Promoter – Póvoa de Varzim – Vila do Conde Hospital Center, EPE
Action – O Hospital vai à praia
Description – During the summer season and, in particular, during August, the traditional vacation month, Póvoa de Varzim – Vila do Conde Hospital Center launches a campaign called “O Hospital vai à praia”.
Based on the assumption of promoting digital health literacy, the initiative will be based on the work of small teams, under the aegis of the Patient Management Service, which – equipped with mobile devices – will be present on the municipalities’ beaches, with arguments to raise awareness and register of bathers on the Hospital Center website – #Sigame – along with an identical registration, involving the citizen area of the SNS website Anywhere, there are online features that can be activated and that contribute a lot, not only to the comfort of the user, but also to their safety, in a context of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The #SIGAME website, available at www.chpvvc.min-saude.pt, has a chat option that the user can use to ask questions, make appointments, obtain statements, or access a teleconsultation, among other features.
The portal is part of a comprehensive project around goals related to the dematerialization and promotion of digital health literacy, called Horus.
Under this designation, there is a whole work in progress, based on protocols with local authorities, and which bets on the training of human resources to promote, precisely, health literacy.
To take advantage of the summer and promote new practices of interaction with the SNS, “O Hospital vai à praia”.
More information at: https://sigame.chpvvc.min-saude.pt/