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Bibliomed - Brazil

Country

Brazil

Programme Summary

Bibliomed is one of the components of eHealth Latin America, an internet company devoted to integrating health services. Created in the United States, eHealth Latin America uses the Web to provide solutions to health system administration problems and related problems. The Bibliomed portal provides information on and education about how to develop the technology required to provide more effective care to patients and to the population at large. It is created for health professionals: doctors, nurses, dentists, psychologists, and all those interested in effective patient care and medical research, as well as in curing and eradicating disease and promoting health. Bibliomed.com is available in Spanish and in Portuguese.

Communication Strategies

For the purpose of helping professionals inform and care for their patients, Bibliomed offers its subscribers the possibility of creating their own website very simply and without need of any prior programming knowledge. In this manner, professionals may maintain better communications with their patients through a message centre, answer FAQs, facilitate scientific information that they have specifically selected, and take advantage of many other services. The tool is also meant to help them promote their professional practice and attract new patients.

Furthermore, this portal offers a health news service, updated daily, whose purpose is to provide a rapid means of informing health professionals about events related to their professional activities or their patients' well being. In addition, the portal offers daily news articles on issues of immediate use for professional practice based on critiques and abstracts of international publications. Finally, Bibliomed electronically reproduces medical reviews and publications.

Development Issues

Health, Technology.

Key Points

More than 360 schools of medicine, 40,000 medical teachers, and 400,000 medical students in Latin America belong to organisations with which Bibliomed.com has agreements. Bibliomed.com's academic and professional support is provided by organisations such as the American Association of Academic Health Centers, the Pan-American Federation of Schools of Medicine, national universities, professional medical organisations, national medical academies, and national and regional research centres.

Partners

Through Latin Healthcare Fund, Bibliomed.com has the strategic support and, in some cases, the active participation of companies such as Health South, United Health Care, Humana, Chase Capital Partners, and Inter-American Investment Corporation. In Latin America, the list of partners includes prepaid health organisations in Argentina and Brazil, more than 100 hospitals in México and Brazil, more than 75 diagnosis and reference centres in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, and more than 200 pharmacies in Brazil, Chile, and Peru.

Contact

Martin Gurria
Director, Project Development

Source

Bibliomed website accessed on March 3 2009.


Placed on the Communication Initiative site September 12 2002
Last Updated March 03 2009



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