The aim is to achieve universal connectivity and interoperability to ensure that the entire ecosystem of medical applications can coexist and guarantee inclusive digital health, especially for vulnerable sectors, Leodan Vega, deputy director of the Center for Medical Informatics, stated.

The program will also ensure that human rights are transversal. Artificial intelligence is essential to improve and use the data collected efficiently.

Vega, who was quoted by Granma newspaper, noted that the working areas would be electronic medical records, mobile health care, telemedicine, teaching and research using information and communication technologies, infrastructure, standardization, interoperability, and legal and regulatory bases.

This year’s challenges are to implement the electronic medical record repository with new applications and essential records such as vaccination, deaths, the nephrology network, linked to the blood bank, and geolocation elements.

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