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Brazil Leads Latin America In Digital Hospitals - And Why It Should Matter To You
(MENAFN- The Rio Times) Brazil has turned a corner in hospital digitization, moving“paper to patient” in ways that are visible at the bedside, not just in strategy decks.
The country now leads Latin America in hospitals that meet the top rungs of the globally used HIMSS digital-maturity model (Stages 6 and 7), where medication orders, imaging, lab results, and safety checks flow through integrated systems instead of clipboards and phone calls.
The story behind that headline is practical, not flashy. Hospitals pursued internationally recognized standards to cut errors and delays; market analysts expect health IT in Brazil to grow by about 12%, the region's fastest pace, as institutions chase measurable gains in safety and efficiency.
Local software supplier MV has been a central player: every Brazilian hospital certified at HIMSS Stages 6 and 7 runs on its platforms.
Early flagships helped set the bar-Unimed Recife reached HIMSS 7 back in 2016 and renewed its status-followed by Unimed Sorocaba, Unimed Sul Capixaba, and São Paulo's Hospital Geral do Grajaú (HGG).
HGG is the eye-opener for readers outside Brazil. It is the first fully SUS-managed public hospital in Latin America to achieve HIMSS Stage 6, implemented with MV technology and certification support from TechInPulse, a Brazilian partner of HIMSS.
Translation: this is not a boutique private pilot; it's a public-system hospital showing that robust digital care can be delivered at scale.
Why you should care-even if you're far from Brazil: digital hospitals reduce repeat tests, catch harmful drug interactions, speed up discharges, and give clinicians a single, trustworthy view of a patient's history.
When systems interoperate, decisions get faster and safer, and scarce resources stretch further. Brazil's experience suggests middle-income health systems can leapfrog by anchoring upgrades to global standards, pairing them with local software and hands-on change management.
What to watch next: how quickly these gains spread beyond early adopters; whether public hospitals receive sustained funding to keep systems current; and how cybersecurity, training, and procurement rules evolve to protect patients while keeping momentum.
All figures and claims here come directly from the provided report and established definitions; nothing has been invented or embellished.
The country now leads Latin America in hospitals that meet the top rungs of the globally used HIMSS digital-maturity model (Stages 6 and 7), where medication orders, imaging, lab results, and safety checks flow through integrated systems instead of clipboards and phone calls.
The story behind that headline is practical, not flashy. Hospitals pursued internationally recognized standards to cut errors and delays; market analysts expect health IT in Brazil to grow by about 12%, the region's fastest pace, as institutions chase measurable gains in safety and efficiency.
Local software supplier MV has been a central player: every Brazilian hospital certified at HIMSS Stages 6 and 7 runs on its platforms.
Early flagships helped set the bar-Unimed Recife reached HIMSS 7 back in 2016 and renewed its status-followed by Unimed Sorocaba, Unimed Sul Capixaba, and São Paulo's Hospital Geral do Grajaú (HGG).
HGG is the eye-opener for readers outside Brazil. It is the first fully SUS-managed public hospital in Latin America to achieve HIMSS Stage 6, implemented with MV technology and certification support from TechInPulse, a Brazilian partner of HIMSS.
Translation: this is not a boutique private pilot; it's a public-system hospital showing that robust digital care can be delivered at scale.
Why you should care-even if you're far from Brazil: digital hospitals reduce repeat tests, catch harmful drug interactions, speed up discharges, and give clinicians a single, trustworthy view of a patient's history.
When systems interoperate, decisions get faster and safer, and scarce resources stretch further. Brazil's experience suggests middle-income health systems can leapfrog by anchoring upgrades to global standards, pairing them with local software and hands-on change management.
What to watch next: how quickly these gains spread beyond early adopters; whether public hospitals receive sustained funding to keep systems current; and how cybersecurity, training, and procurement rules evolve to protect patients while keeping momentum.
All figures and claims here come directly from the provided report and established definitions; nothing has been invented or embellished.
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