Incorporação de Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação e qualidade na atenção básica em saúde no Brasil

• Autor(a) principal: Alaneir de Fátima dos Santos
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Délcio Fonseca Sobrinho, Lucas Lobato Araujo, Cristiane da Silva Diniz Procópio, Érica Araújo Silva Lopes, Angela Maria de Lourdes Dayrell de Lima, Clarice Magalhães Rodrigues dos Reis, Daisy Maria Xavier de Abreu, Alzira Oliveira Jorge, Antonio Thomaz Matta-Machado
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Cadernos de Saúde Pública
• Texto Completo: https://cadernos.ensp.fiocruz.br/ojs/index.php/csp/article/view/6441
• topic: Gestão da Qualidade; Tecnologia da Informação; Atenção Primária à Saúde

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are means to handle information, streamline communication, and contribute to patient care. This article describes the incorporation of Information and Communication Technologies in primary care and its association with quality, based on the Brazilian National Program for the Improvement of Access and Quality in Primary Care (PMAQ in portuguese). This was a cross-sectional study with 17,053 teams. An Index of Incorporation of ICTs was created, which included: information infrastructure, systems, and utilization. Regression analysis was used to assess associations. Only 13.5% of the teams had a high degree of ICTs. The strongest association was seen in the utilization of information. ICTs can contribute to improving quality of primary care.