Health Informatics Department

Federal University of São Paulo – UNIFESP Congresso Internacional Multidiciplinar Humboldt Kolleg

Limits and Interfaces in Science

São Paulo, 28-30 Nov 2009

Departamento de Informática em Saúde Universidade Federal de São Paulo – UNIFESP

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 [email protected]

Health Informatics Department

Federal University of 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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About Myself

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• Prof. Ivan Torres Pisa – Education • • • • • 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 – Position • • • • • • • • • 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 3

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

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Health Informatics Structural Outline

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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 6

Health Informatics Department

Federal University of São Paulo – UNIFESP

Mission

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• 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 7

Health Informatics Department

Federal University of 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 • Fields of activity – Health information systems – – – – Decision-support systems Patient’s electronic record Computerized guidelines Remote communication systems

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Health Informatics Department

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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

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

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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

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

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 Bioinformatics principles Biological signals processing Clinical applications based on medical images Patient’s care systems Electronic health records Information’s management systems Monitoring patient’s systems Decision support systems Picture archivement and communication systems Personal health records Security, privacy, confidentiality in health information systems Data mining and text mining Telemedicine and telehealth Health e-learning Internet and health Digital practice of medicine Public health information systems .

Shortliffe EH, Cimino J, Biomedical Informatics - Comp Applic in Health Care and Biomedicine. Third Edition, 2006.

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Federal University of São Paulo – UNIFESP

www.unifesp.br

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UNIFESP Vila Clementino

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Departamento de Informática em Saúde UNIFESP, Rua Botucatu 862, Vila Clementino, 04023-062, São Paulo SP, Brazil 16

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

[email protected]

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