Implementation Period: October 2024 to August 2026

Presentation and description:

The objective of NoHarm: Intelligence for Patient Safety is to improve health services management appraising for patient safety by integrating cutting edge technological solutions for Primary Health Care. 

The NoHarm software, developed by the executor, is a solution that combines technology and human resources to foster comprehensive care, assuring patient safety through multidisciplinary endeavors. The system connects to patients’ electronic records, focusing on prescriptions review, medicine interactions, tests with alterations, adverse events, chronic illnesses, apart from acting on treatment monitoring through SMS. 

Through artificial intelligence, the platform optimizes medicine prescriptions, treatment monitoring and handling of health requirements, making patient referrals easier and more assertive.

Besides, using real time control panels, the software improves monitoring and management of the health units, for example, to identify cases of extreme frequency at the unit  (patients with little connection or very frequent users) and for the management of queues and referrals.

The speed of specialized care for high-risk patients and improvements in regulation and APS performance in all the involved municipalities are among the expected results, with patients’ safety as one of the main areas of focus.

Beneficiary description:

Municipal Health Departments and Primary Care professionals of 20 municipalities of the North and Northeast regions of Brazil. In total, 210 Basic Health Units (UBSs) will be included, in the Northeast region and 89 in the North region. 

Municipalities served:

North region:

Pará (Afuá, Redenção, Salvaterra) and Roraima (Caracaraí).

Northeast region:

Alagoas (Jequiá da Praia, Maragogi, Penedo), Bahia (Barra, Ibirataia, Nilo Peçanha), Ceará (Caucaia, Monsenhor Tabosa), Maranhão (Açailândia, Itapecuru Mirim), Paraíba (Baia da Traição, São João do Cariri), Rio Grande do Norte (Rafael Fernandes), Pernambuco (Nossa Senhora do Socorro, São João), Piauí (Inhuma). 

To access the interactive map with the municipalities benefiting from the Program, click here.

The project is supported by Together for Health, an initiative by the National Bank of Economic and Social Development (BNDES), in partnership with private donors, to gather resources to expand healthcare access for the Brazilian population in the North and Northeast regions of the country.

Executor

The Institute of Artificial Intelligence in Health is a non-profit Civil Society Organization (CSO) with a focus in development of technologies to improve the health system in Brazil. This CSO deals with software research, education and development. All the technology developed is open code, which generates higher impact for society and is implemented for free on the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS). In 4 years, the institute has already impacted 1 million lives, helping in the pharmaceutical evaluation of prescriptions. Some 30k beds a day are monitored in more than 100 hospitals, of which 50% belong to SUS and get access to the system for free. The Institute is already present in 50 municipalities in 16 states of Brazil, including those of the proclamation, and the activities contribute to the United Nations (UN) SDG 3 – Health and Welfare – which aims at granting a healthy life and fostering wellbeing for people of all ages.

Supporters

The National Bank of Economic and Social Development (BNDES) is a federal public company linked to the Ministry of Development, Industry, Trade and Services. It is the Federal Government’s main instrument for long-term financing and investment in all segments of the Brazilian economy, with the aim of improving the lives of generations, promoting economic, social and environmental development. It operates throughout the country, from its office in Rio de Janeiro (RJ), where its activities are concentrated, with official headquarters in Brasília (DF) and regional offices in São Paulo (SP) and Recife (PE).

Umane is an independent, non-partisan and non-profit civil society organization that promotes initiatives in the field of public health with the aim of contributing to a more resolute Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS) and improving the quality of life of people living in Brazil. Umane operates through three programs: Comprehensive Care for Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases (DCNT), with initiatives to control risk factors, screening, expanding access to health and monitoring risk factors in Primary Health Care; Strengthening of Primary Health Care (APS) as the coordinator of care in SUS, through support for initiatives aimed at improving operations, team productivity, integration of services and the incorporation of new technologies into the health system; and the Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health program, funding programs that track and monitor unfavorable outcomes during pregnancy and health conditions of children and adolescents in the context of Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases and risk factors.

Manager

IDIS – Institute for the Development of Social Investment, is a civil society organization founded in 1999 and pioneer in technical support to social investors in Brazil. With the mission to inspire, support and promote strategic philanthropy and its impact, they serve individuals, families, companies, corporate and family run institutes and foundations, as well as with civil society organizations, in actions that transform realities and contribute to the reduction of social inequality in the country. Their actions are based on the tripod of generating knowledge, offering advisory and developing social impact projects that contribute to the strengthening of the ecosystem of strategic philanthropy and of giving culture.

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