A group of Uruguayan public and private entities, together with medical bosses from the departmental hospital, have joined forces to improve the health service in rural areas, in particular in the department of Cerro Largo, lying over 300 Km from the capital.

During a one-year period 18 small villages in this area, at the moment with a limited healthcare system, will be able to benefit from specialist medical attention given remotely by telematic sharing of diagnostic images. The specialists will assess the tests made in the rural population’s home villages, cutting out the need for long-distance trips to town and city hospitals.

Thanks to the proper use of ICTs people living in rural areas with few human and technical healthcare resources can now gain access to top-quality healthcare. To harness this possibility GMV has now developed antari Primary Care, an e-Health software solution that blends conventional primary healthcare practices with remote medical practices. It also includes organizational aspects such as resource tracking and management, healthcare planning and appointment management. antari Primary Care enables remote diagnoses to be carried out in a swift and intuitive way, retaining the principal working methods of conventional medicine and minimizing the technical complexities associated with telemedicine.

GMV is delighted to see that a large part of Uruguay’s territory can now benefit from antari Primary Care. Revolutionary telemedicine platforms like antari help to make eHealth an increasingly viable, sustainable and efficient alternative, ensuring that healthcare systems can cope with an increasingly complex situation of limited supply and soaring demand.