Title :
The Salus platform: A tele-health solution to support teleconsulting for the Brazilian primary health care network
Author :
Ribeiro Celestrini, Jordano ; Pereira da Silva, Wesley ; Varejao Andreao, Rodrigo ; Komati, Karin ; Corradi, Solange ; Lopes Sylvan, Ana Carolina ; Xavier Fernandes, Filipe ; Queiroz Schimidt, Marcelo ; Sarti, Thiago
Author_Institution :
Fed. Inst. of Espirito Santo, Vitoria, Brazil
Abstract :
The Brazilian Tele-health Program supports the development of information and communication technologies focusing the improvement of the primary health care (PHC) and the increase of the number of actions supplied by the PHC teams. In this context, this work presents the tele-health platform Salus which has been built to support the implementation of the Brazilian Tele-health Program in the Espírito Santo state. A description of the whole process of development is given, along with the main requirements and features.
Keywords :
electronic health records; health care; telemedicine; Brazilian Tele-health Program; Brazilian primary health care network; Espírito Santo state; PHC improvement; Salus platform; information and communication technologies; primary health care improvement; teleconsulting; Access control; Authentication; Databases; Electronic mail; Manuals; Medical services;
Conference_Titel :
Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI), 2014 IEEE-EMBS International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Valencia
DOI :
10.1109/BHI.2014.6864383
