Info saúde: uma aplicação mobile para auxiliar usuários da saúde pública no Brasil

Abstract

Over the years, the world in which we live has undergone several changes, among them the health sector and technology. These changes have awakened the need for rapid, accurate and available information at any time and place, providing a significant growth in the use of mobile applications in smartphones. In contrast, public health in Brazil still faces a number of problems can be cited: overcrowding of hospitals, bureaucracy in marking consultation, lack of medicines and doctors, and lack of accurate information on the location of establishments, and the specialties of physicians who work in the same. Information that is fundamental in the speed and precision of the patient’s decision. From this context, this project aimed to develop an app that contributes making available data about establishments and doctors working for services of the Brasilian Unified Health System. The software uses the data from the state of Pernambuco, which was obtained through the DATASUS website, which is an agency of the Department of Strategic and Participatory Management of the Ministry of Health, which has the responsibility of collecting, process and disseminate health information. The application still uses the Google database, Google firebase, which has several features, which used Authentication and Realtime Database among them, the first one that guarantees better control over the users and the second allowing a visualization and change in real time of the registered data, finally the establishments are geo represented in the application through api Google Maps. The application also counts, with the possibility of 2 users, the citizen, who can view the data, register a profile, inform dependents; and the administrator, who will be responsible for maintaining the data in app.