Brasilia, March 28, 2023 – With the aim of strengthening information systems and digital transformation in the Brazilian health system, the Secretariat for Information and Digital Health (Seidigi) of the Brazilian Ministry of Health, with the support of the Pan-Americana da Saúde promoted by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), this Tuesday (28/ 03), for the SUS Digital Transformation Symposium. One of the main highlights of the opening session was the importance of new technologies to ensure inclusion and reduce inequalities in health, as well as to promote greater equality.
“No technology – and we are talking here specifically about health-related technologies – can be contemplated without thinking about strengthening health systems. Therefore, issues of access, equity and resolution are presented as very important challenges. Not only at the national level, emphasized Minister of Health Nicia Trindade , but in partnership with the Pan American Health Organization.
The representative of the Pan American Health Organization and the World Health Organization in Brazil, Socorro Gross, highlighted that the country is a reference for the Americas region in the field of digital health, both in terms of its capacity for technological development and for professionals with experience and commitment, who work in various fields of science and technology.
“Brazil has always acted innovatively and with solidarity, transparently making available knowledge generated in its territory and contributing to other locations within its borders and beyond. This is very important to us, as an organization whose principles are American unity, equality, and solidarity.”
Socorro Gross also confirmed that the World Health Organization is celebrating its seventy-fifth anniversary in the coming weeks, with a historic slogan, which is health for all people. “When we talk about this mantra, we are talking about what holistic health and development really is that we need to ensure that all people have the right to have the best opportunity for well-being and health, wherever they are. And for that, there is a before and after of digital transformation.”
Speaking at the opening table, the Executive Secretary of the Ministry of Health, Swedenberger do Nascimento Barbosa, spoke of the importance of including an ethical perspective in the digital health agenda, in order to ensure actions that set ethical standards and legal principles and that empower health professionals for this purpose. “Technology is an advance that must be used for the benefit of society, preserving, amplifying and guaranteeing equal rights because this is something we do not give up in our health system in Brazil.”
Kunas’ technical advisor, Felipe Ferri, represented Kunas at the event.
Commitment to innovation and digital transformation
Brazil has a new Secretariat for Information and Digital Health (Seidigi), which operates within the scope of the Ministry of Health and, among its responsibilities, supports other secretariats, managers, operators and users in the planning, use and integration of products and services of information and information and communication technologies.
Sedigye’s secretary, Ana Estella Haddad, highlighted that the symposium marked the beginning of technical cooperation between the PAHO and the new secretariat “and has on the horizon one of the main tasks of this secretariat, which is to promote the promotion and integration of information and to push it forward in the ongoing digital transformation in the field of health from SUS”.
As Anna Haddad explained, digital health includes the use of ICT resources to produce and make available reliable information about the health status of citizens, health professionals, and public administrators. “It is more comprehensive than e-health and includes recent developments in technology, such as new concepts, social networking applications, the Internet of Things, and artificial intelligence (AI), among others,” he concluded.
Digital transformation goals
PAHO/WHO Director of Evidence and Intelligence for Health Action (EIH) Sebastian García Saiso highlighted that the organization is working towards eight goals for the digital transformation of public health, including achieving universal connectivity. “We need to make sure that the healthcare sector is fully connected and that we all have access to the benefits offered by digital technologies. This is an agenda that needs to be articulated with sectors other than health.”
The eight goals include creating digital products for public health; accelerate progress in favor of vulnerable populations; global collaboration on emerging technologies; and implementing open and sustainable digital health and information systems that work together.
The event also featured a master class by Marcelo D’Agostino, Senior Consultant for Information Systems and Digital Health at the Pan American Health Organization.
–
Source: Pan American Health Organization / World Health Organization
“Writer. Analyst. Avid travel maven. Devoted twitter guru. Unapologetic pop culture expert. General zombie enthusiast.”
:quality(70)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/metroworldnews/YZFRV63IJBD5RKVG6QGBRIUSMU.jpg "Revelations on Wednesday (29) for Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces, according to the Tarot")
