Healthcare

Through the platform, services such as teleconsultations, second opinion consultations, case discussion, tele-diagnosis, tele-assistance, among others, can be offered. Through the platform, services such as teleconsultations, second opinion consultations, case discussion, tele-diagnosis, tele-assistance, among others, can be offered. Photo: Albi

 On the road to the development of telemedicine in Cuba, the Defense Information Technology Enterprise (Xetid) is contributing with its own solutions to the implementation of the Virtual Hospital, a project associated with the Ministry of Communications' Sector Program for the Informatization of Society.

Yosney Hernández Hernández, Director of Xetid's basic digital industry unit, commented to Granma that Virtual Hospital is a platform under construction, based on a group of technologies already established at the national level, in which solutions from several entities converge, including inter-hospital and extra-hospital services.

“The idea is to make intensive use of information and communications technologies for healthcare,” he said.

He said that the objective of Xetid is the development of an IT platform in which each of the hospitals can have a cloud-based representation to interact, make requests, and plan and schedule telematic services.

He added that these services could include teleconsultations, second opinion consultations, case discussion, telediagnosis, tele-assistance, among others.

He pointed out that this would help to avoid the need for patients to travel for specialized consultations, from the first assessment to medical follow-up, which can be offered with services such as videoconferencing.

Likewise, it would contribute to inter-consultations between medical specialists at the primary, secondary and tertiary levels of healthcare.

He added that, although the platform is still being perfected, it already allows the generation of procedures associated with contracting, with the aim of creating a network of hospitals and interconnecting them.

Hernández pointed out that the platform will be integrated with the Galen Clínica software, developed by Softel, with Xavia His, from the Computer Sciences University, and the videoconferencing system for Telemedicine developed by Xetid, while mentioning the incorporation of the technologies of the Ticket platform in terms of Healthcare.

Xetid also signed two collaboration agreements with the Cira García International Clinic and La Pradera International Health Center for the implementation of virtual hospitals using the aforementioned technologies.

This system, said Katerin Ortega Rodríguez, Commercial Specialist of Xetid's basic digital industry unit, will serve to support the project for the doctor-patient or doctor-doctor relationship.