Authorities call doctors to use electronic medical licenses

Adherence to its use is voluntary on the part of physicians and employers.

A May 31, 2018, 12,705 medical licenses were processed at the Commission of Preventive and Invalidity Medicine (Compin) In addition, 4,110 electronic medical licenses were issued, which were processed at Santiago, but which is about to change since yesterday began the process of decentralization of medical licenses to Magallanes.

Thus, from now on, the receipt, processing, declaration and calculation of the electronic medical license grant will be entirely made in Magallanes.

At the presentation yesterday at the Compin office in Punta Arenas, Under Secretary of Public Health Paula Daza said today that all electronic medical licenses are being granted in the region. will be managed at Magallanes. Until yesterday, the electronic medical license was managed in Santiago. The other thing is that the automatic calculation is being implemented. This whole process will speed up payment for people at the right time.

The electronic medical license aims to facilitate the process of granting and processing through the use of information technologies, offering multiple benefits to the various actors involved in the process. The process of decentralization involves the recognition of local needs and realities in each region.

Mayor Christian Matheson pointed out that this would expedite all the procedures regarding the management that the recipient has to do with this license as well as for the employer. "For this, we need doctors to start using electronic medical licenses, and on the other hand, employers to join it."

In turn, Seremi health, Mariela Rojas, noted that the registration of employers to the new medical licensing system, can be done through the site of the Compin. "When the electronic medical licenses were processed in Santiago, the process was slower.We know that we are dressed in white, but we hope to give a very good response to the community.I want to call all the employers to the register in this system, "

In 2017, 30,572 medical licenses were processed in Magallanes, to which should be added that 10,876 electronic licenses were issued, which were processed in the system.Centralized medical controller in Santiago.

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