Eletronic Medical Records

The main objective behind the sub-project Eletronic Medical Records is to digitalise 167 health units, with a predicted allocation of 1.300 microcomputers.

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Through this digital information system, all actors of the sanitary process will be able to consult clinical related data and will be able to have a more unitary and integrated view of medical treatments of citizens, beginning with the clinical relations of diagnosed services and first level specialities.

This technological resource allows professionals to access the medical records of patients, which contributes to the effectiveness, treatment continuity and to quicker clinical decision making. Another benefit is the on-line access to laboratorial exam results.

The evaluation regarding the implementation of a broad health management system in the municipal health department will be highly positive, with an important impact in the quality improvement of offered service attention, in the construction flows that make patient servicing more agile, in the decrease of queue size and patient waiting time and mainly in the development of mechanisms that improve management process of medical units, particularly offering subsidies to the family health teams focusing on the planning, monitoring and activity evaluation. The integration of assistance activities and administrative aspects, present in the biological material collection, pharmacy, material storage, permits a better use of existing resources, improving control mechanisms and the consequent impact in the costs of the offered service.

The system is structured in functional modules related to activities of patient data collection, patient service, pharmacy, service register, urgency, scheduling, human resource management, materials, contracts and costs.

The project team, has the objective of implementing in two sanitary districts: Barreiro and Venda Nova. The opting behind choosing Venda Nova according to its geographical position - bordering two other cities in the Belo Horizonte metropolitan area and the population, strongly dependant of the SUS( unified health system), These present the worse social-sanitary in the city of Belo Horizonte.

The predicted implementation infra-structure of the health management system, finds itself in the following phase:
- Equipment: in a general way the health management network project requires 10 micro computers with printers and proper furniture in each health unit. The many equipment acquisition processes are concluded or in its final elaboration phase. Some equipments have already been acquired by SMSA.
- Network: each one of these units will have a local network, involving all microcomputers connected by a switch. This local network is linked through routers with dedicated lines ( from the Embratel Telephone communication company) to central level of the SMSA (main building) which has connections with all the RMI network (Municipal network of the city hall of B.H.), besides internet access. The central level building of the SMSA, has a equipment room (CPD) with all the communication infra-structure and service equipment.