The impact of health technology management for the national policy on technological innovation in health – PNITS

Abstract

The objectives of PNITS are, among others, to promote the SUS’s (Brazilian Unified Health System) technological and economic sustainability, with the definition of structural conditions to increase the country’s productive and innovation capacity, aiming to contribute to the expansion of access to health. It seeks to encourage innovation and scientific and technological research in the productive environment and promote technological capacity building, technological autonomy and the development of the national and regional productive system in the health area. The main challenge is to reduce the country’s external dependence and productive and technological vulnerability related to strategic products and services for SUS. The PNITS establishes the criteria for the use of state purchasing power in order to rationalize health expenditures and induce scientific, technological and industrial development, trying to reach SUS sustainability and the consolidation of the CIS (Industrial Health Complex) in Brazil. The public administration lacks subsidies that Clinical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering are able to provide, in order to avoid an asymmetric dynamic of negotiations between State and market.