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

Published: May 13, 2023, 11:11 a.m.

After a series about digital health in the APAC region,\xa0this is the first episode about healthcare and digital health in South America.\xa0\nSpeaker: 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.\n\nDiscussed topics:\xa0\n\nThe state of healthcare digitalization in Peru and other countries in Latin America.\n\nOpportunities and challenges for startups working with public hospitals in Peru.\n\nThe need for more education and training in artificial intelligence for healthcare professionals in Latin America.\n\nThe potential for technology to address issues of access, high mortality rates, and other epidemiological issues in Peru and other countries in the region.\n\nThe importance of validated data in understanding ethnicities and epidemiological components in Latin America.\n\n\nPast episodes on South America:\nhttps://www.facesofdigitalhealth.com/blog/digitalheath-south-america\xa0\xa0\nhttps://www.facesofdigitalhealth.com/blog/sleep-and-digital-health-in-brazil\xa0\n\nWebsite: www.facesofdigitalhealth.com\nNewsletter: https://fodh.substack.com/