Brazilian Society of Health Informatics
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The Sociedade Brasileira de Informática em Saúde (Brazilian Society of Health Informatics in Portuguese, abbreviated as SBIS is a professional society created in November 1986 in Campinas, during the First Brazilian Congress on Health Informatics. It 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.)
Currently it has around 780 associates, thus being the third largest in the Americas, after the American Medical Informatics Association and the Canada's Health Informatics Association, and the largest in Latin America, according to the International Medical Informatics Association[1].
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.
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[edit] Conferences and Meetings
SBIS organizes since 1986 a biannual national conference, the Brazilian Congress of Health Informatics and a biannual specialized conference on ~Electronic Health Records (PEP); besides other, smaller and less periodical meetings.
[edit] Publications
SBIS' flagship periodical is the on-line scientific journal, Journal of Health Informatics (Heimar Marin, Editor-in-Chief). It also publishes SBIS News, an electronic bulletin hosted by Yahoo! Groups (Renato M.E. Sabbatini, editor-in-chief), and coordinates the SBIS-L e-mail discussion list.
[edit] Electronic Health Record Certification Project
In collaboration with the Brazilian Federal Council of Medicine since 2007, SBIS has developed one of few programs in the developing world geared towards the software certification in the area of electronic health records. The standards for access, information security, digital certification, patient confidentiality, storage of records, etc., have been discussed together and officially approved by a number of decrees enforced by CFM and are part now of a Manual, a course for buildup of a task force of specialized consultants. The certification standards cover ambulatory healthcare, clinical laboratory and other areas, and in the future will be expanded for inpatient health records and PACS.
[edit] Professional Certificate in Health Informatics
In October 2009 the Society launched a program for certificating health care professionals as specialists, in a manner similar to medical specialties coordinated by the [{ [Brazilian Medical Association]] and the Federal Council of Medicine in Brazil. The program entails a minimum list of technical proficiency, a written and oral annual examination, and the issue of a certificate which is valid for five years. The revalidation of the certificate will be mandatory by means of continued education credits. The Society installed also an educational accreditation program in place, for recognizing courses and curricula in health informatics, for this purpose, with a point-based system of credits. The entire program is under the responsibility of a new Directorship of Professional Education, coordinated by Prof. Renato M.E. Sabbatini.
[edit] Address and Contact Information
Rua Tenente Gomes Ribeiro, 57 - sala 33 - Vila Clementino
Telephone/Fax (11) 3791-3343
São Paulo - SP
ZIP code: 04038-040
E-mail: sbis@sbis.org.br
[edit] Related links
- SBIS Home Page
- Journal of Health Informatics Home Page
- Distance Education Site
- Email Discussion Group
- Electronic news bulletin
- LinkedIn SBIS Group
- Orkut community page
