LATAM Ep. 1: How digital is Peru? (Jhonatan Bringas)

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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