Management Information System (MIS): Tool for Monitoring the Waste Management Health Service (RSS) and Cost of Treatment

• Autor(a) principal: Schneider, Vania Elisabete
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Outros Autores: Stedile, Nilva Lúcia Rech, Bigolin, Marcio, Paiz, Janini Cristina
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Gestão Ambiental e Sustentabilidade - GeAS
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.uninove.br/geas/article/view/9778
• topic: Solid Waste Management; Waste of Health Services; Costs in Management of Health Services; Management Information Systems in Waste.; Gestión de Residuos Sólidos; Residuos de los Servicios de Salud; Costos de Gestión de los Residuos de Servicios de Salud; Sistemas de Información de Gestión de los Residuos.; Gerenciamento de Resíduos Sólidos; Resíduos de Serviços de Saúde; Custos na Gestão de Resíduos de Serviço de Saúde; Sistema de Informações Gerencial em Resíduos.

One of the major challenges of solid waste management has been improve and deploy systems that perform monitoring and control of management processes of health service’s waste (HSW). This study aims to evaluate the total cost per category of HSW/day and active bed/day with the handling of HSW in a teaching hospital in northeastern area of Brazil`s Rio Grande do Sul state and identify contributions of a management information system (MIS) in the management process, especially considering the generation and segregation of waste. Utilized methodology was developed in two stages: data collection about the management of the HSW and proposition, implementation and feed of a MIS for recording and processing of data related to waste characterization. Results show that whether the management system of the hospital in this study were 100% right, the monthly savings for the treatment of infectious waste would be 18.4% of the costs and 5.83% of costs of chemical waste. The implementation of MIS becomes an essential tool in the evaluation of the management process of HSW since it makes possible to raise issues of fundamental importance to the implementation and evaluation of strategies contained in the HSW management plan. The MIS also represents a tool of easy reference and of great importance to evaluate generation of HSW as it helps to promote the surveillance, identification of sectors that have the biggest problems with segregation, as well as ways to minimize costs and impacts.