After the presentation from the President of the Health Commission, Karla Schaefer (GPF), the law to create a National Register of Electronic Health Records was approved with 87 votes in favor and four abstentions.
This regulation seeks to modernize care at every medical center in the country and to make it more flexible, thus avoiding the duplication and loss of tests. The electronic system will make it possible to create an interconnected national registry via the Ministry of Health and the National Registry of Identification and Civil Status (Reniec).
Congresswoman Schaefer said that her commission presented the bill based on projects presented by the Gana Peru Nationalist Parliamentary Group, Nacional Solidaridad and the Fujimorista Parliamentary Group, led by the legislators Josué Gutiérrez (NGP), Gustavo Rondón (SN) and Pedro Spadaro (GPF).
During the debate the importance of the initiative was emphasized by several congressmen including Spadaro, Gutiérrez, Rondón, Jaime Delgado (NGP), Segundo Tapia (GPF), Enrique Wong (APGC), Teófilo Gamarra (NGP), Cristóbal Llatas (NGP), Rosa Mavila (AP-FA), César Yrupailla (NGP), Ángel Neyra (GPF), Elsa Anicama (NGP), Jorge Rimarachín (AP-FA), Mesías Guevara (AP-FA), Luis Iberico (APGC) and Fernando Andrade (GPPP).
Congressman Martín Belaunde (SN) expressed his opposition, saying that it could endanger the confidentiality of patient information. He went on to argue that he believed that each health center should be computerized but not a national registry.
Source: Perú Informa
