UMAE project. Development and advances 2004-2006

Abstract

The high specialty hospitals had approaching problems in low efficiency and quality of medical care, due to dependence of the Delegations rules in the IMSS. The main problems identified were: making decisions in a distant place, privilege of dilatational decisions, and right to led and cut the budget and finally a low provision. The Honorable Technical Council, must be authorize to create 25 autonomous Medical Units of High Specialization (UMAE) and then to establish a normative rules for operation. There where implanted the systems: “Institutional Supplies”, “Institutional Planning Resources” and there where beginning to implant the “Computerized Medical Records” and “Computerized Administration Systems”. There where authorized a budget of 540 million pesos for the architectural actualization and 350 million pesos for medical equipment. At last two years the UMAE Project advances in quality, evaluated through the medical indicators, decreasing medical indicators out of standards from 48 % to 18 %, increasing supplies level from 79 % to 92.3 %, solving the observations from an Internal Control Organ and an appropriate architecture of hospitals with better equipment, so. There is necessary: to complete and opérate the Electronic Medical Records and the Computarized Hospital Medical Administration System.