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0071/2024 - Telecare in the Brazilian Unified Health System: we are and are we going?
Teleassistência no Sistema Único de Saúde brasileiro: onde estamos e para onde vamos?

Author:

• Soraia de Camargo Catapan - Catapan, S. C. - <s.decamargocatapan@uq.edu.au>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6223-1697

Co-author(s):

• Eduardo Alves Melo - Melo, E. A. - <eduardo.melo@fiocruz.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5881-4849
• Angélica Baptista Silva - Silva, A. B. - <angelica.baptista@fiocruz.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0292-5106
• Mariana Vercesi de Albuquerque - Albuquerque, M. V. - <mariana.albuquerque@fiocruz.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0763-6357
• Maria Cristina Marino Calvo - CALVO, M. C. M. - <cristina.calvo@ufsc.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8661-7228


Abstract:

This article explores telecaretelehealth developments and the recent acceleration of the digital health transformation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS). It addresses terminological issues, the scope of actions, the potential use for healthcare, and constraints and contingencies for telecare in Brazil, focusing on teleconsultations and interactions between health professionals and patients. Finally, it presents a set of propositions for the development of telecare policies and practices in Brazil, considering the principles of SUS, in two central themes: organizational political guidelines and operational propositions to organise services and care. The importance of pondering and elucidating the scope and limits of new technologies is highlighted in the attempt to avoid idealizations with proposed solutions to complex health problems. Telecare solutions should be compatible with SUS principles and with the recommended model of care, with the healthcare network coordinated and organised by primary care, ensuring access to health services and integrated and quality healthcare for Brazilian society.

Keywords:

Remote consultation. Telehealth. Digital Health. Patient care. Unified Health System.

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Catapan, S. C., Melo, E. A., Silva, A. B., Albuquerque, M. V., CALVO, M. C. M.. Telecare in the Brazilian Unified Health System: we are and are we going?. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2024/Mar). [Citado em 05/11/2024]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/telecare-in-the-brazilian-unified-health-system-we-are-and-are-we-going/19119?id=19119



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