The telemedicine platform, antari, developed by the engineering multinational GMV, is going from strength to strength in Colombia, at the hands of Campbell business group. Antari will enable Fundación Campbell and other of the business group’s public health institutes to provide their patients with 24 x 7 healthcare. Family physicians working from antari-equipped health centers can communicate with the specialists required in each case to give a precise diagnosis based on teleconsultations.

Campbell Group, specializing in orthopedic surgery and traumatology, has now opened three offsite health centers, two in the city of Soledad ─ in the health centers called “Centro de Salud 13 de Junio” and “Ciudadela metropolitana” ─ and a third in the city of Sabanalarga. In all these clinics GMV’s telemedicine platform, antari, allows offsite medical attention to be blended with traditional onsite attention, giving patients access to specialists without needing to travel to their premises. As the Colombian group has announced “a fourth center is soon to be opened and the aim is eventually to set up 31 antari-enabled health centers nationwide”.

In the words of Doctor Anny Toscano, healthcare manager of Fundación Campbell: “Our antari-based telemedicine services have enabled us to give greater access to specialists in low-complexity public health institutes, boosting our effectiveness, improving the quality of our services and winning a positive feedback from our users”. She goes on: “We can now reach further afield and make better informed referrals”. As of today, “200 visits a month are being clocked up”. 

As Víctor Gaspar points out, General Manager of GMV Colombia, antari “meets the market’s strictest interoperability and security standards (privacy, confidentiality) for all-in management of teleconsultations”. He adds, “It helps clinics draw up better-balanced agendas of teleconsultations and onsite medical appointments. It also takes in organizational aspects such as management and resource-tracking, health planning and appointment management”.