Project in public health has started

** report 2-2009

In the begin of 2009 the Sergipe's Secretariat of Health has started a project aiming on the use of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) for improving management of public health. The focus of this project is related to epidemiology monitoring as well as it will make possible the digital collect of informations related to families habits (nutrition, children growth, among other informations).

Santa Luzia was selected to host the 1^st full pilot experience and IPTI is involved with the statistics and geo referencing analysis. This project is very important within the context of The Human Project due some reasons:

• this technology has the potential to facilitate a lot local health management, which means improve efficiency, better decision making, reducing waste of energy and resources;
• it will be possible to count with a detailed data bank about health and nutritional information which can be correlated with education, for instance, helping us to systematize the social technologies we want to develop and disseminate;
• we expect to start developing an experience on e-governance soon and public health management is planned to be our first pilot use case.