André Luiz Teixeira Vinci

• PhD
• Technical Specialist in Biomedical Informatics at University of São Paulo

Introduction: Rare diseases (RD) are characterized by low prevalence, affecting fewer than 1 in 2,000 individuals, yet impacting millions globally. In Brazil, RD management is challenged by geographic disparities and unequal access to care. To address these gaps, the Brazilian Rare Diseases Network (RARAS) developed a Minimum Data Set (MDS) to stan...

Background: Digital governance in health research is crucial for ensuring data quality, accessibility, and interoperability, particularly in the context of rare diseases. Establishing a National Rare Diseases Registry in Brazil faces structural and technological challenges. The Brazilian Rare Disease Network (RARAS) proposes an innovative digital g...

According to the World Health Organization, rare diseases currently represent a global public health priority. Although it has a low prevalence in the general population, this type of condition collectively affects up to 10% of the entire world population. Therefore, these pathologies are numerous and of a diverse nature, and some factors imply sig...

We aim to present the use and viability of mental health indicators at a Brazilian reference psychiatric hospital. We elaborated a Business Process Model and Notation based model of the patients’ hospitalization process based on semi-structured interviews with managers and professionals of the hospital. We analyzed the model and selected a set of 6...

Objective: to identify indicators that can be used in the management of Mental Health Services. Method: an integrative review in which we adopted the Population, Concept, and Context strategy to formulate the following Guiding Question: “Which indicators can be used for the management of mental health services?”. Results: a total of 22 articles w...

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), mental and behavioral disorders are increasingly common and currently affect on average 1/4 of the world’s population at some point in their lives, economically impacting communities and generating a high social cost that involves human and technological resources. Among these problems, in Brazil, t...

Mental health is an integral part of people’s health and well-being, but, in many countries, policies and legislation are not widely developed enough to include all the people with mental health problems and their families. In 2011, the Unified Health System (SUS) established the Psychosocial Care Networks (RAPS) in Brazil. However, no standardized...

Evidence regarding quality indicators in primary health care is a major need for better mental health management, monitoring and decision-making. In this paper, we compared two methods of retrieving quality indicators for mental health in primary care by means of an umbrella review, that included eight systematic reviews, and of grey literature. Fr...

Mental health indicators are essential for monitoring people’s mental health status, developing mental health policies, and evaluating the performance of such policies. The aim of this paper is to describe the development of a web-based tool for mental health indicators capable to support the management of Brazilian mental health care networks. The...

In 2011, Brazil instituted the Psychosocial Care Network (RAPS) for people suffering from mental disorders and needs arising from the use of alcohol and other drugs within the Unified Health System an electronic information system that supports the planning, regulation, control and evaluation of mental health actions. Several studies have been done...

Introduction Business process management has gained importance in organizations for providing improved productivity and cost reduction, with process modeling being the central role. Usually, with reduced resources, the health area can benefit from good management of its processes. Objective To identify proposals for improvements in the process of...

Systemic Arterial Hypertension (SAH) is a risk factor for 9.4 million deaths worldwide. In Brazil, the condition attributes an annual cost of approximately USD640,000,000 to the SUS. The epidemiological and economic analysis of Pharmaceutical Care (PC) in the management of hypertensive patients showed an improvement in blood pressure control, a red...

In 2011, Brazil’s mental health care networks were instituted; nevertheless, standardized arrangements or indicators for network evaluation and management were not established. Hence, a proposed model to evaluate municipal and regional management of such networks was elaborated. One of its steps consists of semi-structured interviews aiming the net...

The purpose of the present work is to describe the research protocol used as the basis for a proposal to build an international consensus matrix of mental health indicators for a mental health care networks. The criteria inclusion of the indicators is the usage and the result of that usage in selected countries. Proposed steps: review of mental hea...

Background: Regional networking between services that provide mental health care in Brazil’s decentralized public health system is challenging, partly due to the simultaneous existence of services managed by municipal and state authorities and a lack of efficient and transparent mechanisms for continuous and updated communication between them. Since...

The Brazilian public health system instituted the mental health care networks in 2011. Thus, the goal of this paper is to describe the research methods used as basis for a proposal of an evaluation model of municipal and regional management of a Mental Health Care Network that comprises computerized information systems and specific indicators. Prop...

The Regional Health Care Observatory (Observatório Regional de Atenção Hospitalar-ORAH) processes data from 34 hospitals at Ribeirão Preto's region through a web portal. This article describes the set of computational tools for data analysis contained in ORAH. Indeed, the presented tools include innovative analytical methods in hospital context all...

Resumo: Atualmente, a situação da violência e dos acidentes é considerada um dos maiores problemas de saúde pública e, com isso, o Ministério da Saúde mantém o Sistema de Vigilância de Violências e Acidentes (VIVA) desde 2006. O Inquérito VIVA, realizado bianualmente, tem a digitação dos dados como uma importante fonte de erros. Com isso, um sistem...