The city of Sobral, state of Ceará, Brazil, introduced, in the year 2000, multi-professional teams in the Family Health Program PSF. These teams aimed to potentialize the actions of PSF and to guarantee the integrality of care in promotion, prevention, assistance and rehabilitation. One of the difficulties encountered in the work process of these categories was the absence of an information system that registered the activities executed by the teams. Understanding that information represents an important space for health development and production, a group was formed to elaborate a machine and software for the information system. This group was composed of professionals from the Municipal Health Department, from the municipality's computer sector and interns of the Family Health School. The instrument that was created contains patient profiles, register of activities and of procedures, as well as notifiable complaints that were being defined. After the creation of the instrument, the software was developed. The operational system used was Linux, PHP language, POSTGRESQL database, and it is accommodated on an APACHE web server. The system was called SINAI at the beginning and provides important data for the development of indicators by various professionals, guaranteeing the production of epidemical information necessary for the process of control, evaluation and planning of team actions.
Information System; Epidemiology; Family Health Program; Integrality
