A $6 million IDB loan will help expand the National Electronic Medical Records platform and boost data use for patient management
Uruguay will improve the e-government management of healthcare services in the areas of prevention and early treatment of noncommunicable chronic diseases with a $6 million loan approved by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
The operation, part of a conditional credit line for investment projects, will improve the quality of interoperable data of the National Electronic Medical Records (HCEN, after its Spanish initials), the utilization of this data for patient management, and health and assistance goals’ monitoring.
Use and enhancement of the HCEN platform will contribute to improve both direct healthcare assistance and decision-making. This platform, which has been developed with support from the first two operations of the conditional credit line for investment projects, has proved to be a valuable tool in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, helping produce quick responses by supplying centralized records on patients and on health services required to tackle the disease.
The project will improve the structured data stored in the HCEN platform and will also have new functionalities aimed at providing better disease prevention and treatment services. These include a nationwide medicine prescription and supply management system and the design of a medical information structure catalog system.
Other plans include implementing a promotion strategy and adopting a cybersecurity reference framework for the use of a minimum structured data set for the platform. The project also contemplates financing the design and implementation of a promotion and adoption strategy for a minimum structured data set in the electronic medical records, and the implementation of projects aimed at boosting the digital capabilities of healthcare providers and of other activities within the digital healthcare ecosystem.
The $6 million IDB loan is for a 25-year term, with a 5-year period of grace, and an interest rate based on LIBOR. Uruguay will provide $1.35 million in local counterpart funds.
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