Brazil: the emerging epicenter of COVID-19 pandemic

Abstract INTRODUCTION Five months after the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Brazil, the country has the second highest number of cases in the world. Without any scientifically proven drug or vaccine available combined with COVID-19's high transmissivity, slowing down the spread of the infection is a challenge. In an attempt to save the economy, the Brazilian government is slowly beginning to allow non-essential services to reopen for in-person customers. METHODS: In this study, we analyze, based on data analysis and statistics, how other countries evolve and under which conditions they decided to resume normal activity. In addition, due to the heterogeneity of Brazil, we explore Brazilian data of COVID-19 from the State Health Secretaries to evaluate the situation of the pandemic within the states. RESULTS: Results show that while other countries have flattened their curves and present low numbers of active cases, Brazil continues to see an increase in COVID-19 patients. Furthermore, a number of important states are easing restrictions despite a high percentage of confirmed cases. CONCLUSIONS: All analyses show that Brazil is not ready for reopening, and the premature easing of restrictions may increase the number of COVID-19-related deaths and cause the collapse of the public health system.

Avaliação de uma aplicação openEHR utilizando RESTful web services / Evaluation of an openEHR application using RESTful web services

A padronização dos Registros Eletrônicos em Saúde (RES) tem sido amplamente requerida desde de sua regulamentação pelo Ministério da Saúde. Neste contexto, o modelo de referência openEHR foi definido para a padronização dosRES. OBJETIVO: Avaliar a viabilidade de uma aplicação RESTful utilizando o openEHR (cwOpenEhr RestApi). MÉTODOS: O tempo de Requisição-Resposta (TRR) do cwOpenEhrRestApi foi comparado com uma aplicação que não utiliza REST e com um tempo máximo aceitável por um usuário (15 segundos). RESULTADOS: Há indicação de que o TRR do cwOpenEhrRestApifoi menor do que o tempo máximo aceitável. Além disso, o TRR foi diferente ao de uma aplicação que não utilizou RESTful. CONCLUSÃO: A utilização de RESTful com openEHR foi considerada viável, uma vez que, embora exista uma diferença estatisticamente significativa do TRR com relação à abordagem sem RESTful, o TRR do cwOpenEhrRestApi foi significativamente menor que o tempo máximo aceitável por um usuário.

Standardize Electronic Health Records (EHR) has been widely required since its regulation by the Brazilian Ministry of Health. In this context, openEHR's reference model has been defined to standardize the EHR. OBJECTIVE: Evaluate the feasibility of a RESTful openEHR solution (cwOpenEhrRestApi). METHODS: The Request-Response Time(RRT) of cwOpenEhrRestApi was compared to an application that does not use RESTful and to a maximum acceptable time for a user (15 seconds). RESULTS: There is an indication that the RRT of cwOpenEhrRestApi was lower than the maximum acceptable time. Furthermore, the time was different to a non-based RESTful application. CONCLUSION: The use ofRESTful with openEHR was considered feasible, since, despite the fact that there is a statistically significant differenceregarding the non-based RESTFul RRT, the RRT of cwOpenEhrRestApi was significantly lower than the maximum acceptabletime for a user.