The fourth edition of ExpoHospital 2014 brought professionals, informatics experts and executives in the sector together with producers of health systems and IT solutions.
Demarka: Traceability, coding and identification bracelets
The Chilean company, in partnership with Motorola Solution and Zebra Technologies, presented the HC100 at the event, an anti-microbe bracelet printer that makes it possible to trace information about medications that have been administered.
“The healthcare market is quite attractive for traceability solutions. We have a department focused on the needs of each institution and develop solution packages that adapt to those needs,” said Francisco Santander, the company’s Head of Marketing.
Everis: HIS/Health Information System
Sebastián Domínguez Garrido, the Health Manager at Everis Chile, said that the multinational company had decided to attend the fair to introduce its Hospital Information System, ehCOS, to the country.
“We have a pretty innovative, modular product and that allows us to offer new technology that isn’t available in the current market,” Domínguez said, referring to Everis’ HIS.
He also said that the company -Latinamerican Healthcare IT Company of the Year- exhibited a complete process at ExpoHospital because customers need to see the system working with something close to a full work flow for medical care, be it in hospital or outpatient departments.
Finally, Domínguez announced that the company’s main objective is to take part in the SIDRA project.
GlobalMed Chile: Telemedicine, Teleconsults and Tests
Following a new framework agreement, the company is now a supplier to the Ministry of Health of Chile, for the national territory on the coast and in the interior and will soon reach Antarctica.
Marcelo Ramírez, Product Head for GlobalMed, explained that the company’s solutions are centralized but linked to different peripheral medical equipment, such as for example multipurpose cameras, ophthalmological scopes, stethoscopes, and otoscopes. He added: “We have a new generation of teleconsult platforms, new technology for videoconferencing and our star product continues to be the test, a device that allows us to bring medical facilities to remote areas, offering the possibility of carrying out examinations and transmitting them via our videoconferencing platforms or storing them for later study.”
iSalud: Online Supply Management
The Chilean company has developed an interoperable, modular and scalable line for clinics, medical centers and hospitals.
Pedro Soto, Commercial Assistant Manager at the firm, said: “Our solution is one hundred per cent web-based and works from the moment the order leaves a unit to payment, passing through purchase order, receipt, warehouse management, integration with the electronic invoice and publication of payments.”
InterSystems: Connected Healthcare and Strategic Interoperability
The company sees ExpoHospital as a shop window for its products. In fact, Luis Parsons, the manager of Business Development in the Sales Department has a maxim about this: “When a company comes to the fair, people notice. And when they don’t, people notice even more.”
According to Parsons, InterSystems’ objective is to improve people’s health. “I think that what we’re doing is important for healthcare. In Chile we are generally known for our clinical system, an electronic record that contains all the components of patient care, but our platform is pure database technology, administration tools and business information,” he explained.
MMRAD: Online medical reports and robotic arms
The company director, Luis Meneses Quiroz, stated that the company took part in the fair with two objectives:
1. To sell services providing online reports of medical exams.
2. To introduce the development of an ultrasound system with tele-commands, a robotic arm that can perform remote examinations.
“The robotic arm is at the prototype stage and we are looking for people who are interested in developing and certifying the product,” Meneses Quiroz explained.
Philips: Imageology and solutions for chronic patients
The multinational company presented two lines of products:
1. Imageology: tomograms, cardiovascular angiograms, magnetic resonance images, and direct digital radiology.
2. Solutions for chronic patients: non-invasive home ventilation for patients who need respiratory support; and the Dreams line, to treat apnea.
“At the fair one meets people who don’t go to the congresses, people who are in charge of product purchasing, who lead projects,” said María Marta Pérez, Account Executive at Philips Healthcare.
Saydex: BI/BA, Prospective indicators and an online portal
Juan Rodríguez, general manager at the company, which won the ICT Business Innovation Prize in 2013, explained that they decided to exhibit the new functions of applications that have already been released onto the market at ExpoHospital, for both the clinical sector and Primary Healthcare Centers.
“We are placing an emphasis on three lines and in each we have a contribution, a solution, an application and an informatics tool,” he said. The three lines Rodríguez is referring to are:
1. Business Intelligence/Business Analytics, which are related to the exploitation of data that can help to improve decision making and healthcare policies.
2. Prospective indicators, via VioSalud, a web tool that makes it possible to graphically visualize data from the emergency and outpatient departments in real time.
3. Democratization of information via the Mi Salud portal, a web solution that makes Personal Electronic Health Records available online so that people can access their medical data easily and securely.
“We believe that what we have, the things we control, should always be improving, so we keep working on improving our things, with close links to public health. Since the middle of last year, we have been extending our relationships with research organizations and universities and setting up the Saydex Grant.”
Telefónica: CDM, RPM, Telemedicine and Imageology
The Chilean vertical of the multinational company recently restructured a working group dedicated to Healthcare and presented four solutions:
1. Care Demand Management (CDM), which makes it possible to schedule medical appointments and is aimed at ending queues at health centers. Through this system, the citizen is empowered to schedule a medical appointment.
2. Remote Patient Management (RPM), which gathers information recorded at the homes of patients who are set up for remote monitoring. This is generally aimed at treating patients with chronic diseases.
3. Telemedicine, which makes it possible to carry out medical consults and inter-consults, remotely. Although the solution is being worked on in a decentralized manner, the company is hoping to take on a national project.
4. Imageology, which manages and centralizes medical images in the cloud and makes it possible to link “n” number of radiologists with “n” number of healthcare institutions.
Nicolás Giordano, Assistant Manager for Digital Solutions in the Healthcare Department, noted the social impact of the products: “CDM has good penetration in municipalities, and we are currently working with almost ten municipalities throughout Chile; in the Comuna de Loprado, for example, where we have managed to practically eliminate queues at surgeries. For adults and elderly people, where people generally turn up sick, the waiting room is a significant source of contamination. So we make it possible not just to provide a better service to citizens but also to avoid the spread of infections.”
Vidal Vademecum Internacional: Pharmacological Information and Pharmao-therapeutic Guides
The leading company in pharmacological information took part in the fair to show the solutions that are available in the Chilean market and what products have already been implemented:
1. Consult, a web application that allows healthcare professionals to consult pharmacological information and access medication references. It includes access to foreign equivalents to medications, personalization of information about medications and management of each hospital’s pharmaco-therapeutic guide.
2. Integrated, an informatics solution designed for hospitals and primary care centers that makes it possible to access all the Vidal Vademecum modules.
Paul Bonnet, the Director General of the company, explained that there is an information locator for each market: “Our nucleus is clinical information, i.e.: the effects, side-effects and allergies of each medication. All this information is prepared at a generic level without commercial brands, so what we do is to gather the clinical information for commercial brands approved by the National Medication Agency.”
Web MHC SA Argentina: HIS for export
The company has a strong presence in the Argentinian market and, seeking to expand its business, visited the fair to seal strategic partnerships in Chile.
“We came to present the MHO, which is the company’s HIS, because we decided that it was time to start crossing new boundaries,” said Andrés Roberto Arbor, the general manager of Web MHC. He added: “This system is completely web-based, interoperable, modular, scalable and robust. It is also set up into three layers.”
