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● The Movement Health Foundation (Fundación Movimiento Salud) has as founding members Professor Rifat Atun, from Harvard University; Roche, Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies, Microsoft and Siemens Healthineers.
● Health Movement seeks to be a catalyst for developing health care systems to be more equitable, sustainable and resilient, creating exponential impacts around the world by developing and scaling shared solutions to health care challenges.
● The Foundation has a presence in 5 regions and 25 countries in Africa, Europe and the Middle East.
● In Chile, where the biggest challenge is the long waiting lists for specialized care whose times increased by 365% during COVID, the Movement promoted the creation of a platform that integrates the data of lung cancer patients from diagnosis to recovery , reducing times.
The world’s public health systems face enormous and similar pressures. The most visible are the increase and aging of the population, two variables that lead to an increase in chronic diseases and, with them, health costs.
In Latin America alone, according to the CAF, in 30 years the population over 65 will double, and with the challenges in terms of health. A report from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) warns that health spending trends are increasing, and without good information systems, higher costs will result from inefficiencies.
Even more worrying is the fact that inequality of access is not diminishing and that quality health care is unavoidable for millions of people.
Against this background, on May 21, the professor of Global Health Systems at Harvard University, Rifat Atun; Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies (CIFS); Microsoft, Roche and Siemens Healthineers announced the creation of the Movement Health Foundation on the sidelines of the 76th World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland.
The Foundation’s goal is to transform health systems through collaboration across sectors – governments, employers, healthcare providers, and patients – to provide access to quality healthcare for everyone, now and in the future. With the officialization of the Foundation, Movimiento Salud will have heavy weights, with great experience and skills, to achieve that goal of making the systems of Latin America and the world more sustainable and efficient.
“The challenge of tackling the world’s biggest health problems cannot be solved by one company or organization, but we must draw on the insights and expertise of major cross-industry partners,” said Professor Atun, who training has been part of its foundation since its inception. was launched as a pilot initiative in Latin America in 2019 and he is today the chairman of the board of directors of the Foundation.
“The ability to harness the power of digital technology and AI will be essential to ensure the sustainability of health systems and to accelerate a more equitable global delivery of healthcare between patients, professionals and systems. We are proud to be one of the partners original. Movement Health and we see the Foundation as a catalyst for this transformation to deliver value to patients and society,” said Tom McGuinness, corporate vice president of Global Health and Life Sciences at Microsoft, a company that will harness the power of technology identify and promote innovative solutions that address the needs identified by the Foundation.
“As leaders in the healthcare industry and co-founding partners of the Movimiento Salud Foundation, we are excited by this opportunity to impact underserved populations by combining the power of our unique capabilities and commitment to building healthcare systems with sustainable healthcare across The world. ,” said Tisha Boatman, Senior Vice President, Global Access to Care, Siemens Healthineers and Health Movement Board Member. “We share the view that health is a basic human right and that everyone should have the opportunity to benefit from innovations in healthcare, such as improved diagnostics for the early detection of disease.”
Rolf Hönger, who is Vice President of the Foundation’s Board of Directors, Head of Area for LatAm at Roche Pharma, and who has been part of the Salud Movement since its inception, said: “When we launched the Movement in Latin America, we did not succeed. expected that this Pandemic would put even more pressure on our health care systems, but we knew one thing: we had to strengthen them for the future of humanity. These events have not only reaffirmed our commitment to facilitating equal access to health care, but have also strengthened the Foundation”.
Thanks to these efforts, the Foundation can already present significant success in countries such as Chile, where public-private collaboration has been achieved to address the optimization of case resolution in patients with lung cancer . As well as Peru, where there has been significant improvement in key performance indicators, particularly in relation to early childhood development and the productivity of the health workforce. All this without the need to increase budget spending.
This is how in Chile, where the biggest challenge is the long waiting lists for the attention of the specialists whose times increased by 365% during COVID, they decided to face this problem through a collaboration “initiated ” (Pegasi, Entelai and Aim Manager). , CENS and the National Thoracic Institute (INT) to work on a systematic solution. Currently, they are in the implementation phase of the platform that integrates data from lung cancer patients from referral and diagnosis to treatment, creating a continuous flow of communication that keeps stakeholders connected and contributes to clinical decision-making, while reducing administrative tasks.
“We believe that the future belongs to no one, but to everyone, so we want to leverage our global knowledge to contribute to the goal of creating sustainable, integrated and sustainable healthcare systems worldwide, ” said Bogi Eliasen, Director of CIFS Health and a member of the Foundation’s Board, who agrees that “equal access to high quality healthcare is essential so that everyone can live better and healthier lives, and must should be a priority for any sustainable health care system”.