Abstract
This session discusses the Brazilian National Health Card Project (NHCP) - a large and complex Java based system that began in 1999, through an international bidding. The main goal of the NHCP project is to collect information on health encounters, allowing for the construction of the national repository of health records. The five major components of the project are presented: the telecommunication infrastructure; the point of care terminals, specially designed for this project; the servers and database facilities; the point of care terminal and servers software and, finally, security issues and a whole set of national standards to represent, transmit and store health information. The pilot project covering forty four cities (44) in eleven (11) states of the federation with a population of almost thirteen million (13M) inhabitants and about twenty two hundred (2200) health care providers, (most of them primary care units) is presented emphasizing the actual implementation status. The NHCP software solution from the TAS (Point of Care Terminal) is detailed with emphasis on the Java application on the servers. The Java framework design, patterns used and performance issues are detailed. The present status of the NHCP, lessons learned and challenges ahead of us finalize the presentation. |
