Ministry of Health wants to expand digitization and connectivity in the SUS

Health

SUS Digital Brazil Program will reinforce initiative

Expanding digitization in the Unified Health System (SUS) to increasingly include citizens and improve public health care in the country is work that is ongoing at the Ministry of Health with the creation, this year, of the Secretariat for Information and Digital Health. This work will be reinforced with the launch of the SUS Digital Brasil program.

“The launch of a great program called SUS Digital Brasil is in preparation and this program will have multiple strategies so that we can make the SUS, as a whole, advance more and more in the digital transformation aimed at improving the health conditions of the population, to democratize access so that we have better health for all”

said the Secretary of Information and Digital Health of the Ministry of Health, Ana Estela Haddad, in an interview with the program Brazil on agendawhich airs this Sunday (25), on TV Brasil.

The secretary explains that, for citizens, the digitization of health in the public system has as guidelines inclusion, universal access, reducing inequalities and seeking to verify who is in a situation of greater vulnerability. For health professionals and managers, the expansion of computerized and integrated systems generates more qualified information for decision-making, both in management and in patient clinical care.

“When we have the information, we can better identify needs and work on public policies to better serve the population”

said Ana Estela.

An important digital tool that currently allows citizens to track their clinical history in the palm of their hand is the Connect SUS Citizen. The official application of the Ministry of Health allows a person to view the clinical history, identify health establishments close to their location and access the vaccination history, for example.

The application also allows the integration of public and private health establishments to ensure access to health information necessary for the continuity of care for citizens.

indigenous health

Advancing with the computerization of the indigenous health subsystem is a priority, according to secretary Ana Estela, and the region where the Yanomami peoples live, in Roraima, will receive increased attention.

“This is one of the regions that we are going to be planning and working on, with priority being given to structuring the telehealth network together with the care network and also taking care of the digitization process, of telehealth, of systems information, so that we can have a better performance of the network of attention”

he declared.

*With information from Agência Brasil

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