Health Informatics Department
Federal University of São Paulo – UNIFESP
Departamento de Informática em Saúde
Universidade Federal de São Paulo – UNIFESP
Congresso Internacional Multidiciplinar
Humboldt Kolleg
Limits and Interfaces in Science
São Paulo, 28-30 Nov 2009
UNIFESP’s Health Informatics Area
Prof. Dr. Ivan Torres Pisa
Departamento de Informática em Saúde, Chefe
Escola Paulista de Medicina
Universidade Federal de São Paulo - UNIFESP
Prof. Ivan Torres Pisa, ScD
Health Informatics Department, Chair
Paulista Medical School
Federal University of São Paulo - UNIFESP
ivan.pisa@unifesp.br
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Health Informatics Department
Federal University of São Paulo – UNIFESP
Departamento de Informática em Saúde
Universidade Federal de São Paulo – UNIFESP
Agenda
1. About myself
2. Biomedical and Health Informatics area
3. Health Informatics Department, UNIFESP
4. Mission and goals
5. Fields of activity
6. Website
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Health Informatics Department
Federal University of São Paulo – UNIFESP
Departamento de Informática em Saúde
Universidade Federal de São Paulo – UNIFESP
About Myself
• Prof. Ivan Torres Pisa
– Education
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1991 Technical’s Industrial Informatics, ETEP
1997 Bachelor of Mathematics, UNESP
1999 Master in Science, Physics Applied to Medicine and Biology, USP
2003 Doctor in Science, Physics Applied to Medicine and Biology, USP
2005 Posdoc, Health Informatics, USP/UNIFESP
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2004 Supervisor, Health Informatics Postgraduate Program, UNIFESP
2005 Supervisor, Public Health Postgraduate Program, UNIFESP
2006 Professor, Health Informatics Department, UNIFESP
2007 Professor, Health Informatics Specialization, UAB/UNIFESP
2008 Reviewer, International Journal of Health Informatics IJMI
2008 Editor, Journal of Health Informatics JHI
2008-2009 Vice-coordinator, Health Informatics PostProg, UNIFESP
2008-2010 Financial Director, Health Informatics Brazilian Society SBIS
2009-2012 Chair, Health Informatics Department, UNIFESP
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Health Informatics Department
Federal University of São Paulo – UNIFESP
Departamento de Informática em Saúde
Universidade Federal de São Paulo – UNIFESP
Biomedical and Health Informatics Related Areas
From: American Medical Informatics Association, Recomendations for Health Informatics area, 2009
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Health Informatics Department
Federal University of São Paulo – UNIFESP
Departamento de Informática em Saúde
Universidade Federal de São Paulo – UNIFESP
Health Informatics Structural Outline
From: American Medical Informatics Association, Recomendations for Health Informatics area, 2009
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Health Informatics Department
Federal University of São Paulo – UNIFESP
Departamento de Informática em Saúde
Universidade Federal de São Paulo – UNIFESP
Health Informatics Department, UNIFESP
• History of Health Informatics in Brazil
– 1980s Isolated group in Nephrology Discipline, UNIFESP
• Prof. Daniel Sigulem, MD, Prof Titular
– 1986 Committee for Health Informatics area
• Apply emerging technologies to the health field
– 1988 Health Informatics Center (CIS) was created
• Dissemination Health Informatics culture at UNIFESP
• Implanting the physical communication infrastructure
– 1999 Health Informatics Department (DIS) was created
• Academic purpouse
– 2003 Health Informatics Postgraduate Program
• Strictu sensu, Master and Doctor in Science degree
• 1st in Latin America and Caribbean
• DIS’s management
– Resources from UNIFESP, research incentive agencies, cooperation
agreements with government agencies and civil associations, and partnerships
with private sector
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Health Informatics Department
Federal University of São Paulo – UNIFESP
Departamento de Informática em Saúde
Universidade Federal de São Paulo – UNIFESP
Mission
• Mission
– To generate, promote, systematize, and transfer Health Informatics and
Telemedicine scientific and technological knowledge, in order to benefit, in the
short, mid, and long-term, the society in general and health field, in particular
• Goals
– To promote and encourage research and the development of technologies of
health information and communication, taking into account the whole spectrum
of their applications: care, management, education, and research
– To prepare professionals specialized in Health Informatics and Telemedicine
to work in teaching, research and development of information technologies
– To apply accumulated knowledge and experience in publicity, extension and
assistance activities, whether at UNIFESP’s service, or through partnerships
with related entities
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Health Informatics Department
Federal University of São Paulo – UNIFESP
Departamento de Informática em Saúde
Universidade Federal de São Paulo – UNIFESP
Development & Applications
• Health IT, Telemedicine, Telehealth
– From basic care to service management, everything
in healthcare is information
– Information technologies applied to health may,
besides shortening distances and promoting
transparency, support clinical and management
decision-making, through subsidies which would be
impossible without technology
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Health information systems
Decision-support systems
Patient’s electronic record
Computerized guidelines
Remote communication systems
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Health Informatics Department
Federal University of São Paulo – UNIFESP
Departamento de Informática em Saúde
Universidade Federal de São Paulo – UNIFESP
Education & Internet
• Distance-learning via the Internet, Computer-aided
teaching, Virtual UNIFESP
– Education and health demand experience and
responsibility
– The Internet, and particularly the web, broadens the
possibilities of training and retraining human
resources. Besides, the web enables new
communication interfaces between university and
society.
