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Thursday, 26 de April

Telemedicine, innovation and technology to health in Colombia

• Telemedicine takes force in Colombia to be a tool to treat patients remotely.
• The new system is called 'Tele-doctor' and is designed to facilitate users' attention by reducing costs, improving access to specialized health services and ensuring security.

Bogota, April 2012. In the framework of the International Health Fair -Meditech 2012- and show specialized Odontotech 2012, there were aconocer the latest developments in the field of telemedicine in Colombia, element increasingly implemented in hospitals and clinics worldwide, by have tools readily available to health professionals providing a better service to patients.

At the show was as telemedicine includes immediate diagnosis by a medical specialist in a particular area, assessing and assisting the patient from an inpatient facility, using telecommunications and catching up to make life easier for users.

The innovative system, which was presented at Meditech 2012, is called 'Tele-Doctor' and is designed exclusively for use in the practice of telemedicine.

'Tele - Doctor' is a tool implemented in 28 countries and over 100 health institutions worldwide. Meets the highest standards of quality and international protocol in booking information and enables effective long-distance diagnoses organizing and sending patient information with a unique real-time technology.

The benefits that a patient can get through this practice are several: the ability to be serviced from their home without having to be moved to another city, be monitored 24 hours a day by specialists at a distance, you can access your own medical records via the Internet, among others.

As an added value, telemedicine offers a conference whose main objective is to break boundaries and lead to discussion and meeting spaces for specialists.

Within the administrative area or operational telemedicine has also revolutionized digital storage of data or medical records to bring order to expedite clinical documents and internal processes.

On the other hand, education can also be strengthened to telemedicine because it can teach virtually simultaneously in several places in the e-learning system, which is aimed at medical students and nursing and the health sector in general.

Learn all about Meditech III 2012 in www.feriameditech.com