Sistema de monitoramento de dengue do município de São José dos Campos

Abstract

The registered dengue epidemic in Brazil in the last years warned public health professionals to develop more agile tools and easily accessible to subsidize the control and the flow of the disease notification. It was observed the need of creating tools and methodologies that allow the professional obtaining the necessary information in coherent time to health assistance and epidemic control. This paper describes the experience of a pilot project implemented in two basic health unities and an emergency car unity. After the project succeed, the system was implemented in all public health unities of the municipality, allowing the patient monitoring and his attending to be accessed in real time, at one website only, by all the region health network.