City Cancer Challenge
City project

Information Systems and Data in Léon

Strengthening Cancer Data & Information Systems in León for Coordinated and Quality Cancer Care
City
León, Mexico
Project lead
Dr. Blanca Olivia Murillo Ortíz
Areas of action

The challenge

  • Fragmented health information systems across subsystems and care levels limit data sharing and coordination in Mexico’s National Health System.
  • Healthcare providers lack access to integrated patient data, making it difficult to coordinate care and guide patients through the health system.
  • Absence of unified cancer data at the local level hinders informed decision-making, limits visibility of needs, and slows efforts to improve cancer care quality and access.

The goal

  • Designing control mechanisms to achieve understanding, coordination and implementation of an information systems strategy between existing cancer registration initiatives at the federal and state level, to consolidate a single registration project for León. 
  • Improve the understanding of comprehensive cancer care data and work to develop a way to strengthen data-informed decision-making at local and national levels.

The How

  • Implement the National Research and Development Programme for Registries at a multiinstitutional level in Guanajuato with the support of the National Institute of Cancer and the Mexican Social Insurance Institute.  
  • Mapping of Digital Health and information systems for cancer care t with the collaboration of the National Institute of Public Health, the National Population-Based Cancer Registry, and the Mexican Social Security Institute.

Outputs

  • Adoption of the National Population Based Cancer Registry strategy for the  city of Leon.
  • Mapping and Analysis of the status of Digital Health in the City.

Team

Project Lead
Dr. Blanca Olivia Murillo Ortíz, Director of the Clinical Epidemiology Research Unit, Decentralized Administrative Operating Body (OOAD) in Guanajuato, Mexican Social Security Institute
Project Team
Dr. Yelda Aurora Leal Herrera – Director of the Institutional Center for Training and Cancer Registry; National Coordinator of the Population-Based National Cancer Registry, Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS).
Dr. Blanca Olivia Murillo Ortiz – Doctor of Medical Sciences; Director of the Clinical Epidemiology Research Unit, Decentralized Administrative Operating Body in Guanajuato, Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS)
Dr. Claudia Karina Anaya Moreno , State Coordinator for Evaluation and Institutional Monitoring, Health Secretariat of the State of Guanajuato
Dr. Alfonso Delgado Vargas, Medical Director, General Hospital of León, Health Secretariat of the State of Guanajuato
Dr. Rosa Olivia Guerra Vázquez, Deputy Director of Planning and Quality, General Hospital of León, Health Secretariat of the State of Guanajuato

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