Torres FJP, Gallo MJG, Hallo ARF, Abcarius JJ, Muriel PMH, Fernández LA

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ABSTRACT

Introduction: The management of information is one of the modern tools to facilitate processes within organizations, especially decision making. In the health sector, given the importance of mastering the most recent advances in healthcare practice, it is essential to guarantee proactivity in satisfying the needs of patients, family members and other interest groups.
Objective: The objective of the article is to determine, from the use of the SMIC method, the most probable scenarios in relation to the use of information management as a tool of decision making in public health organizations.
Methods: The prospective SMIC method was applied, based on the consultation of 12 experts from six Ibero-American countries, in order to determine the combinations of future hypotheses (scenarios) most likely in relation to the study topic.
Results: The processing done by the SMIC software allowed to determine that the most probable and influential future hypothesis about the rest is related to the existence of adequate technological tools and platforms (H4), while that related to the fact that the information is handled as a critical resource of Health organizations and facilitate innovation (H1) is the least likely and dependent. The scenario where none of the hypotheses were met in the future was the most probable (P = 0.503).
Conclusions: The study made it possible to highlight the need to streamline the health sector policies so that information management has the necessary and appropriate bases (systems, platforms, trained human resources, among others) to become an effective tool for the decision making process of decisions.