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The objective of the Memorandum of Understanding with SOS Telemedicina, of Venezuela, is to allow access and use of medical training resources in the region through the RedCLARA member networks and to lay the foundations to extend and develop Telemedicine initiatives.

Represented by its Executive Director Luis Eliécer Cadenas, the Latin American Cooperation of Advanced Networks, RedCLARA, signed on November 28 a Memorandum of Understanding with SOS Telemedicina, a community of the Faculty of Medicine of the Central University of Venezuela that maintains an active group of work that performs continuous medical education through internet.

Currently, SOS Telemedicina maintains close to 500 high resolution videos, which can be used by medical communities for ongoing training. Due to the great reception and demand of the offered contents, the community faces technological and management challenges, such as good connectivity, the scalability of the systems, redundancy and technical service. In addition, it needs better diffusion and management of the community.

In this context, the parties will place at the disposal of the regional academic community the contents of the courses and other educational materials developed by the SOS Telemedicina community on the infrastructure provided for this purpose by RedCLARA, so that it can be accessed and used by academics and students from the health field of institutions connected to the National Network partners of the regional network.

RedCLARA will also provide advice and support to the integration of the SOS Telemedicina platform to identity federations, will actively support regional extension and dissemination of training content through mechanisms such as virtual days and connection with entities, communities or peer organizations and is willing to design a high availability architecture with two virtual servers that allow redundancy and scalability for future growth.

The Memorandum of Understanding began its validity as of the date of signature and lasts for one year; It is already available for consultation and download.

For more information on the work of SOS Telemedicina, visit http://telemedicina.ucv.ve