QUALISIS-Br: An Approach to Improve the Quality of Brazilian Health Information Systems

Author

Silva Jeronimo, Aline ; Argenton Ramos, Ricardo

Author_Institution

Univ. Fed. do Vale do Sao Francisco (UNIVASF), Petrolina, Brazil

Volume

13

Issue

5

fYear

2015

fDate

May-15

Firstpage

1625

Lastpage

1632

Abstract

The main source of Brazilian health information comes from health information systems. Consequently, in order to obtain a reliable and secure information from this health system the data quality insurance are an essential step. This paper presents the QUALISIS-BR, an approach to guide the improvement of the quality in health information systems. This approach were conducted in a well-known Brazilian health information system named SINAN. This first conduction produced information, in catalog format, about the problems and possible solutions from SINAN. Experts, in the area of quality and health information system, performed an experiment validation using questionnaires to discover how applicable the problems and solutions are. The outcome from this experiment showed good preliminary results. Therefore, the QUALISIS-BR is the first step toward to achieve the goal of conducting the data quality improvement of Brazilian health information system.

Keywords

health care; medical information systems; security of data; Brazilian health information systems; QUALISIS-BR; SINAN; data quality improvement; Adaptation models; Context modeling; Information systems; Instruments; Monitoring; Reliability; Software; health information system; management information systems in health center; quality management;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Latin America Transactions, IEEE (Revista IEEE America Latina)

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1548-0992

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TLA.2015.7112024

Filename

7112024