INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN HEALTH: CLINICAL INFORMATION FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONALS

Ensuring the quality of care is presented as a major goal of clinical information systems, assisting in decision-making between the various professionals involved in customer service. Continuity of care is one of essesnciais aspects in the procedures for assessing the quality of health services, which affirms the importance of clinical information in this context. The objective of this study is to describe the meaning of the clinical information as a working tool for health professionals to better Evidence Based Practice (EBP). This is a theoretical study, the data collection was based Scielo. In search results of articles indexed on this basis were 115 articles of which 12 included to describe the clinical information as a working tool. It was understood that a good source of data is required and the professional to be aware of the quality of information. We conclude that clinical information is an essential tool for proper conduct but care is necessary to organize the information so that is effective for the decision making.