LATAM Ep. 1: How digital is Peru? (Jhonatan Bringas)
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Show Notes
After a series about digital health in the APAC region, this is the first episode about healthcare and digital health in South America.
Speaker: Peruvian clinician and innovator Jhonatan Bringas Dimitriades, MD. Jhonatan is based in the Netherlands, and worked across continents as an MD and executive at various tech companies.
Discussed topics:
- The state of healthcare digitalization in Peru and other countries in Latin America.
- Opportunities and challenges for startups working with public hospitals in Peru.
- The need for more education and training in artificial intelligence for healthcare professionals in Latin America.
- The potential for technology to address issues of access, high mortality rates, and other epidemiological issues in Peru and other countries in the region.
- The importance of validated data in understanding ethnicities and epidemiological components in Latin America.
Past episodes on South America:
https://www.facesofdigitalhealth.com/blog/digitalheath-south-america
https://www.facesofdigitalhealth.com/blog/sleep-and-digital-health-in-brazil
Website: www.facesofdigitalhealth.com
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