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- ItemDigital health in the Americas: advances and challenges in connected health.(0000-00-00) Novillo-Ortiz, David; Dumit, Elsy Maria; D'Agostino, Marcelo; Becerra-Posada, Francisco; Kelley, Edward Talbott; Torrent-Sellens, Joan; Jiménez-Zarco, Ana; Saigí-Rubió, FrancescIn 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
- ItemThe Role of Digital Health to Support the Achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)(2018-05-14) Novillo-Ortiz, David; de Fátima Marin, Heimar; Saigí-Rubió, FrancescUnderp On September 2015 the 193 United Nations member states agreed to continue their progress towards the Millennium Development Goals MDG started in the year 2000 According to the World Health Organization WHO major challenges remain in terms of reducing maternal and child mortality and in the need to continue the fight against transmissible and chronic diseases including their risk factors It is also clear that work is still required on water sanitation and air quality as well as on continuing to strengthen health systems to achieve universal health coverage 1 All these challenges were included under the Sustainable Development Goals SDGs mainly under the goal 3 Ensure healthy lives and promote well being for all at all ages 2 Under p