The Brazilian National Telehealth Program in the State of Minas Gerais - Brazil

Author

Melo, Matheus ; Santos, Aldri ; Alves, Humberto J. ; Santos, Sara ; Campos, Renata T. ; Penna, Gustavo Cancela e ; de Souza, Cleidson

Author_Institution

Med. Sch., Fed. Univ. of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte

fYear

2009

fDate

1-7 Feb. 2009

Firstpage

200

Lastpage

203

Abstract

The Brazilian National Telehealth Program was setup by the Brazilian Ministry of Health. In Minas Gerais state, the Federal University of Minas Gerais School of Medicine has joined the State Department of Health and 50 towns for this project development. This paper describes the implementation of the service and partial results and services available. The Nucleus of Telehealth of Minas Gerais has been developing teleducation and teleassistence. From 2007 to 2008 278 teleconsultations and 6295 ECGpsilas took place. A total of 1339 health professionals participated in the videoconferences. The professionals involved in this project were interviewed and talked about the difficulties and benefits. The Telehealth has improved patientpsilas assistance and decreased the patientpsilas needs for dislocation and for consultations with a specialist in big centers. Moreover it was noticed that there is a high cultural resistance concerning the use of information and communication technologies.

Keywords

health care; medical diagnostic computing; Brazilian Ministry of Health; Brazilian National Telehealth Program; ECG; Federal University of Minas Gerais School of Medicine; Nucleus of Telehealth of Minas Gerais; State Department of Health; patient assistance; teleassistence; teleconsultations; teleducation; Biomedical imaging; Cities and towns; Communications technology; Cultural differences; Electrocardiography; Global communication; Government; Immune system; Medical services; Telemedicine; primary care; public health; telehelath;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

eHealth, Telemedicine, and Social Medicine, 2009. eTELEMED '09. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cancun

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3360-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3532-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/eTELEMED.2009.53

Filename

4782657