• Fields of activity
– Online tools to support undergraduate studies at
UNIFESP
– Virtual courses of specialisation and extension for
professionals
– Online programs of education for laypeople
– Distance training for corporate environments
– Management of UNIFESP’s site
• architecture, development and maintenance
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Health Informatics Department
Federal University of São Paulo – UNIFESP
Departamento de Informática em Saúde
Universidade Federal de São Paulo – UNIFESP
Networks & Connectivity
• Internet 2, Free Software, Security
– There is no production of knowledge without
exchange of information
– UNIFESP - the leading university in health research
in Brazil - has a high-performance network
infrastructure which connects it to the Internet 2 via
the Academic Network of the State of São Paulo
(ANSP) and the Brazilian Research Network (RNP)
• Fields of activity
– Management and expansion of the local network
according to university demands
– Use of platforms and free/open source software
– Continuous improvement regarding security and
high availability issues
– User support (more than seven thousand users)
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Health Informatics Department
Federal University of São Paulo – UNIFESP
Departamento de Informática em Saúde
Universidade Federal de São Paulo – UNIFESP
Bioinformatics & Genome
• Rede CompBioNet, Genome Cancer Project,
Evolução Molecular
– Decipher life codes and generate new information on
health
– We are members of CompBioNet - a network of
bioinformatics laboratories created by FAPESP
[Research Support Foundation of the State of São
Paulo] and the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
to analyze the sequences generated by the Genome
Cancer Project
• Fields of activity
– Development of tools for genome analysis and
protein classification
– Genomic database mining
– Evolutionary computing
– Phylogenetic analysis of biological sequences
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Health Informatics Department
Federal University of São Paulo – UNIFESP
Departamento de Informática em Saúde
Universidade Federal de São Paulo – UNIFESP
Teaching & Research
• Undergraduate studies, Postgraduate studies,
Applied research
– To sow the future by investing in formation and
innovation.
– Health Informatics is a teaching and research
interdisciplinary field which involves two great and
complex areas of knowledge: health sciences and
computer sciences
• Fields of activity
– Master’s and Doctor’s degree programs (strictu
sensu) approved by CAPES
– Disciplines for UNIFESP’s undergraduate,
specialization and extension courses
– Computer laboratories available to the UNIFESP
community
– Divulge Health Informatics inside and outside the
university
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Health Informatics Department
Federal University of São Paulo – UNIFESP
Departamento de Informática em Saúde
Universidade Federal de São Paulo – UNIFESP
Extension & Care
• Scientific consulting, Technical cooperation, SUS
– Take care of your village and you will be taking care
of the world
– Responsible for the administration of a group of
public hospitals which are part of the SUS [Brazilian
unified healthcare system], UNIFESP is a national
reference in healthcare, receiving patients from all
over the country - most of them low-income people
• Fields of activity
– Technical and scientific consulting in information
technology for UNIFESP and for hospitals under its
management
– Coordination of information technology of health
centers in university
– Technical cooperation with professional health
associations and government agencies
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Health Informatics Department
Federal University of São Paulo – UNIFESP
Departamento de Informática em Saúde
Universidade Federal de São Paulo – UNIFESP
Some Areas of Health Informatics
Health Informatics principles
Concepts representation: ontologies,
vocabularies, terminologies
Design patterns
Picture archivement and
communication systems
Bioinformatics principles
Personal health records
Security, privacy, confidentiality in
health information systems
Biological signals processing
Data mining and text mining
Clinical applications based on
medical images
Telemedicine and telehealth
Health e-learning
Patient’s care systems
Internet and health
Electronic health records
Information’s management systems
Digital practice of medicine
Public health information systems
Monitoring patient’s systems
Decision support systems
Shortliffe EH, Cimino J, Biomedical Informatics - Comp Applic in Health Care and Biomedicine. Third Edition, 2006.
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Health Informatics Department
Federal University of São Paulo – UNIFESP
Departamento de Informática em Saúde
Universidade Federal de São Paulo – UNIFESP
www.unifesp.br
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Health Informatics Department
Federal University of São Paulo – UNIFESP
Departamento de Informática em Saúde
Universidade Federal de São Paulo – UNIFESP
UNIFESP Vila Clementino
Departamento de Informática em Saúde UNIFESP, Rua Botucatu 862, Vila Clementino, 04023-062, São Paulo SP, Brazil
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Health Informatics Department
Federal University of São Paulo – UNIFESP
Departamento de Informática em Saúde
Universidade Federal de São Paulo – UNIFESP
Thank you for your attention
Prof. Ivan Torres Pisa, ScD
Health Informatics Department, Chair
ivan.pisa@unifesp.br
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