Abbreviation | SBIS |
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Formation | November 1986 |
Type | Professional society |
Legal status | Active |
Purpose | Promoting development and interchange of ideas in health informatics |
Headquarters | Campinas |
Location |
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Region served | Latin America |
Membership | Approximately 780 associates |
Official language | Portuguese |
President | Dr. Cláudio Giulliano Alves da Costa |
Affiliations | International Medical Informatics Association |
Website | Official website |
The Sociedade Brasileira de Informática em Saúde (Brazilian Society of Health Informatics), abbreviated as SBIS, is a professional society created in November 1986 in Campinas, during the First Brazilian Congress on Health Informatics.[1] 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.).