The Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare of Guatemala worked together with PAHO/WHO to define the priority areas at the national level in the field of eHealth, by holding an event on 16 May 2013 at the headquarters of the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation in the City of Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala.
The ministry of health of Argentina together with the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization launched a digital literacy program for national health institutions so that they can access new information and communication technologies. The objective of the program is to strengthen the individual and collective capacities of all health institutions and personnel...
By Dr. Gabriel E. Yedlin
Argentina currently has a high level of technology penetration. The National Census and Statistics Institute estimates that three out of four residents of urban households use cell phones and more than half use a computer and the Internet. Argentina is also the country that devotes the most time to social networking sites at the global level. One of the challenges the country faces today is to ensure that this context continues to benefit public health...
A group of experts presented a proposal for indicators to measure access and use of information and communication technologies in the health sector during the Statistical Conference of the Americas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, held 15-16 April in Santiago, Chile.
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