La pandemia de COVID-19 demostró la centralidad de la salud de la población para las economías y el bienestar social, a la vez que evidenció serios problemas estructurales de larga data en los sistemas sanitarios. En América Latina y el Caribe (ALC), se destacaron serias deficiencias en dimensiones básicas como calidad, resultados, costos y equidad. Hoy, los países deben gestionar la complejidad cada vez mayor de sus sistemas sanitarios mientras hacen frente a una crisis económica sin precedentes. Este documento aborda cada aspecto del proceso de TD, comparte evidencia, prácticas y recomendaciones concretas, identifica el conjunto de actores que pueden y deben participar y delinea los elementos prácticos necesarios para que cada país pueda construir esta crucial trayectoria.
The Social Protection and Health (SPH) Division of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) held its annual Regional Policy Dialogue (RPD) Digital Health for All: Latin America and the Caribbeans golden opportunity to improve the efficiency, quality and equity of sector on September 12-14th 2022 in Panama City, Panama. The RPD brought together over 120 participants, including leaders from over 20 countries, vice-ministers of health and directors of technology and communications, and regional and global experts in digital health. The meeting sought to provide a setting to discuss what the IDB and different countries have learned in the past four years of implementation of digital health, structural challenges to scale digital health, and the measures needed to ensure that decisions made today are both sustainable and transformational. The meetings objectives broadly included discussing three topics: 1) how to ensure that digital health adds value in terms of improved efficiency, quality, and equity;2) policy considerations for linking digital health to health outcomes; and3) the future state of our region in terms of digital transformation of the health sector.This report provides an overview of the meeting, its main findings, and the steps that lie ahead on this journey.
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