Investigar a contribuição da rede universitária de telemedicina no desenvolvimento de uma nova prática de saúde digital

• Ano de defesa: 2013
• Autor(a) principal: Lopes, Paulo Roberto de Lima [UNIFESP]
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• dARK ID: ark:/48912/001300001x2q2
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP)
• Palavras-chave em Português: telemedicine; telehealth; evaluation; program evaluation; telemedicina; telessaúde; avaliação; diagnóstico da situação; avaliação de programas e projetos de saúde
• Link de acesso: https://sucupira.capes.gov.br/sucupira/public/consultas/coleta/trabalhoConclusao/viewTrabalhoConclusao.jsf?popup=true&id_trabalho=935231; http://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/47928

Background: The practice of digital health is the set of techniques, practices, attitudes, ways of thinking and new values that develop as result of the digital space growing. The project: Brazilian Telemedicine University Network (RUTE) seeks to promote changes in digital health practice, providing a telecommunications network and telemedicine equipment to school hospitals in Brazil, focused research activities, teaching and health assistance. Objective: To investigate the contribution of RUTE project on the development of a new digital health practice in the axes of education, healthcare and research. Method: This is qualitative and quantitative exploratory study, based on electronic survey with 55 semi-structured questions, applied to the coordinators of 72 operational telemedicine units on the RUTE. The analysis clarifies the status of units and establish a measure of performance on digital health practice within the project RUTE. Results: With a membership of 75 % of the units of RUTE, 204 insights was collected from units and were classified by qualitative analysis on 14 categories. Five analysis axes were measured comparatively in the quantitative performance of the RUTE: (i) health education, (ii) remote collaborative healthcare practices, (iii) in the multicenter study and research, development and innovation of telemedicine, (iv) school hospitals management and (v) the social impact. Operating units have primary focus on the use of education, followed by remote assistance and then to research. Conclusion: Based on the assumptions set out in the project proposed by the RNP – National Education and Research Network, the results of operating units RUTE indicate that the network has led to the development of a new digital health practice in university hospitals, mainly through teaching and research.