2024LATAMHEALTHCHAMPIONSAPRIL 2024 itif.org CONTENTS Introduction ....................................................................................................................... 2 Application 1: Fundación Cardiovascular de Colombia (Colombia) ........................................ 3 Application 2: Montejo Innovation SAS (Colombia) ............................................................. 4 Application 3: AVEDIAN-AUMED SAS (Argentina) .............................................................. 5 Application 4: BIENI-MED, S.A. (Panama) ........................................................................ 6 Application 5: The Lily Project (Nicaragua) ........................................................................ 7 Application 6: Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá (Colombia) ................................................... 8 Application 7: HealthAtom (Chile) .................................................................................. 10 Application 8: FOODVICA SA de CV (Mexico) ................................................................... 11 Application 9: KITSMILE (Colombia) .............................................................................. 12 Application 10: Instadosis App - Healpty S.A. (Panama) ................................................... 13 Application 11: Universidad de La Sabana (Colombia) ...................................................... 14 Application 12: KUMPELS- KUMPELS S.A.S. (Colombia) ................................................. 16 Application 13: Viretec Gestión y Desarrollo SA de CV (Mexico) ......................................... 17 Application 14: Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (Costa Rica) ...................................... 19 Application 15: Otilia (Argentina) ................................................................................... 20 Application 16: PILL.AR (Argentina) ............................................................................... 22 Application 17: TARGETSOFTDECOLOMBIA SAS (Colombia) ............................................ 23 Application 18: Reliv (Ecuador) ...................................................................................... 25 Application 19: Selectivity (Argentina) ............................................................................ 26 Application 20: Pacifico Salud - SAHSAC (Peru) .............................................................. 28 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION FOUNDATION | APRIL 2024 PAGE 2 INTRODUCTION Innovation plays a critical role in improving public health and in overcoming global health challenges, and robust intellectual property (IP) rights are key in enabling innovation around the world by providing incentives for innovators to invest research and development (R&D) that produce health innovations. Our organizations, the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF), the Latin American Federation of the Pharmaceutical Industry (FIFARMA), and Instituto de Prospectiva e Innovacion en Salud (INNOS) have teamed up to launch a competition to identify the most novel and promising health care innovations in South America. Our Call for LATAM Health Champions, which ran from February 5 to March 5, 2024, received 55 applications proposing innovative health solutions to a wide range of health challenges. This booklet highlights the top 20 applications that were deemed most groundbreaking. The different health challenges addressed by these innovations include: - A device for fertility treatments that allows gynaecologists to cheaply and easily perform intrauterine inseminations in their offices, expanding access to fertility treatments. - A tool that makes education on sexual and reproductive health more broadly accessible. - A device that provides pulmonary resuscitation without previous medical training. - An artificial intelligence (AI) monitor that determines the level of anaesthesia depth for patients during surgery. - A tool that allows non-specialized healthcare personnel to stop haemorrhage during childbirth in an easy, affordable, nonsurgical, anaesthesia-free, and painless manner. - A low-cost platform for 3D printing of medications that will improve access to personalized medicine by allowing for individually scaled medication production. - An AI platform that extracts actionable data during the patient journey to support insurers, hospitals, and drug manufacturers, addressing the problem of fragmentation in health systems that can limit the effective use of the large amount of data generated. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION FOUNDATION | APRIL 2024 PAGE 3 Application 1: Fundación Cardiovascular de Colombia (Colombia) The Cardiovascular Foundation of Colombia (FCV) is one of the most important medical complexes in Colombia and Latin America. It is the first institution in the country accredited by the Joint Commission International (patient safety) and HIMSS Emram 7 (Digital Hospital). The