While COVID-19 causes disruptions and challenges in health systems around the world, the Health Commissions of the Parliaments of the Americas together with PAHO...
With the support of a PAHO/WHO grant for Information Systems for Health (IS4H), a new solar-powered, web-based patient management information system has been developed by Medical Mission (MM)...
The Dominican Republic has inaugurated the first Cancer Registry unit, located in the Department of Health Sciences of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD), an important advance in...
Core Indicators 2019: Health Trends in the Americas was launched in a side event of the 57th Directing Council of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau / Pan American Health...
Medical Mission Primary Health Care of Suriname has a project to improve data quality for evidence based decision making that seeks to develop and implement a web based routine...
The University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT) is working on a project to provide evidence for preventative cardiovascular disease management using the web and mobile platforms...
A project of the Ministry of Public Health and Social Assistance of Guatemala, which was one of the winners of the call for proposals for the implementation of IS4H...
A project from the Bureau of Public Health (BOG) of the Suriname Ministry of Health has as its main objective to identify variables for monitoring of the five most...
The Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD) is carrying out a project to develop a Interinstitutional University Registry of Cancer (RUCI / UASD), which allows to estimate the incidence...
A project being developed by the Ministry of Health, Environment and Nature (HEN) of Curaçao is creating an electronic system that physicians and health care institutions can use for...
A project being implemented by the Fundación Valle del Lili (FVL) aims to establish a comprehensive informatics monitoring framework for maternal health that will be created based on a...
The medical records system at the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital is antiquated and cumbersome...
One of the main challenges for the health sector in Nicaragua is the integration of information from diagnostic laboratories with surveillance systems...
To design a model of sustainable intersectoral action aimed at strengthening actions for the elimination of malaria in the state of Campeche, supported by a dynamic and open access...
A project to strengthen the system of monitoring and monitoring compliance with the national and territorial goals of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), described in the 2030 Agenda in...
A plan to develop a strategy and action plan for data governance that optimizes the surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) in the Argentine Republic was launched by the National...
In its National Health Policy 2016-2025, Panama established, among other points, to strengthen the National System of Research and Innovation for Health, with two very important provisions: to evaluate...
A project to design an electronic application with the potential of integration to electronic records was one of the winners of the call for proposals for the implementation of...
Caribbean Member States and the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) are troubled by the lack of a standard or set of standards for health data and especially for transforming...
Since 2015, the General Directorate of Health Information of the Ministry of Health of Mexico, through the Mexican Center for Classification of Diseases, Collaborating Center of PAHO / WHO...
A project presented by the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH) was one of the winners of the call for proposals for the implementation of IS4H projects promoted by...
One of the winning projects of the call for proposals for the implementation of IS4H projects promoted by the Pan American Health Organization wants to endow the Ministry of...
A new project in Chile wants to improve the system for collecting and analyzing information on mental health in emergencies and disasters...
The government of the British Virgin Islands requires that all private and public medical clinics, hospitals and other sentinel sites, complete and immediately report to the Ministry of Health...
One of the winners of the call for proposals for the implementation of IS4H projects promoted by the Pan American Health Organization is a project from Brazil that is...
A project that was one of the winners of the call for proposals for the implementation of IS4H projects promoted by the Pan American Health Organization aims to develop...
In 2010, with the creation of the National Cancer Institute (INC), Argentina established the SIVER-Ca...
A project that aims to develop and evaluate the implementation of an application for people with disabilities seeks to use innovative social information and communication technologies in the Brazilian...
Public Health Surveillance (Vigilancia en Salud Pública - VSP, in Spanish) is an essential competence of the Ministry of Health and Social Protection of Colombia (MSPS), whose general objective...
In the Plurinational State of Bolivia, the Family Folder is a mechanism developed to record the health status of Bolivian families and communities...
The Ministry of Health of Antigua and Barbuda recognizes the importance of timely and accurate health data to guide decision-making on health policies, prioritization of health programs, and the...
The basis for improving healthcare and outcomes in the Caribbean involves greater collaboration and sharing of information...
The municipal health system of the municipality of Córdoba, Argentina, has providers in the three levels of care...
A project developed in the Faculty of Physics of the University of Havana, Cuba, wants to implement in that country an online platform that allows epidemiologists to have access...
The countries of the Region of the Americas have made substantial progress in improving information systems for health (IS4H)...
In Honduras, the current policy on teenage pregnancy is aimed at preventing pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections...
The project "infant mortality risk score in Uruguay," one of the winning proposals of the call for proposals for the implementation of IS4H projects promoted by the Pan American...
The Ministry of Health and Social Development of British Virgin Islands (BVI) will test the effectiveness of a data-based, community-driven vector control program...
A project of the National Zoonoses Control Program and the National Anti-Rabies Center of Paraguay was one of the winners of the call for proposals for the implementation of...
Guyana has very few specialists in Internal medicine (IM) and Infectious diseases (ID), based primarily at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC)...
Currently, Costa Rica does not have an automated system that allows capturing data from other systems to intelligently evaluate health services...
In the framework of the Health Information Systems initiative, launched by PAHO in collaboration with the Caribbean countries in 2016, several partners agreed to work together to strengthen national...
Curaçao's new vision of the Ministry of Health, Environment and Nature, 'A healthy Curaçao' refers to a healthy and safe living environment in which citizens are given equal chance...
The experiences in terms of IS4H in the countries of South America are as diverse and heterogeneous as the countries of the region...
The Ministry of Public Health Guyana has recognized the importance of Information Systems for Health (IS4H) and its role in improving access to healthcare amidst much of the information...