Author Biography

Leao, Beatriz de Faria

 

 

Biographical Notes

Beatriz de Faria Leão has an MD and a PhD Degree. Since March 2000, she's an UNESCO consultant at DATASUS - Ministry of Health Brazil, in the National Health Card Project (NHCP) where she's one of the leaders of the standards group. She has been working with health informatics since 1980, founder of the Brazilian Health Informatics Association, presently coordinator of the standards WG. Former Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the Federal University of Rio Grande Sul. Angela Maria Tornélli Ribeiro, MD, MSc -- Health Municipal Secretary of São José dos Campos, São Paulo -- Angela is going to address the experience in the implantation of the NHCP in the city of São José dos Campos. The challenges of this deployment and the impact of the project in the daily routine of the primary care units are going to be presented. The uses of the project for specific tasks such as recording immunization information are also being presented as well as the users and health care professionals acceptance. The role of the nurses in the implantation phase is also addressed. To finalize she is going to present how the NHCP reports from the Enterprise Information System is allowing for the definitions of better health policies, more consistent with the local context