A gestão em saúde e as ferramentas gerenciais: a experiência com o SISPLAN do Instituto Nacional de Câncer

Abstract

The management in the health area has been experiencing changes through time. The last two decades were concerned only to the growth and implementation of the staffing management system, with the use of computerized planning system as a kind of support to the management itself. Thus, this thesis takes the premises of the Management and the use of Managerial Tools as the basis of its research. Although, it is not a study of case, it is supported on a real managerial experience applied at National Cancer Institute of Rio de Janeiro. In this study, we observe that the health organizations used to be concerned only to the assistance, without worrying about the management itself. This thought has changed following the World Economical Crises in the 80 s, and after that, the health industry became concerned not only in the health management, but also in the professionalism of the manager. The usage of managerial tools in the heath system is also discussed in this thesis, due to the importance that is given to this subject. Nowadays, we debate a lot, the importance of a managerial tool in helping the planning and strategy to be presented as a model to the health organizations. In parallel to the discussion about the most used managerial systems in the companies and organizations of health, this study also discusses, as the most important focus, a managerial tool called SISPLAN of National Cancer Institute of Rio de Janeiro, a tool developed by this institution which has been restructuring the institutional spaces of decision and of politics discussion This research also shows that the application of SISPLAN made able the implementation of more relevant and priority projects. As a managerial tool, SISPLAN facilitated the development of a management system which was both participative and shared in all levels. Despite of improvements that are still necessary for the improvement of this tool, they are undeniable the achievements obtained in the course of this process. It can be realized, however, that spite of its features, SISPLAN doesn t seem to be a managerial tool which express the institution strategy, because it behaves as a planning tool. So, we concluded that according to balanced scorecard features, it must be associated to SISLAN as a complementary managerial tool which allows the construction of the strategy, based on a chain of cause and effect relations and on booster factors. This thesis aims to demonstrate, how essential is the availability of a managerial tool is essential for the success of the heath management.