Telehealth in Brazil: Contemporary Tool for Access to Health.

This work raises questions about telehealth in Brazil, especially the areas of diagnosis, treatment and monitoring at distance, emphasizing its importance for the improvement of health conditions. It was based on a literature review. Three successful experiences were selected as examples: The Minas Gerais Project Telecardio, the São Paulo University Teleaudiology and Telerehabilitiation of UnB.

[Evaluation of emergency services of the hospitals from the QualiSUS program].

The aid lent by the emergency services is the object of this paper, which aims to assess the emergency service of the QualiSUS program. The study is descriptive with the application of a questionnaire to the responsible of the emergency services in eight hospitals. The emergency services were always overcrowded, and the causes pointed were the low resolutivity of basic attention and the precariousness of the hospital network.