During the second half of 2013 and the first of half 2014, a comprehensive analysis including all delegations and national administrative units identified the need to develop a tool to provide information and advice to beneficiaries in relation to their personal loans, thus avoiding unnecessary visits to the offices of the State Employees' Social Security and Social Services Institute (Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Sociales de los Trabajadores del Estado (ISSSTE)).

• Nowadays, new technologies offer the opportunity to improve the quality of life of those who use them. In its mission to contribute to the satisfaction and overall wellbeing of its beneficiaries, as well as to provide better quality services, the State Employees' Social Security and Social Services Institute (Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Sociales de los Trabajadores del Estado (ISSSTE)) has been constantly innovating.

The tendency to care for people with health impairments at home has been growing in recent decades. This has led health and social security institutions to identify households as settings for care, and the family, as a fundamental element to support this practice. In this context, the State Employees' Social Security and Social Services Institute (Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Sociales de los Trabajadores del Estado (ISSSTE)) has developed an interactive multimedia course that can be consulted by anyone with internet access.

This service was created to standardize the scheduling of medical consultations, by integrating communication technologies and institutional systems such as the on-line validation of rights. This contributes to the allocation of communities in the same medical unit, strengthening the concept of family medicine and reducing waiting times to access the service.

In 2013, various actions allowed to eliminate the need for pensioners to validate their rights on-site. This practice required pensioners to go personally twice a year to the State Employees' Social Security and Social Services Institute (Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Sociales de los Trabajadores del Estado (ISSSTE)) to prove they were alive and that they continued to collect their pensions. In these periods, nearly a million pensioners, most of them aged 65 and over, attended one of the 365 national offices.

The Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), as the largest social security institute in Latin America, services 70 million Mexicans through 6,000 medical units and administrative facilities across the country.

The National Strategy for Reinforcing Good Personal Treatment at the Mexican Social Security Institute (Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS)) has been developed to improve service quality perception for institutional service users at IMSS through eight components:

Under the process to improve medical services, the Mexican Social Security Institute (Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS)) has designed and implemented the Integrated Health Programmes (PREVENIMSS) strategy, which is based on the use of preventive actions.

With the objective of strengthening its outreach, in 2013 IMSS designed the campaign "Chécate, Mídete, Muévete" (Check, Measure and Move) for the prevention and control of excess weight and obesity, considered to be one of the main public health problems in Mexico.