This qualitative study aimed to identify and analyze the contributions of the Technical Group on Health Information and Populations for the construction of the National Information and Health Informatics. Developed a research document from the reports of the workshops of group under the Brazilian Congress on Collective Health , in the period 1992-2013. After preliminary analysis, we proceeded to the Content Analysis of the documents. It was found that the group has contributed to the construction of PNIIS proposing: the appreciation of the socio-cultural context involving information policy, the need to build an information policy for the area collectively, plural and collective management; redemption of information as a right for all and the need to break with the model of information management hegemonic in Brazil , the definition of master plans with a view to overcome the difficulties recognized in the field of information and health informatics . It is concluded that despite the contributions of group for building policy for health information , it has not been legitimized . You need to advance in their definition and recognition in all spheres of government as well as the locus of care.
Information Policy; Health Informatics; Health Information