President Chinchilla has learned about advances in the digitization of health services from Korean authorities, and urged the Social Security Institute to seek advice on the subject.
An opinion piece in Nacion.com details that "After visiting a hospital in Korea, where she could observe the benefits of electronic medical records, President Laura Chinchilla was frankly impatient with the Social Security Institute, whose intentions to adopt the Expediente Digital Único en Salud, EDUS, (Unique Digital Health Record) date from 1998. Fourteen years is a generous timeframe, but the advances have been few. The president, with a sense of urgency, has asked the Department to desist from developing the program in house and seek international assistance. "
The country is negotiating the use of new Brazilian technology for digital television broadcasts.
Orlando Castillo, director of Nicaragua's Telecommunications and Postal Regulator (Telcor), stated that the reason for using the Brazilian-Japanese developed technology is its greater coverage capacity and additional functionality.
El Nuevo Diario reports that, "the negotiations with Brazil include the possibility of offering Nicaraguans a low cost digital TV conversion box and Castillo added that, 'he is hopeful of a positive outcome' for this agenda item".
A mixed committee was formed for suggesting the most convenient alternative for digital television in Costa Rica.
It will be composed by the Telecommunications vice minister, representatives from Camtic (Chamber of Information and Communication Technologies), a delegate from Veritas University and a representative from the state's Tertiary Education Institutions.
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