Jose Rodrigues Filho

  Fonte: UEM - Brasil            More than twenty years ago, we published a work showing the difficulties of developing a computerized electronic medical record system that could be used in the health care process, considering the lack of data standardization and the fact that an information system in health is a social system, which requires information available at the point and time of care. At that time, the practice was to develop systems of patient records that would serve the financial interests of hospitals, which are still used today. We have recently developed work on the difficulties of having sustainable health information technology and the coronavirus is showing that what we have are unsustainable technologies.1 Using the philosophy of Michel Foucault, Professor Colin Koopman, and colleagues from the University of Oregon, USA, carried out an in-depth study on the use of electronic medical records, published a few months ago, concluding that what we have today are data dir