Telemedicine in Peru: origin, implementation, pandemic escalation, and prospects in the new normal

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dc.contributor.authorRees, Gareth H.
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-08T14:45:46Z
dc.date.available2024-07-08T14:45:46Z
dc.date.issued2024-01-12
dc.description.abstractFor many countries telemedicine was speedily adopted as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, though for some countries telemedicine may have been implemented in a context of limited regulations or few plans or strategies to scale quickly. This article recounts how telemedicine was developed in Peru as a measure to support the country's Universal Health Coverage and service access to rural and locations with low workforce numbers and its deployment. From a range of data, we find that Peru's development of telehealth began before the pandemic, which by 2020 was sufficient to be able to foster a rapid and wider deployment and while the telemedicine service volumes quickly grew from the pandemic onset, these numbers then begin to reduce suggesting that telemedicine was considered more as a pandemic emergency measure rather than a change to the mix of health provision. From these data we offer two lessons, (i) that Peru's preparedness in terms of telemedicine policy and regulation were helpful to rapidly expand telemedicine at a time of necessity and (ii) that due to this investment and with a better understanding, Peru now has a short-run window of opportunity for the Peruvian Government to continue its regulatory development and investment to further deploy telemedicine services as a UHC improvement measure and to better align the health system to the country’s health needs.en_EN
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dc.identifier.citationRees, G. H., Peralta, F. (2024). Telemedicine in Peru: origin, implementation, pandemic escalation, and prospects in the new normal. Oxford Open Digital Health, 2, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1093/oodh/oqae002
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1093/oodh/oqae002
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12640/4015
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherOxford University Press
dc.publisher.countryUK
dc.relation.ispartofurn:issn:2754-4591
dc.relation.urihttps://academic.oup.com/oodh/article-pdf/doi/10.1093/oodh/oqae002/56613156/oqae002.pdf
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International*
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess*
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectDigital Healthen_EN
dc.subjectTelemedicineen_EN
dc.subjectSalud Digitales_ES
dc.subjectPeruen_EN
dc.subjectTelemedicinaes_ES
dc.subjectUniversal Health Coverageen_EN
dc.subjectPerúes_ES
dc.subjectCobertura Universal de Saludes_ES
dc.subjectService developmenten_EN
dc.subjectDesarrollo de servicioses_ES
dc.subject.ocdehttps://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#5.02.04
dc.subject.ocdehttps://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#3.03.02
dc.titleTelemedicine in Peru: origin, implementation, pandemic escalation, and prospects in the new normalen_EN
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.type.otherArtículo
dc.type.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
local.author.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-8648-3626
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oaire.citation.titleOxford Open Digital Health
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