Description of Session
Since 2013, Central American Health Informatics Network (RECAINSA), a network integrated by volunteers and health sector professionals, has been seeking to open spaces of exchange for experiences and good practices in Digital Health in Central America, working with key actors of public and private sectors, Academy and agencies for international development to improve National eHealth governance through promoting the necessity of legal and strategic frameworks and the creation of spaces for health professionals’ formation in Digital Health matters as well. The gap in digital health is still big in most of the countries compared with advances in other regions of Latin America, but there are some significant advances in some countries like Costa Rica, El Salvador and Panama, that are currently implementing national projects of Electronic Medical Records, Tele-medicine, among others, and they are a reference for the rest of the countries in the region. In this session, we will present the most relevant projects in Digital Health and we will analyze the key factors of success they have had and the learned lessons to date. We will project main challenges for this countries and Central America overall. The methodology used for this presentation is based on analysis and synthesizing of interviews with members of RECAINSA, those who are participating direct or indirectly in these projects and the information obtained from available sources.
