DATAFICATION TECHNOLOGIES AND THE PRIVATIZATION OF BRAZILIAN HEALTH
This thesis investigates, from a dialectical point of view between economy, governmentality and culture, the advance in the use of digital technologies, based on metadata, in the health sector in Brazil, suggesting an articulation between datafication processes and neoliberalism for the consolidation of a fully privatized health in the country. In order to answer the central question of the research, which concerns the way in which this articulation has developed, a bibliographic review is carried out on digital technologies based on datafication processes and theories about neoliberalism and its governance, corroborating the perspective of the State as a fundamental agent in the privatization process of the health sector. Then, there is a brief history and analysis of the creation, development and updates of two official documents of the Ministry of Health, the National Policy on Health Information and Informatics (PNIIS) and the Digital Health Strategy for Brazil, mainly observing the transformations that have taken place regarding the applicability of datafication technologies and the overlap between the public and the private sector in the health sector, whether in the acquisition of digital technologies or in the exchange of data between the public and private areas that make up the sector in the Brazil. Next, an analysis is presented, based on documents and interviews, on how the employability of datafication has been fundamental for the profitability and centralization of capital by companies that make up the Brazilian Supplementary Health ecosystem. Finally, this thesis presents an organization chart referring to the scenario that presents itself of privatization of the health sector and addresses a brief reflection on the importance of critical studies on the applicability of datafication technologies in the health sector.