Project Details


WSIS Prizes Contest 2019 Nominee

E-Health Amazonas (Telessaude Amazonas)


Description

E-Health Amazonas is part of The National Telehealth Brazil Networks Program, which was established through the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health nº 35 of January 2007, and is coordinated by the Secretariats of Labor and Health Education (SGTES) and Health Care (SAS).
It enables the strengthening and improvement of the quality of primary care services in the Unified Health System (SUS), integrating Permanent Health Education (EPS) and health care support through information and communication technologies (ICT) tools and technologies. It is constituted by State, Intermunicipal and Regional Nuclei, that develop and offer specific services for professionals and workers of the SUS.
The Amazonas Telehealth Nucleus presents itself as a timely strategy for improving the quality of life of populations located in remote and culturally diverse areas, such as indigenous peoples and those inhabiting the most remote and isolated geographic spaces in the state of Amazonas and Brazil.

Project website

http://www.telessaudeam.org.br/site/


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Action lines related to this project
  • AL C7. E-health 2019
Sustainable development goals related to this project
  • Goal 3: Good health and well-being

Global digital compact (GDC) objectives related to this project None

Coverage
  • Amazonas, Brazil

Status

Ongoing

Start date

2007

End date

Not set


WSIS values promotion

E-health


Entity name

Ministry of Health

Entity country—type

Brazil Government

Entity website

http://portalms.saude.gov.br/trabalho-educacao-e-qualificacao/gestao-da-educacao/qualificacao-profissional/telessaude/nucleos-do-programa