The Government of the Mexican State of Colima, through its Department of Health and Wellbeing, shall provide a free transfer of its Health Record Administrative System (SAECCOL) to the Institute of Public Health of the State of Guanajuato (ISAPEG), which will serve more than three million citizens at 612 medical units run by the body.
For the provision of rights to use SAECCOL, the Secretary of Health of Colima, Agustín Lara Esqueda, and the Director General of ISAPEG, Francisco Ignacio Ortiz Aldana, signed a partnership agreement.
Guanajuato is the second state to acquire SAECCOL – the first was Coahuila – however, interest in adopting the system has been shown by the medical authorities of Aguascalientes, Hidalgo, México State, Yucatán, Oaxaca and Tlaxcala. It will soon also be implemented in the City of León.
According to Esqueda, the objective of the technological transfer, which is not meant for commercial use, is to fulfill the right to protection of patients’ personal data. On signing the agreement, the Secretary of Health of Colima anticipates that Guanajuato will have eight million health records, representing savings of 10 million Mexican pesos.
Professionals in Statistics and Informatics at the Department of Health and Social Wellbeing of Colima will train staff from ISAPEG in the use and installation of SAECCOL.
Source: Gobierno de Colima
