Jorge Vasconez-Gonzalez, Harold Alexander-León, Esteban Ortiz-Prado
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Digital health represents a tool that offers numerous advantages and facilitates various aspects of healthcare. Despite the considerable development and implementation of digital health in first-world countries, including the creation of various policies, third-world countries face a series of challenges in its implementation and development. These challenges include a lack of both economic and technological resources, as well as a shortage of policies related to its development and implementation. This article describes the approaches to digital health transformation in Ecuador, to what extent digital health has been developed in the country, the barriers present, and the benefits of its implementation.
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Journal of Medical Systems provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of the increasingly extensive applications of new systems techniques and methods in hospital clinic and physician''s office administration; pathology radiology and pharmaceutical delivery systems; medical records storage and retrieval; and ancillary patient-support systems. The journal publishes informative articles essays and studies across the entire scale of medical systems from large hospital programs to novel small-scale medical services. Education is an integral part of this amalgamation of sciences and selected articles are published in this area. Since existing medical systems are constantly being modified to fit particular circumstances and to solve specific problems the journal includes a special section devoted to status reports on current installations.
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