Sunday, September 8, 2024
The Brazilian Ministry of Health has begun the process of implementing a unified medical record, expanding its Meu SUS Digital app to facilitate access to health information, clinical history, test results, and more. The Ministry reports that the app has recorded in excess of 50 million downloads to date, with […]
The Argentinian Ministry of Health has launched a collaboration with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), with aims to optimise health work across the country and to strengthen “the common task to promote the improvement of health care”. The Federal Network of Quality in Health is housed in PAHO’s Virtual […]
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has urged the adoption of innovative technologies in the fight to eliminate tuberculosis (TB) across the Americas, with recent figures from 2023 showing an increase of 14 percent in the number of people falling ill with TB and an increase of 41 percent in […]
The WHO’s Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has shared news of a $5 million donation received from Japan for the Pan-American Highway for Digital Health Initiative, making the nation the initiative’s “first official donor”. The donation marks the joining of forces between the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Government […]
Guyana’s Ministry of Health has announced that it is currently evaluating 16 bids from organisations interested in designing, supplying, and installing a new electronic health record (EHR). This follows the Ministry’s publication of a request for proposals in September of 2023 for the EHR project, which will be funded by […]
