Historical background, current situation and perspectives of the information system in medical sciences of Ciego de Ávila
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SISTEMAS DE INFORMACIÓN/HISTORIA, BIBLIOTECAS MÉDICAS/HISTORIA, CENTROS DE INFORMACIÓN/HISTORIAAbstract
Introduction: the health project for all is supported by the information system in medical sciences in the province of Ciego de Ávila.
Objective: to identify the historical background, current situation and perspectives of the information system of medical sciences of Ciego de Ávila.
Method: a qualitative study was carried out from 2015 to 2018, using methods such as the historical-logical and the analytical-synthetic, documentary analysis techniques, semi-structured interviews to managers, retirees and workers in the sector and the chronological sub-method. For the analysis of the data, the triangulation technique was used.
Results: the antecedents were described since 1951 with the first medical library in the territory, the development of the library network and the Provincial Information Center since its creation in 1977, up to the present. Information is provided on the specialized human resources of the provincial information network, the services provided, the development of MediCiego magazine, the initiatives, the development of the research, the publication and the scope of the provincial web portal.
Conclusions: the development of the information system in medical sciences in the province of Ciego de Ávila has been sustained from the historical point of view in the own emergence and stepped progress achieved by the Provincial Information Center of Medical Sciences and its network of institutional libraries, where the national informational policy of the health sector and the efforts of managers and workers in its implementation have been decisiveDownloads
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