Rev Panam Salud Publica
October 2024
Objective: To identify women's technological capabilities and describe their appropriation and use of technology in a community in a vulnerable area of Colombia.
Method: Observational cross-sectional study conducted in the subregion of Urabá, Colombia. A survey was conducted in primary health care centers, in which 1478 women between 18 and 49 years of age responded to questions about their technological capabilities, their experience with the use of web-based information, and their appropriation of technology.
Introduction: eHealth offers a solution to current challenges in maternal health. Telemonitoring can rethink antenatal care, achieving more personalized medicine, especially in high-obstetric risk conditions. A home care model mediated by the development of a mobile and web application that seeks support in clinical decision-making was created in our institution.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSerious games have been used to increase the accuracy and usege of clinical guidelines during routine clinical practice. This document presents the development of a serious game called SIM-GIC, a video game designed to simulate virtual patients and evaluate the decision making of players based on computer-interpretable clinical guidelines. The system is currently being developed with a content focus on antenatal care guidelines, where a number of obstetric guidelines were coded in XML files.
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