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Digital health and a single electronic health record

your health history goes with you

Proposes implementing a single electronic health record linked to the CPF and Gov.br, interoperable between public and private networks, and using artificial intelligence to speed up SUS scheduling.

In the program: [p. 25, 26] · Translated by Flaviopédia from the official Portuguese text; the Portuguese quote is authoritative. Read the original in Portuguese

What the program says

Every year, thousands of Brazilians die of diseases that could have been treated in time, because information about their own health is scattered across papers, systems and facilities that do not talk to each other. The doctor providing care today does not know what another doctor has already found. This work was started under the Bolsonaro Government: we created Conecte SUS and the national network that gave citizens access to their history and began connecting the country’s health systems. Now we will complete it. We will implement the single electronic health record, linked to the CPF (the national taxpayer ID) and integrated with Gov.br (the federal digital-services portal), interoperable between the public and private networks, with a complete history of appointments, tests, vaccinations and prescriptions, always in compliance with patient consent, the LGPD (Brazil’s data-protection law), medical confidentiality and security protocols The gain is direct and can save your life. The emergency-room doctor will know immediately which medicines you take and what you are allergic to. The specialist will not order again the test you had last month, nor make you wait another month for the result. A problem detected at the local health clinic does not get lost on the way to the hospital. You stop carrying paper folders and repeating the same story at every visit, and start being treated by someone who already knows your case. Along with this, we will complete the digitization of the SUS (the public health system) and use artificial intelligence to speed up the scheduling of appointments and tests, helping to fit the patient into the first available slot, so that no one is left waiting months for a booking that could be settled in much less time. [p. 25, 26]

In plain language

  • The text states that health information is scattered across papers, systems and facilities that do not talk to each other, and cites Conecte SUS as the start of this work.
  • The program proposes a single electronic health record, linked to the CPF, integrated with Gov.br and interoperable between the public and private networks.
  • The record would bring together appointments, tests, vaccinations and prescriptions, observing patient consent, the LGPD, medical confidentiality and security protocols.
  • According to the text, the doctor would know immediately which medicines the patient takes and what they are allergic to, and the specialist would not order tests already done again.
  • It also provides for completing the digitization of the SUS and using artificial intelligence to speed up the scheduling of appointments and tests, fitting the patient into the first available slot.

What is not in the program

  • It gives no timeline for implementing the single record or for completing the digitization of the SUS.
  • It does not detail how the private network would be integrated into the record, whether through mandatory or voluntary participation.
  • It does not define which professionals or institutions would have access to the record and under what conditions, beyond the mention of patient consent.
  • It presents no waiting-time target for appointments and tests.
  • It gives no cost or funding source.