The focus is on improving the patient experience. Innovations can be integrated into the public system throughout Brazil.
Hospital das Clínicas of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of São Paulo (HCFMUSP) and the UK government have entered into a partnership to develop a digital health plan, a collaboration that is part of the Better Health Programme (BHP), a UK health programme collaboration with Brazil. The aim is to develop digital health solutions that increase efficiency and quality in healthcare patient care and monitoring and that can be implemented across the country’s SUS (Unified Health System) network.
The project will last for two years (between 2021 and 2022). The partnership between the British government and the Brazilian government is based on three pillars: improving care in primary care; implementing the digital tools developed for all levels of care in the health network and training professionals in the public health system and adapting to the country's regional reality, especially in primary care.
One of the goals is to implement 40% of healthcare patient care remotely, from appointment scheduling to monitoring chronic patients. Another goal is to implement the pilot program for remote primary care in ten municipalities. Furthermore, it is also planned to establish ten digital care lines within the health center; and to remotely organize emergency and emergency cases for 30,000 patients per year.
To Prof. Dr. Giovanni Guido Cerri, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Institute of Radiology (InRad) and the Innovation Committee of HCFMUSP – “The implementation of the Digital Health Plan will lead to significant progress in improving the care provided to the Brazilian community, by creating replicable digital solution models to improve the patient experience and be more efficient throughout the care journey.”
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