The future for all hospitals in the world will be the implementation of automation or robotization, so the country is beginning to take its first steps towards these technological advances.
For the Costa Rican Association of Hospital Architecture and Engineering (Acoaih), these processes will bring benefits for the insured and the staff, since they facilitate care and more timely medical diagnoses, telemedicine, digitized X-rays, drug preparation, among others.
One of the most important benefits is that these systems provide greater security and control over medications, since the packaging and unpacking processes verify when a drug is going to expire and in this way the waste of medicines [is avoided],”
explained Vania Ureña, president of the Association.
Another of the advances that Acoaih recommends is the use of wristbands for newborn babies and their mothers, a system that in several private medical centers is already used with great efficiency, and that is expected to be used in the new hospitals of the Caja Costarricense of Social Security (CCSS). When the baby is born, they receive a bracelet with a code, and the mother is given another one, in this way, if they move the child a certain distance, the device emits an alarm.
The incursion of the technology can bring positive effects, since the equipment is getting smaller and smaller, and it allows reducing the spaces in the hospitals, since its application incorporates effectiveness, safety, economic viability and feasibility.