ICT: economical solution to health problems

- 02/09/2014

At the plenary session of the III RNP Forum, which was held on Tuesday morning, 9/2, the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) were presented as economical solutions for expansion of health care to the population.

For the World Health Organization (WHO) Director Najeeb Al-Shorbaji, “the value of e-Health is to achieve equity in access to health care services. Millions of people die because they have no idea of the reason for their illness.”

He believes that the “e-Health can reduce the costs of health care”. For this reason, a key point would be to focus on the standardization and interoperability of e-Health tools and applications.

The Ministry of Health Program (MOH) Director and Family Doctor Giliate Cardoso Cordeiro Neto said that “the folder has been investing heavily in IT, one of the key components for health care to get out of the fragmentation situation it is in. The patient has consultations in various health centers, with no correlation among diagnostics. The elderly population is the one that suffers the most because they have to go to numerous specialists and those mostly damaged by it are the patients. So, IT plays a key role.”

He also defended the integrated systems. “We want to increase investment in telehealth and telemedicine. We need to integrate telehealth systems with electronic medical records and the system of referrals,” he said. And ensured that “for the MOH, it is essential to invest in ICT to significantly reduce its costs”.

The RNP

Still in the plenary session, the RNP Services and Solutions Director José Luiz Ribeiro Filho presented the ongoing initiatives of the organization, such as the opening of the Telemedicine University Network (Rute) new centers, the five new courses of the College of Networks (ESR) and the New Paths project, which is promoting the internalization of the academic network, the Ipê network.

“The new public RNP website began its operations yesterday, a great effort to increase the visibility of our work and we thank you for the contributions to the development of the tool,” said José Luiz.

He also highlighted the beginning of assisted operations of two Shared Data Centers (CDCs), deployed at the National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA) and the Federal Institute of Pernambuco (OPSI), which comprise the Brazilian academic cloud developed by RNP.

Regarding the RNP Forum, he brought the numbers of the event’s third edition. “This year we received over 460 entries, with 23 sponsors, over 50 speakers, two parallel sessions in eight domains, with exhibitions, lectures, and technical sessions. At the 2015 Forum, we are going to talk about mobility,” said José Luiz, who stressed the importance of the participants evaluating the event, so that it can be improved in the following years.

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