Decision Support System for Inventory Management in Healthcare Organizations: A Case Study at the Brazilian National Cancer Institute.

Nowadays, the great majority of the healthcare organizations has been criticized due to the high costs and low efficiency and are facing a critical situation aggravated by unmet demand and aging population. Availability of medicines is one of the clearest indicators that a healthcare organization is working efficiently. Medicines represent a large portion of the costs in the health services due to the significant value of these products and their storage and control requirements. Shortages of inventory have become a severe problem at the Brazilian healthcare organizations. The purpose of this work is to present the deployment of a Decision Support System which supports real-time inventory control and medicine tracking providing transparency and accessibility of this critical information at the Brazilian National Cancer Institute.

Implementing an Oncology Decision Support System: The Case of the Brazilian National Cancer Institute.

Brazil has a complex situation in cancer treatment services. The incidence rates have reached around 600.000 new cases each year. The development of an Oncology Decision Support System (ODSS) that support cancer treatment is amongst the priorities in the cancer control program. The purpose of this article is to study the ODSS deployment at the Brazilian National Cancer Institute. The implementation of this Clinical Decision Support System employed on the management, processing, and analysis of Brazilian cancer clinical data can be considered a disruptive innovation which changes the clinical decision-making process radically.

Knowledge Management for Brazilian Cancer Care Services.

Nowadays Brazil has a complex cancer care scenario. There are nearly 600.000 new cancer cases each year in Brazil, and the huge majority of patients have some contact with hospital services. However, long waiting queues for diagnostics and treatments have become common. One of the critical success factors in a cancer treatment is early diagnosis. The reduction of waiting time to start therapeutic procedures is one of the main issues for improvement of patient's quality of life and possibilities of cure. The objective of this work is to describe the development of a decision support system that improves the identification of access alternatives, appointment scheduling and employment of available resources. The Theory of Constraints was used to identify bottlenecks in patient treatment flow and a Discrete Events Simulation model was used to reduce patients' waiting time to start cancer treatment.

Smart Oncology Care Networks: An Approach in Information Systems to Support Brazilian National Cancer Institute.

In last decades Information Technology (IT) has been established as the main tool to support processes. Medical area has noticed the opportunity for improvement and interacting with IT has enabled solid interdisciplinary instruments for improvement. The aim in this project is composed by an analysis of the relationship between the application of information technologies, oncological assistance and innovation. Next, the project will focus to present the case of a proposal to reformulate the national cancer care system, with IT and Innovation being the base instrument for this process.

Decision Support Systems in Cancer Treatment: A Case Study at Brazilian National Cancer Institute.

Nowadays Brazil has a complex cancer care scenario. There are nearly 600.000 new cancer cases each year in Brazil, and the huge majority of patients have some contact with hospital services. However, long waiting queues for diagnostics and treatments have become common. One of the critical success factors in a cancer treatment is early diagnosis. The reduction of waiting time to start therapeutic procedures is one of the main issues for improvement of patient's quality of life and possibilities of cure. The objective of this work is to describe the development of a decision support system that improves the identification of access alternatives, appointment scheduling and employment of available resources. The Theory of Constraints was used to identify bottlenecks in patient treatment flow and a Discrete Events Simulation model was used to reduce patients' waiting time to start cancer treatment.

Ambiente de Informações para Apoio à Decisão dos Gestores do Controle do Câncer de Mama

O controle do Câncer em nosso país representa, atualmente, um dos grandes desafios da Saúde Pública porque, além de ser a segunda causa de morte por doença, demanda a realização de ações de variados níveis de complexidade e, em contrapartida à dimensão de seus números, demonstra ter uma visibilidade inadequada pela sociedade brasileira e mesmo por parte dos profissionais de saúde. Com o objetivo de contribuir para o enfrentamento deste amplo desafio, a Gestão da Informação e a Gestão do Conhecimento apresentam um conjunto de processos, técnicas e ferramentas cuja aplicação pode representar um avanço na gestão das ações de Saúde Pública. Paradoxalmente em relação à profusão de dados, há uma dificuldade do gestor do SUS em obter informações relevantes para o processo de tomada de decisão, seja por sua falta, insuficiência, redundância, inconsistência e, principalmente, pela sua fragmentação. Esta foi à questão motivadora deste estudo e que conduziu à hipótese de sugerir a organização de um ambiente de informação, inovador, criado no ciberespaço, utilizando intensivamente tecnologias da informação, articulados com métodos de modelagem estatística, modelagem matemática e à inteligência computacional incorporando a perspectiva espacial e temporal e conceitos da Gestão da Informação e Gestão do Conhecimento. O objetivo principal deste ambiente e, portanto, do presente trabalho é a construção do modelo de um ambiente informacional que sirva como uma ferramenta que auxilie o gestor do SUS na tomada de decisão para o controle do câncer de mama no Brasil.

Cancer control in Brazil currently represents one of the greatest challenges of Public Health. Despite cancer’s current position as second cause of death by illness, the necessary effort to accomplish a variety of complex actions and, increase of cancer incidence increase, there is however an inadequate visibility by Brazilian society and health professionals. In order to contribute to this broad challenging debate, Information Management (IM) and Knowledge Management (KM) techniques and tools available could be applied to Public Health management and hence allow improvement. Contrastively to the profusion of Public Health data, it has been difficult for managers of the Brazilian Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde - SUS) to have access to decision making information, due to either unavailability, insufficiency, redundancy, inconsistency and, mainly, fragmentation of the available information. These were questions that motivated this study and lead to the hypothesis of organizing an information environment that would be innovational, created in virtual space (Internet), intensive use of information technologies, coupled by modeling statistics methods, mathematical modeling and incorporation of spatial and time based computational intelligence and, lastly, inclusion of IM and KM concepts. The main objective of this environment and, therefore, of the present work is the construction of a information environment model that assists the SUS manager to decision making for breast cancer control in Brazil.

Ambiente de informações para apoio à decisão dos gestores do controle do câncer de mama / Environmental information to support decision makers in control of breast cancer

O controle do Câncer em nosso país representa, atualmente, um dos grandesdesafios da Saúde Pública porque, além de ser a segunda causa de morte por doença, demanda a realização de ações de variados níveis de complexidade e, em contrapartida à dimensão de seus números, demonstra ter uma visibilidade inadequada pela sociedade brasileira e mesmo por parte dos profissionais de saúde. Com o objetivo de contribuir para o enfrentamento deste amplo desafio, a Gestão da Informação e a Gestão do Conhecimento apresentam um conjunto de processos, técnicas e ferramentas cuja aplicação pode representar um avanço na gestão das ações de Saúde Pública. Paradoxalmente em relação à profusão de dados, há uma dificuldade do gestor do SUS em obter informações relevantes para o processo de tomada de decisão, seja por sua falta, insuficiência, redundância, inconsistência e, principalmente, pela sua fragmentação. Esta foi à questão motivadora deste estudo e que conduziu à hipótese de sugerir a organização de um ambiente de informação, inovador, criado no ciberespaço, utilizando intensivamente tecnologias da informação, articulados com métodos demodelagem estatística, modelagem matemática e à inteligência computacional incorporando a perspectiva espacial e temporal e conceitos da Gestão da Informação eGestão do Conhecimento. O objetivo principal deste ambiente e, portanto, do presente trabalho é a construção do modelo de um ambiente informacional que sirva como uma ferramenta que auxilie o gestor do SUS na tomada de decisão para o controle do câncerde mama no Brasil.