Methodological proposal for the planning of the health infrastructure with focus on telesalud using geospatial data in an intelligent cities environment

In Ecuador, the planning and maintenance of health infrastructure is in charge of the GAD, despite the absence of a national regulation for the location of this type of equipment, it makes the scope of territorial equity difficult. In addition, geospatial data are not always accessible, so it is crucial to integrate existing information from public entities and academic institutions, together with other sources of information such as PPGIS. Given the evidence of inequalities in access to public care services, such as health, the use of additional digital information sources in an intelligent cities environment is proposed, which depending on the level of maturity could facilitate analysis as a practice of digital twins. This will allow a proposal to identify Telesalud points, considering that this type of infrastructure will help strengthen the health of the country. This work proposes to take advantage of existing tools and that allow the integration and interoperability of geoinformation. In addition, it is necessary to investigate the way in which telecommunications coverage information can ingest in territorial planning, integrating a specific study case of telemedicine points using the sources of information that can be accessed especially from the Arcotel. In addition, as a basis it is expected to project towards a digital twin of the intelligent city. The research will address the problem of the location of health equipment, Telesalud points, in the GADs in an intelligent cities environment using the Ucuenca IDE being an open source tool.

20th UNIVERSITY RESEARCH PROJECT COMPETITION