Brazilian Society of Health Informatics
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Created in November 1986 in Campinas, during the First Brazilian Congress on Health Informatics, this professional society has the mission of promoting the development and the interchange of ideas and results in the fields devoted to the information technologies applied to the health sciences (Medical informatics, Telemedicine, Bioinformatics, etc.).
The Society (abbreviated in Portuguese as SBIS -- Sociedade Brasileira de Informática em Saúde) organizes since 1986 a biannual national conference, the Brazilian Congress of Health Informatics and a biannual specialized conference on Electronic Patient Records; besides other, smaller and less periodical meetings. Its flagship publication is the on-line scientific journal, Journal of Health Informatics (Heimar Marin, Editor-in-Chief). It also puhlishes SBIS News, an electronic bulletin hosted by YahooGroups (Renato M.E. Sabbatini, editor-in-chief), and coordinates the SBIS-L discusssion list.
Currently it has around 780 associates.
The current Executive Board (2007-2008) is led by Dr. Cláudio Giulliano Alves da Costa (President). Former presidents were: Roberto J. Rodrigues, Renato M.E. Sabbatini, Mariza Machado Klück, Beatriz de Faria Leão, Daniel Sigulem, Umberto Tachinardi, Lincoln de Assis Moura Jr. and Heimar de Fátima Marin.
The Society is affiliated to the International Medical Informatics Association since 1988.
