the essential need for promoting gender equity in health.
Annex C page 4
Best practices in this area and examples from countries within the Region of the Americas:
• According to estimates, in 2010, 47% of the countries in the Region had eHealth policies in place.
• Some countries, Canada, Mexico, Peru, and the United States among them, have made significant
progress in eHealth and have future eHealth projects on their agendas.
• Based on the Third Ministerial Conference on the Information Society in Latin America and the
Caribbean (Lima, 21-23 November 2010), some examples of eHealth best practices include:
o Argentina’s Ministry of Health administers a network connecting 43 hospitals and is also working on telemedicine projects.
o Brazil has a national network connecting 57 hospitals and providing infrastructure, education, research, and integration support.
o Costa Rica has developed initiatives linked to consultations with specialists and emergencies.
o Jamaica has carried out telemedicine projects in medical specialty areas such as dermatology,oncology, psychiatry, and home medical services.
o Mexico is working to implement a electronic medical records program between 2007 and 2012,and has regulations in place governing the use of auxiliary electronic media for the storage of health data.
o Panama has been working with telemedicine in rural areas.
o Trinidad and Tobago has a program for access to free medication, in which some 40,000 chronic disease patients participate.
o The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has a system of standardized medical records that use free software platforms.
From: Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC) <ruglucia@paho.org>
Date: 2011/5/25
Subject: PAHO/WHO Proposal: Strategy and Plan of Action on eHealth
To: IKM-SHARING@listserv.paho.org
PAHO/WHO Proposal: Strategy and Plan of Action on eHealth
Pan American Health Organization/ World Health Organization
148th SESSION OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Washington, D.C., USA, 20-24 June 2011
148th SESSION OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Washington, D.C., USA, 20-24 June 2011
“………In Latin America and the Caribbean considerable inequalities persist in access to health services, owing to a series of factors that limit the possibilities of receiving timely quality medical care. These factors include insufficient human and infrastructure resources, lack of equipment and drugs, the physical and cultural distance between the services and the population that needs them, and low incomes. Hence, income level, geographical location, and ethnic origin are the determinants of the vulnerability and exclusion of millions of households in the Region …..
The objective of the eHealth Strategy and Plan of Action is to help ensure the sustainable development of the Member States’ health systems. Adoption of the eHealth Strategy and Plan of Action is envisaged as a means of improving health services access and quality, based on the use of information and communications technologies (ICTs), the development of digital literacy and ICTs, and the use of various methods. This will facilitate progress toward the goal of societies that are more informed, equitable, competitive, and democratic. In such societies access to health information is considered a basic right of the people.
This strategy is based on Resolution WHA58.28 (2005) of the World Health Organization (WHO), adopted at the Fifty-Eighth World Health Assembly, which established the linchpins of the WHO eHealth Strategy ….”
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