AMETIC calls to revise the current model of public procurement in the health sector.

-bet by formulas as public-private collaboration, innovative technological public procurement or pre-commercial purchase

– health spending in ICT is situated in 637 M€, of which 318 M€ return system in save mode by the technological use

-more than 40 companies actively working in this Committee

Madrid, January 2012.- the multisectoral business of electronics, information technologies and communication, telecommunications and content digital (AMETIC), through its Commission on eHealth, Association urges the health administration to the revision of the current model of public procurement to favour the acquisition of ICT solutions. Thus, the Association advocates encourage ICT tools as the collaborative public private (CPP), the buying public technological innovative (SCIT) and the purchase Pre-Comercial (CPC).

This initiative is one of the main lines of action established by the Commission of AMETIC eHealth in its strategic plan for 2012, which includes actions to raise awareness in the health sector of the direct impact of ICT on quality and efficiency of health care and as a key tool for the sustainability of the system.

It is estimated that the ICT expenditure of the different ministries stands at around 1 per cent of total health expenditure, and that approximately half of it returned to the system in save mode by improvement in the functioning of the health care and administrative network.

Data from Spain place health public expenditure, including expenditure on long term cui¬dados, at 63.768 million euros (national system of health 2010). Therefore, expenditure on ICT would be 637 million euros of which 318 million euros return annually to the system in save mode, by the use of ICT.

Cave mention: the use of the electronic recipe at the end of 2010 giving coverage to a 26 per cent of the population and that, according to data from the Ministry of health, can be reduced to 30% visits to health centres and between a hundred and a 20 30% the time doctors spend to fill prescriptions.

The Commission AMETC eHealth has at the beginning of its activity with the participation of more than 40 companies. It is chaired by the Director of health strategy of HP Enterprise Services, Lola Ruiz. While the Vice-Presidency is Operations Manager of INDIBA, Eduardo Corral.

The situation facing the health sector today, in that smaller companies are severely affected by the high percentage of defaults, makes it necessary to promote the integration and use of new technologies to improve the current system. That is why this Commission has as one of its main objectives to share solutions and progress proposed in the ICT industry to administrations, managers, patients and health professionals.

As key measures to improve the efficiency of the current health care system, AMETIC drew attention to the generation of reports results (both economic and health); the introduction of quality systems; the impetus for the deployment of telemedicine (tele, tele-diagnosis, tele-terapia, etc.) and the implementation of tools not related to health, but capable of generating cost savings (measurements of energy efficiency or treatment of hospital waste, among others). In addition, the Commission is working actively to facilitate institutional internationalization in the ICT sector in the health sector, mainly in the framework of the European Community.

On the other hand, to the current difficulty of access to existing public documentation, the Commission faces the challenge of creating a documentary Fund of information of interest to everyone of interest that includes relevant reports, regulations, and cases of best practices, as well as enhance studies in relevant areas for the sector that do not they have been analyzed.

AMETIC is the association formed from the merger of two large associations in the sector of electronics, information technology, telecommunications and digital content – Aetic-Asimelec, representing more than 5,000 companies in the hipersector ICT whose business contributes about 6% of Spanish GDP and the vast majority of the private effort in r & d.