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A SYSTEM FOR THE AUTOMATION OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH CARE SERVICES IN A DEVELOPING COUNTRY

Jaime O. Ilha, Celso R. Nascimento and Renato M.E. Sabbatini

Center for Biomedical Informatics, State University of Campinas, Brazil.


Computerized occupational health control systems (OHCS) could play an important rôle in the better control of the population's health status in a developing country, but cannot be easily adapted from other countries. The aim of the present work was to develop a complete and integrated OHCS for a large Brazilian state-owned corporation, in order to increase the efficiency and completeness of the health records and to automate several aspects of the increasingly complex and costly administrative routines related to the worker's medical insurance compensations. The resulting system has changed innovatively these routines, promoting a reduction on the global workload of the medical service, allowing statistical and epidemiological controls and other kinds of preventive actions at primary health care, which were not previously possible with a manual system. It is a modular, hardware-independent and field-customizable system, which can be adopted by companies of any size, thus increasing its impact on the efficiency and practices of occupational health control. In addition, through its philosophy of distributed networking and on-line processing, it encourages direct interaction with medical personnel. Proceedings of the Sixth World Congress on Medical Informatics (Singapore, December 1989). Amsterdam: North Holland Publ., 1989.


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