HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS AS A PRIMARY COMPONENT IN TELEMEDICINE

LOS SISTEMAS DE INFORMACIÓN EN SALUD COMO COMPONENTE PRIMARIO EN LA TELEMEDICINA

Abstract

The application of these systems in telemedicine supported by Clinical Support Systems for Computerized Decision Making, would provide a solution to the long waiting periods suffered by many patients with easily resolved conditions and at the same time allow them to create medical records that later they could be used to compile your medical history. The dissimilar advantages of the use of these systems and their implementations in the Cuban Health Systems beyond the medical centers themselves, to the patients' homes, is a possible solution for some of the problems of our medical systems that today more than they never demand efficiency and security in their procedures. Being of great importance in health systems, where due to the potentialities offered in medical care, distance education and scientific research, it is necessary to deepen its definition, field of action, its importance and the need to develop new techniques that allow it to be implemented in function of a better society. At the same time, supporting its dissemination among students and professionals of Medical Sciences becomes a necessity, with a view to guaranteeing that a greater percentage of professional.