Vol. 49 No. especial 1 ago (2025): Technologies for the digital transformation of the Unified Health System

The guest editors of the special issue ‘Technologies for the digital transformation of the Unified Health System’ present the journal, highlighting its relevance due to the panel of articles, essays, reviews, and experience reports on the digital transformation of the Unified Health System (SUS). […] given the high level of investment in health technologies, which does not always translate into improved services, especially in a complex scenario such as the SUS. The effective benefits of a technology depend directly on its adoption by users. The fourth industrial revolution, or Industry 4.0, proposes the fusion of technologies – physical, digital, or biological – in favor of innovation to improve society's living conditions, thereby impacting the development of products and services, including healthcare, which are now connected and personalized. […] The SUS can reap significant benefits from the sustainable adoption of new digital technologies, improving adherence, resolution, and responsiveness of services. This challenging environment offers opportunities for the development of the health sector in Brazil, whose vastness and regional differences demand solutions that are both comprehensive and customizable”.

Topics covered: Telemonitoring strategy in Basic Health Units during the COVID-19 pandemic; The usability of the e-SUS Território application in Brazil’s Digital Health Strategy; Serious games in continuing education for prenatal care; An mHealth application for foot care in people with Diabetes Mellitus; Usability of the eSUS Feedback system by managers of Primary Health Care units; Digital health in Primary Health Care in Brazil; Technologies into the COVID-19 work process in a favela in Rio de Janeiro; Older adults’ oral health follow-up in primary care: A teledentistry feasibility exploratory study; Geotechnologies for health decision-making: An analysis of vaccination indicators in Paraíba; SIGest: mHealth assistant for the clinical management of syphilis in pregnancy; Immunization Surveillance System in Brazil; teleconsultations to strengthening the Health Care Network in Santa Catarina; Access to removable dental prosthesis in public health through digital pathway in Rio de Janeiro; Using social media to detect public health rumors; Public health managers’ perception of the digital transformation of the SUS; Exploring SUS outpatient open data; Spatial technologies for identifying critical areas of TB-HIV coinfection: Application of Getis-Ord Gi*; Regional inequalities and low physician retention in Brazil; Fragmentation of data in the SUS: Interoperability in Recife and EBSERH; Health Economic-Industrial Complex, digital health in Primary Health Care and the risk of vulnerability 4.0; Digital health and COVID-19 response: Scoping review of solutions developed and implemented by BRICS countries; Predictive effect of digital phenotype on the diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder; Teleconsultations in the management of waiting lists for medical specialties in Southern Brazil.