The application of a single electronic record useful in any clinic begins

Angeles Cruz Martínez

La Jornada Newspaper
Wednesday, November 6, 2024, p. 13

When a worker loses his formal job and the right to the services of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) or the other way around (when he gets a job and is affiliated with Social Security), three or more months may pass before being able to continue with his treatments. doctors, which puts their health and life at risk, especially if it is cancer, HIV/AIDS or some other complex illness. It is an old problem that medical personnel have reported without success

Now a real solution is offered with the launch of a single platform for the electronic clinical record, to which the various public health organizations will have access, stated medical specialists in reference to the announcement made yesterday at the National Palace, where the director of the IMSS, Zoé Robledo, reported that the computer system developed by that organization will be shared with the rest of the health institutions.

According to this information, users of medical services will have a single clinical record that can be consulted in any clinic or hospital to which they go to receive care, regardless of their employment status. For specialists it is a great news which they hope will be realized as soon as possible to end the current obstacles in medical units of the Ministry of Health (Ssa). People who recently lost social security appear in the electronic system as affiliated with the IMSS and, therefore, do not qualify for free care, particularly in the national health institutes and federal hospitals.

It is not possible to open a fileunless they cover the financial contribution provided for social security beneficiaries, but for someone who has lost their job it is not possible either, some doctors commented.

Until they are removed from the database, they can receive medical care. The problem is with serious diseases like cancer because You cannot waste time waiting and have the disease continue to progress and by the time treatments are resumed, more expensive procedures may be required or, due to the progression of the tumor, the possibilities of stopping it may be reduced.

In the opposite case, when patients find formal employment, due to the lack of communication between institutions, months also pass before therapies are resumed in the IMSS. And, in the institute there are procedures that must be followed, among others, that the employer registers the patient with Social Security. After you go to the Family Medicine Unit (FMU), where the doctor generally must perform laboratory studies and with the results, issue the referral to the second or third level of care.

By then, the specialists commented, It’s been two to three monthsdepending on the Family Medicine Unit in question.

Therefore, the experts pointed out, the creation of a single electronic clinical record platform in health institutions is very good news.