Mission and Areas of Interest
SBIS is a nonprofit membership organization of individuals and institutions interested in developing and using information technologies to improve health care in Brazil. To accomplish its goal, SBIS may develop the following activities:
- Stimulate educational activities related to health informatics;
- Stimulate scientific research and technical development in Health Informatics;
- Organize conferences, symposiums, courses, seminars, and other activities that lead to experience and knowledge exchange;
- Cooperate with sister societies;
- Contribute to the definition of healthcare policies;
- Promote Health Informatics as a means to reduce costs and improve the quality of healthcare services.
Some of SBIS areas of interest are:
- Health information systems
- Health information management
- Electronic patient record
- Telemedicine and telehealth
- Medical decision support systems
- Biological signal processing
- Medical image processing
- Internet applications in health
- Health information standards
- Health informatics education
- Distance education in health
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. The Society is affiliated to the International Medical Informatics Association since 1988.
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