Meet the champions

Eimy is a co-founder of Mosquitiamed, the first network of volunteers using ICTS as an innovative solution to provide medical care in indigenous communities. She is a co-founder and coordinator of the first telehealth network at the national level in Honduras that allows the communication of 38 remote health units with specialized hospitals, causing savings as patients are cared for in their own community. She is also the coordinator of knowledge research lines skills and practices in ICTS and telehealth in first and second level health personnel health care. On top of that, she facilitates digital health and tele-education issues.

Eimy coordinates telehealth and tele-education processes with different health networks at the national level and tele-response centers at the central level. She actively participates in planning processes with different governmental and non-governmental actors. She also coordinates the logistics programming. She has attended meetings and events related to the management of telehealth projects.

Eimy's interest in digital health was born after her first year of volunteering in medical social service, in the most difficult place in Central America. In "La Mosquitia", there is only one regional Hospital, and the communities are far away. People who live there have to travel for 8 hours or even 2 days to access medical services. This inspired her to work on providing access to health services for all people, regardless of where they live, and the first project in telemedicine using ICTs by volunteer doctors was founded.

Eimy believes that providing communication spaces and positioning of different leaders in digital health at the regional level, creating a community of innovative women (digital health, STEAM, etc.) is the key of attracting more women to work in digital health.

Elisa developed the first electronic medical history in Colombia using HL7 to integrate departmental systems. She led the first "paperless" hospital in Colombia, and designed the digital hospital framework used in several hospitals. She also led the implementation of a system for diagnosing cerebrovascular events using convolutional neural networks. She led the first implementation of a system to support clinical decisions in treatment for cancer patients , using natural language processing, architect of the interoperability solution of electronic health records for Colombia using X-Road as a platform.

Elisa works on interoperability, digital hospital, advanced analytics, process automation (RPA), artificial intelligence, revenue cycle management, claims, and health risk management.

Elisa leads solutions development groups for the health sector for many years, that has allowed her to know the industry, its actors, its processes, its needs, its challenges. She is passionate about seeing how the proper use of technology transforms processes, makes them more efficient and generates safety and quality in the care of individuals and populations, better health outcomes and more sustainable and profitable to organizations. She is passionate about solving the challenges in the field.

Elisa thinks that the challenge starts with how to attract more women to STEM college careers (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). Today only 17% of women are involved in these areas compared to 83% of men. If you add to this that women must be attracted to digital health, the challenge is even greater. She emphasizes that it is imperative that governments in the region, the education and health sector push campaigns to attract more women to these fields of knowledge.

Elsa was the winner of the Innomarathon of the SAP company in Mexico, a finalist of the international Innomarathon in NCY, USA. She delivered a presentation of a startup to help generate access to health for vulnerable populations,

Elsa is CEO of the Connect2drs. Connect2drs is a digital telemedicine platform with general doctors and specialists, and provides online prescriptions. It is the first open source prescription code on Blockchain in Mexico.

Elsa is passionate about digital health because it creates development opportunities in the technology-based health sector. She seeks to create a social enterprise that is not only sustainable, innovative but also impacts society, especially vulnerable populations

Elsa believes that a key to attract more women to work in digital health is to generating accessible groups of young entrepreneurs in the sector with mentors in decision-maker positions to open up opportunities for them.