Organização de prontuários de pacientes em Unidades de Saúde da Família de Maceió-Alagoas

Abstract

It discusses the importance of organizing information in the context of health, with the general objective of studying the conditions of organization of patient records in two family health units, located in the city of Maceió, state of Alagoas, Brazil. The methodology used in this research is based on exploratory research with a qualitative approach. The data collection instruments were observation and a questionnaire applied to the employees who work in the archive of the researched health units. It concludes that the number of professionals is considered sufficient to meet the demands of the unit, but none has undergone any type of training related to the organization of medical records to work in the sector. It also concludes that there is a need to modernize the techniques for storing and retrieving medical records with the introduction of digital technologies, such as the electronic patient record.