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      Telemedicine: contributions, difficulties and key factors for implementation in the prison setting Translated title: Telemedicina: aportaciones, dificultades y claves para su implantación en el medio penitenciario

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          Abstract

          Information and communication technologies are transforming the way we understand health, via a hyper-connected world in which patients, professionals and society take on new challenges and roles. This change is creating an ecosystem called connected health, in which telemedicine acquires special importance when distance (not only geographical), is a critical factor. It can respond to financial, social or safety needs or questions of dignity, as is the case with prisoners when they are transferred handcuffed and under custody to hospitals. Bringing health services closer to patients who cannot autonomously travel contributes towards humanising healthcare.

          Tele-consultations, long-distance encounters between patients and health professionals, reduce the direct and social costs inherent to habitual clinical practice and are very highly valued by patients in prison. Despite its potential benefits in the prison setting, the implementation of telemedicine in Spain continues to be scarce and irregular, which, amongst other things, is due to a lack of awareness of this healthcare practice, the severe shortage of resources currently endemic to the prison health service system and the lack of interoperability solutions for clinical information between the healthcare administration and the prison health services, which unfortunately continue to depend on an organisation outside the healthcare ambit (the Ministry of Home Affairs), despite the legal provisions requiring them to be fully integrated into regional health services.

          The SARA (Administration Applications and Networks Systems) Network and the Reúnete © Service offer solid, secure, free technology is available to all prisons, to set in motion telemedicine programs at a nationwide level.

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          Las tecnologías de la información y comunicación están transformando la forma de entender la salud, a través de un mundo hiperconectado en el que pacientes, profesionales y sociedad adquieren nuevos retos y protagonismos. Esta transformación crea un ecosistema, que se denomina salud conectada, dentro del cual la telemedicina adquiere especial relevancia cuando la distancia, no solo geográfica, es un factor crítico. Puede responder a razones económicas, sociales, de seguridad, o de dignidad, como les ocurre a las personas ingresadas en prisión cuando son trasladadas custodiadas y esposadas a los hospitales. Acercar los servicios de salud al paciente que no puede desplazarse en condiciones de autonomía contribuye a humanizar la asistencia sanitaria. Las teleconsultas, encuentros a distancia entre pacientes y profesionales de la salud, reducen los costes directos y sociales respecto a la práctica clínica habitual y son muy bien valoradas por los pacientes que se encuentran en prisión. Pese a los potenciales beneficios de la telemedicina en el medio penitenciario, su implantación en España sigue siendo muy escasa e irregular, debido, entre otros factores, a la falta de difusión de esta práctica asistencial, a la grave insuficiencia de medios que atraviesan los servicios de salud penitenciarios y a la falta de soluciones de interoperabilidad de la información clínica entre la administración sanitaria y los servicios de salud penitenciarios, que desgraciadamente siguen dependiendo de una organización no sanitaria, el Ministerio del Interior, pese a las disposiciones legales que obligan a su plena integración en los servicios autonómicos de salud. La Red SARA (Sistemas de Aplicaciones y Redes para las Administraciones) y el Servicio Reúnete© ofrecen tecnología sólida, segura, gratuita y a disposición de todos los centros penitenciarios, para poner en marcha programas de telemedicina a nivel nacional.

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          Context The term eHealth is widely used by many individuals, academic institutions, professional bodies, and funding organizations. It has become an accepted neologism despite the lack of an agreed-upon clear or precise definition. We believe that communication among the many individuals and organizations that use the term could be improved by comprehensive data about the range of meanings encompassed by the term. Objective To report the results of a systematic review of published, suggested, or proposed definitions of eHealth. Data Sources Using the search query string “eHealth” OR “e-Health” OR “electronic health”, we searched the following databases: Medline and Premedline (1966-June 2004), EMBASE (1980-May 2004), International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (1970-May 2004), Web of Science (all years), Information Sciences Abstracts (1966-May 2004), Library Information Sciences Abstracts (1969-May 2004), and Wilson Business Abstracts (1982-March 2004). In addition, we searched dictionaries and an Internet search engine. Study Selection We included any source published in either print format or on the Internet, available in English, and containing text that defines or attempts to define eHealth in explicit terms. Two of us independently reviewed titles and abstracts of citations identified in the bibliographic databases and Internet search, reaching consensus on relevance by discussion. Data Extraction We retrieved relevant reports, articles, references, letters, and websites containing definitions of eHealth. Two of us qualitatively analyzed the definitions and coded them for content, emerging themes, patterns, and novel ideas. Data Synthesis The 51 unique definitions that we retrieved showed a wide range of themes, but no clear consensus about the meaning of the term eHealth. We identified 2 universal themes (health and technology) and 6 less general (commerce, activities, stakeholders, outcomes, place, and perspectives). Conclusions The widespread use of the term eHealth suggests that it is an important concept, and that there is a tacit understanding of its meaning. This compendium of proposed definitions may improve communication among the many individuals and organizations that use the term.
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                Journal
                Rev Esp Sanid Penit
                Rev Esp Sanid Penit
                sanipe
                Revista Española de Sanidad Penitenciaria
                Sociedad Española de Sanidad Penitenciaria
                1575-0620
                2013-6463
                May-Aug 2019
                31 July 2019
                : 21
                : 2
                : 95-105
                Affiliations
                [1 ] originalHealth Centre of “José Hierro” Social Integration Unit. Santander. orgnameHealth Centre of “José Hierro” Social Integration Unit Santander, Spain
                [2 ] originalEl Dueso Prison Health Centre. Santoña. Cantabria. orgnameEl Dueso Prison Health Centre Santoña, Cantabria Spain
                [3 ] originalEvaluation Unit. Psychiatry Service. Marqués de Valdecilla University Hospital. CIBERSAM orgdiv1Evaluation Unit. Psychiatry Service orgnameMarqués de Valdecilla University Hospital Spain
                Author notes
                Correspondence: Miguel Mateo Soler. Centro penitenciario El Dueso/CIS “Jose Hierro”. C/ Peña Sagra, 18. 39011, Santander. E-mail: miguel.mateo@ 123456dgip.mir.es
                Article
                00005
                10.4321/S1575-06202019000200005
                6813662
                31642860
                8c211a5e-6096-47c9-be25-3b55a6508559

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License

                History
                : 07 April 2019
                : 15 April 2019
                Page count
                Figures: 5, Tables: 2, Equations: 0, References: 31, Pages: 11
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                prisons,telemedicine,electronic health records,remote consultation,videoconferencing,prisiones,telemedicina,registros electrónicos de salud,consulta remota,videoconferencia

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