Preservação e conservação dos prontuários do serviço de arquivo médico e estatística do Hospital Universitário Professor Alberto Antunes

Abstract

Document Management, together with preservation and conservation measures, minimizes time and space, speeds up information retrieval and reflects directly on the decision-making process of the managers of each and every institution. This article sought to study information management and mechanisms for the preservation and conservation of medical records from the Medical Archive and Statistics Service (SAME), at the Professor Alberto Antunes University Hospital of the Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL), with a view to safeguarding institutional memory . The methodology used was exploratory, with a qualitative approach and extensive bibliographic research. The data analysis points to: the need for greater efforts in order to provide adequate technological infrastructure for the Electronic Document Management process; important performance of professors and students of the Librarianship Course and; the institution's interest in the preservation and conservation of the medical records kept by SAME / HUPAA / UFAL.