Electronic Health Record in Bolivia and ICT: A Perspective for Latin America

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https://doi.org/10.9781/ijimai.2017.4412

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Software, Artificial Intelligence, ICT, Electronic Records

Abstract

The emergence of new technologies in society through its application to many areas and very diverse realities is a clear element in the time in which we live. The health sector has been unable to escape this reality and has been renovated many of its traditional structures with new options brought by the application of information technology and communication (ICT) in areas such as management and hospital administration. This paper focuses on analyzing from the point of view of medical diagnosis the importance of electronic medical records as a unifying element of the information essential for this type of diagnosis, and the use of artificial intelligence techniques in this field. To this end the current situation of electronic medical records is analyzed in a country like Bolivia exhaustively analyzing three of the most important health centers. Is used for this unstructured interview experts on the subject reflect the current status of electronic medical records from the point of view of protection of the right to privacy of individuals and will serve as a model for development, not only in Bolivia but also in other Latin American countries.

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Gil López, E. and Medinaceli Díaz K. (2017). Electronic Health Record in Bolivia and ICT: A Perspective for Latin America. International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence, 4(4), 96–101. https://doi.org/10.9781/ijimai.2017.4412