Use of Educational Technologies in Health

Abstract

It is understood as Educational Technology a set of mediators devices of the teaching-learning process that must contain a logical organization, so that they can be systematically planned, observed, understood and transmitted. In this scenario, the objective of this study was to analyze the literature on Educational Technologies applied to Health. As an methodology, an integrative review was carried out, consisting of a broad analysis of theoretical and empirical literature that aims to understand a certain phenomenon from studies above. The search was carried out in the CAPES database, the main Brazilian database, between 2013-2018, in Portuguese, English, French and Spanish through the descriptors "Educational technologies" and "Health", which were duly translated into the other languages correspondents. As a result, 30 articles were analyzed in two moments: individually from a literature review protocol developed and validated by the author of the study and together from the Content Analysis technique. In general, sixteen dependent and four independent technologies were found and it was realized that they were validated mainly by specialists in the field and by the target audience for whom they were intended. The theoretical anchorage found in the literature for the basis of the development of technologies was the Arch of Mangueares and six categories of analysis were found that discuss their use. Thus, it is concluded that technologies help in the process of training health professionals and empowerment for the process of treatment of users of services. Resources such as the applications end up facilitating access to health services, and the insertion of new technologies, especially those mediated by the Internet, has modified the educational paradigms