This is good news for those heading to the United States: “specialists and activists from San Diego and Tijuana came together to create an application that can store immigrants’ medical information in a cloud and help people on their journey can be operated.” ”.

The application is called Umed.me, Noticias Telemundo indicates, and the company behind it is Teqbahn Labs.

Enrique Lucero Vázquez, director of Migrant Assistance in Tijuana, Mexico, quoted in Tayakán, pointed out that this app is important because “due to the way migrants travel and move, they often lose their documents along the way.

They arrive in Tijuana “with many illnesses or injuries” and efforts are made to avoid starting the diagnosis all over again.

Enrique Lucero Vázquez, Aid to Migrants in Tijuana

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Benefits of the Umed.me application

On their website, they describe Umed.Me as “a health technology incubator.” It was developed – they specified – using public health expertise across all medical specialties, in both outpatient (chronic) and hospital (acute) settings, including mental health and migration.

They emphasized that it ensures secure storage of documents and provides continuity of care, medicines and nutritional resources to promote health and well-being in the migrant environment.

They pointed out to Telemundo that this is a tool that:

In Tijuana they presented the new Umed.Me on November 30, 2023.

“Users can authorize any doctor, hospital or health expert to post information in the application. It is very easy for anyone to use the ‘app’ and enter information that will be useful to him or her, wherever he or she is and is located. waiting for their asylum procedure,” said the makers, TV Azteca reported.

Usefulness of the Umed.me app in children

“Sometimes it happens that we have a very complicated case, especially in children, they do not bring their documents from their country or they arrive with different prescriptions and this complicates their care, because when you ask for help in hospitals, it is The first thing they ask is the history of their business.” Vidya Sri, co-founder of Teqbahn Labs, told EFE.

Where the Umed.me application is available

The specialists who developed the application state that “it is now available on all operating systems, both iOS and Android, and also the web version if you sit behind a monitor”, they explained in the aforementioned Mexican media.

What is required is that the migrant registers his name and nationality. Initially, it is not that important to offer email.

Languages: The application is in Spanish. Also in English, Russian, Tamil, Haitian Creole, French, Arabic, Kurdish and Dari.

(JO)