On the morning of this Wednesday, the Social Legislation Commission met with the invitation of the Minister of Health, Mario Kohan, to discuss two projects that were favorably ruled by a majority, setting a position in the room by a minority.
The first had to do with the Framework Agreement of Adhesion, Cooperation and Collaboration with the Bank of Special Drugs and its Annex, signed between the Ministries of Health of the Nation and the province.
The second of the initiatives of the Executive Power that was discussed was the one that regulates the Provincial System of Single Digital Clinical History and the Telemedicine System in the province of La Pampa.
In his presentation, Minister Kohan expressed the importance of having a Telemedicine law: “It is an instrument that extends rights in the search to offer speed in treatments.” And he maintained: “If the medicine is not opportune in time, it is not an efficient medicine.”
“When I was summoned to start my job at the Ministry, we began to work with telemedicine, but now it is important that there is a law to strengthen this practice,” said the minister.
In turn, Kohan stressed that this law will help to have a more equitable health system. “We have a province with a significant territorial extension and low population density, this obviously makes it impossible to have specialized doctors in each point. Today a clinical doctor, wherever he is, has the support of all specialist doctors and that is thanks to telemedicine. In this way we expand the resolution capacity”, said the official.
In this sense, he stressed that the State has the possibility of having more professionals without resorting to an increase in staff. “This means very large savings for the province,” he said.
Later, he was asked about the connectivity and infrastructure that La Pampa has to apply telemedicine. To this, Kohan responded: “The province has come a long way in connectivity and continues to do so. Telemedicine does not require great technology, in fact we can solve situations through a cell phone”.
He was also consulted on the implementation of the digital prescription. Kohan noted that “85% of prescriptions are digital today. We are in a total digitization process.”
Finally, he stressed that through the digital medical record “we will have an enrichment of information, always applying the care of that information.”