Brazilian Society of Health Informatics

Sociedade Brasileira de Informática em Saúde (SBIS)
AbbreviationSBIS
FormationNovember 1986
TypeProfessional society
Legal statusActive
PurposePromoting development and interchange of ideas in health informatics
HeadquartersCampinas
Location
  • Brazil
Region served
Latin America
Membership
Approximately 780 associates
Official language
Portuguese
President
Dr. Cláudio Giulliano Alves da Costa
AffiliationsInternational Medical Informatics Association
WebsiteOfficial 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.).

  1. ^ "Sabbatini, RME: Associações de Informática em Saúde. Revista Informédica, 2 (10): 13-14, 1994 (In Portuguese)". Archived from the original on 2010-10-10. Retrieved 2010-01-08.