Mexico Digitalizes its Public Infrastructure: The Week in Tech

In Mexico, efforts to digitize healthcare and monitor beach water quality via mobile apps show how tech is redefining civic services. Globally, the emergence of digital forgetting underscores society’s shifting relationship with data permanence. At the enterprise level, modernization urgency is palpable, particularly in logistics. Meanwhile Samsung’s decision to acquire Xealth reflects how tech giants are doubling down on digital health ecosystems that link wearables with clinical platforms. 

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Mexico

Mexico City Advances Digital Health Transformation

Mexico City is advancing the transformation of its healthcare system through innovative digital information systems. The city’s Ministry of Public Health is promoting the use of new technologies to improve health services and decision-making across hospitals, clinics, and care centers.

Mexico Launches App to Monitor Beach Water Quality

SEMARNAT and the Ministry of Health, through the Federal Commission for the Protection Against Sanitary Risks (COFEPRIS), launched the Playas Mx mobile app to provide public access to beach water quality reports across the country’s 17 coastal states.

International

Digital Forgetting Emerges to Challenge Data Permanence

A new technological and conceptual discipline known as digital forgetting has begun to solidify. This approach emerges as a direct response to the challenges that data permanence on the internet imposes. It proposes systems and methodologies that allow individuals and organizations to manage, curate, and selectively delete information in the digital ecosystem in order to regain control over digital narratives and footprints.

TMS Modernization Urgent as Leaders See Future Demand Risks

A study by Manhattan Associates reveals a growing concern in the logistics sector: the majority of organizations fear their Transportation Management Systems (TMS) are not prepared to meet future demands, highlighting an urgent need for technological transformation. Without it, companies are exposed to increased operational costs and competitive disadvantages.

Samsung to Acquire Xealth to Expand Connected Health Strategy

Samsung Electronics has signed an agreement to acquire Xealth, a digital health integration platform, to strengthen its connected care capabilities and expand its role in digital healthcare. The acquisition, expected to close in 2025 pending regulatory approvals, aims to bring together Samsung’s wearable technology with Xealth’s digital health tools to bridge gaps between home monitoring and clinical decision-making.