1.3.1 Health Communication
and Information
Context
Considering that the Ministry of Health’s
structure does not have a technical area which brings together
communication and information in health, the following areas
were invited to represent health managers in the event:
the General Coordination of Documentation and Information
(Coordenação Geral de Documentação
e Informação – CGDI) and the Data
Processing Department of the Unified Health System (Departamento
de Informática do SUS – DATASUS). The
workgroup delimited the scope of the call for bid approaching
the health information areas, health scientific and technological
information and health communication.
Methodology
In order to define the priority axes,
the ANPPS was used. Participants chose to highlight priority
problems according to the proposed methodology, based on
individual exercises related to each area. Since the group
came to the conclusion that there would not be enough time
to pass through all the steps the methodology prescribes,
it went back to the discussion with the purpose of setting
and hierarchizing priority lines within each ax that was
defined.
Results
Four axes were defined: Assessment,
Management and Use of Information in Health, Technological
Development, and Quality, in which lines were inserted and
hierarchized as follows:
Ax 1: Assessment – Priority
1
- Development of methodologies or of
processes for assessment of information, of information
systems, and of communication in health.
Ax 2: Management and use of
information in health – Priority 1
- Diagnosis of demands and needs for information
and for development of communication methodologies for
information transfer in health, and scientific and technical
knowledge which favors participative management in Brazilian
Unified Health System - SUS, including information technology
and virtual communication.
- Studies on the dissemination of scientific
information in health (through a number of means, tools
and vehicles) and its impact on the buildup of knowledge
and social practices, including the development of strategies
of non-conventional ways of dissemination of scientific
information in health.
- Analyses of integrated uses of systems
and methodologies in health information, scientific information
and technology and communication in health.
Ax 2: Management and use of
information in health – Priority 2
- Analysis of political, technical, technological
and communicational barriers for equal access to information
and knowledge in health to be used in defining health
policies and programs.
- Development of methodologies for production
and dissemination of science and technology indicators
in the health sector (input, output and impact indicators).
- Development of methodology for appropriation
by health manager services, users, and society in health
research result information.
Ax 3: Technological development
– Priority 1
- Development of modular software components
based on open standards for interoperability of health
information systems and integration of heterogeneous platforms,
made available through open licenses or free software.
- Diagnosis of the information technology
infrastructure and of the incorporation of technological
innovation in management processes concerning health information,
scientific and technological information in health and
communication in health, on a national level.
Ax 3: Technological development
– Priority 2
- Development of registration standards
and data exchange among health information systems.
Ax 3: Technological development
– Priority 3
- Integration of information in the supplementary
health sector with the information of other SUS systems.
- Production of information for cost-effectiveness
studies regarding health technologies.
Ax 4: Quality – Priority
1
- Development of methodologies and techniques
of quality control for health information systems.
Ax 4: Quality – Priority
2
- Assessment of quality in national health
information systems approaching the covering and validity
of registered information, in the many different operational
levels of systems.
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