POTENTIALITIES AND CHALLENGES OF THE INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN PRIMARY HEALTH CARE VACCINATION ROOMSObjective: To investigate the potentialities and challenges of information systems used in Primary Health Care vaccination rooms in municipalities of the Maciço de Baturité, Ceará, from December 2024 to January 2025.
Methods: This is a descriptive, cross-sectional, observational, and quantitative study, conducted between December 2024 and January 2025 in 23 vaccination rooms of the Primary Health Care system in Itapiúna, Capistrano, Aracoiaba, and Acarape/Ceará. Data collection took place in two stages: application of a structured questionnaire and systematic observation using a script adapted from the Vaccination Room Supervision Instrument Assessment Program (PAISS). Donabedian's dimensions of structure and process guided the analysis, which was performed in Microsoft Excel for tabulation and in the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences for calculating frequencies and measures of central tendency.
Results: It was found that 82.61% of the rooms use the National Immunization Program Information System (SI-PNI) and systems integrated with the Primary Care Information System (SISAB), demonstrating progress in the services computerization. However, weaknesses were observed in the completion of specific forms for adverse events (62.22%) and in the evaluation of suspected immunobiologicals (52.17%), as well as low participation of the entire team in monitoring routines (26.09%).
Conclusions: The functional adequacy of health information systems in the analyzed context was verified, although limitations persist regarding the strategic use of data and the consolidation of systematic monitoring and surveillance routines in primary health care vaccination rooms.
DESCRIPTORS:
Health Information Systems; Immunization Programs; Primary Health Care; Public Health Surveillance; Nursing