Latin American Healthcare Network

MedNET aims to establish a collaborative framework with counterparts in Latin America (Brazil and Peru) to promulgate access in underserved regions of Latin America to efficient, cost effective, high level and high quality medical resources.

The proposed healthcare database and medical platform will directly impact on patient safety by enhancing clinical services and improving the primary healthcare in the pilot locations. This will be achieved through advanced diagnosis and treatment methods, efficient collection and sharing of data on treatment outcomes and patient demographics and collaborative medical research.

This system effectively embeds European medical protocol and standards for medical information exchange, storing and representation and, given the fledgling nature of electronic Health Records in the targeted regions, will support diffusion in the wider up-take of electronic European standards.

Counterparts from Latin America will be directly involved in the adaptation and customization of the medical platform. Additionally, MedNET will establish a collaboration framework conducive to the development of e-Health in the region through a dissemination and exploitation plan that sets out to identify and engage with stakeholders through a series of meetings, showcases, workshops and conferences.

The pilot study locations will be connected over satellite communication based on DVB-RCS protocol utilizing the European AmerHis system. This will both enhance the medical network, in terms of add-on components, scalability and reliability, and provide opportunities to exploit the network infrastructure by developing platforms for education and commerce.

Summarizing, MedNET aims to:
 

• Transfer knowledge from Europe to Latin America.



 
• Patient safety. MedNET will provide physicians with a tool to follow the patient health status, and provide in a very short time, medical advices, consulting expert physicians in urban cities.



 
• Electronic health records. The medical application used enables a medical database, following openEHR. Within MedNET we are going to extend the current EHR meeting user requirement.



 
• Promotion of the European medical standards. European medical standards for medical information storing, exchange and representation are supported. A central medical repository will be developed for storing patient’s demographic information, medication prescription, haematological and imaging examinations (ultrasound examination).



 

More information:

http://www.e-mednet.com