Latin America. The gaps of inequality in health that exist in Latin America represent a constant challenge for public and private initiative, which aim to meet the specific needs of developing countries through the synergy of inputs and more advanced infrastructure, with the search for more efficient health technologies that allow them to improve patient care.
Given this dynamic to obtain better and better technological tools, it is necessary to carry out a prior investigation so that the relationship between cost-benefit within the clinical area is safe and effective. For this reason, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), raises how it is that medical work through new experiences and technological initiatives, allow to improve the health situation in various countries, in this way a new approach of organization is created, of postulates and principles to solve current problems, but with a vision of the future; that is, without this implying forgetting the dynamics that characterize the process of health and disease.
In this sense, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have an important impact on the health sector, since thanks to their advances it has been achieved that the innovation of services allows the exchange of data to make diagnoses, perform treatments, prevent diseases and injuries, as well as for the permanent training of health professionals, in research and evaluation activities, as well as for the monitoring and evaluation of indicators for decision-making in public health.
To understand the requirements and possibilities that exist within health technologies, Francisco Fandiño, Managing Director Latin America at Barco, explains what are the specific characteristics that visualization solutions must meet according to the versatility of tasks that are required within the health sector, which must be attached to respond to these essential points.
1. Provide greater efficiency
It is essential for the activities of the health sector to be carried out with greater efficiency, to have visualization technologies that allow obtaining greater benefits in different areas, since advances in medicine undoubtedly become the impact of the treatment of various ailments, as well as timely detection.
In this sense, the expert refers to medical grade monitors such as the Coronis Uniti, in charge of carrying out the visualization and diagnosis of medical images. This type of technology improves image deployment through uniform brightness, ergonomic readability and automatic compliance with international medical norms and standards. Having technologies that are specifically designed to allow the visualization of images of several modalities on the same screen, offers the possibility of making parallel comparisons and image fusions at the moment without having to change monitors, which allows to facilitate the necessary procedures to optimize the visualization with a multimodal system.
2. Facilitate procedures
Another of the key points when choosing the right display technology, focuses on following the quality standards established worldwide, in this aspect, Barco's medical grade monitors meet requirements established by organizations in health, for the diagnosis of images, complying with medical norms and standards and with an unparalleled quality guarantee.
Barco's extensive range of high-precision display systems facilitates more accurate and efficient procedures for a range of medical disciplines, including radiology, mammography, surgery, dentistry and pathology.
"Through visualization with certified medical grade solutions, it is possible to obtain visible results with health professionals, with a more positive response and more efficient workflows in increasingly complex branches of health," explained the Barco expert.
Therefore, it is important when choosing the right equipment, that the ability they have to provide an optimal field of vision is taken into account, in order to maintain visual acuity with minimum effort.
3. Respond to any scenario
A model of comprehensive care in the health sector allows knowledge, science and technology to be placed in favor of medical centers, since it is a reality that in recent years new technologies have been evaluated and incorporated that in health systems represent greater agility for operations, as well as reducing costs, in addition to offering better and more personalized care, both physical and mental.
It is important that the vision towards the adoption of new technologies allows to boost productivity, simplify workflow and improve ergonomics for all areas within the health sector, which, given the complexity and continuous progress in health care entities, requires increasingly personalized diagnoses.
The transition path towards new scenarios where innovation is imminent, involves the consideration of saving time, money and resources through the automation of medical workflows, rigorous compliance with quality standards and international standards, as well as the creation of useful and detailed reports to find new ways of development, which becomes greater advantages in future medical practice.
Therefore, it is key that the incorporation of new health tools is considered the basic principle to strengthen existing systems, so that their integration allows the improvement in patient care and improvement in decision making, with a more complete panorama within the medical field. Therefore, considering an investment in visualization technologies must be made once the three points exposed to transform conventional health systems and constitute greater benefits towards the care of human life are given.
