Núcleo de Informática Biomédica

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The Núcleo de Informática Biomédica (in English, Center for Biomedical Informatics) of the State University of Campinas (NIB), in Campinas, Brazil, was an interdisciplinary center for research, development and education in medical informatics, founded July 1983 by the University, under the deanship of Dr. José Aristodemo Pinotti. Its founder and first director was Dr. Renato M.E. Sabbatini. NIB closed down in February 2004, after the retirement of Dr. Sabbatini.

NIB was one of the earliest university-based research centers on the subject of biomedical informatics to be officially established in the country.

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Starting 1996, NIB created with a number of websites devoted to promote the awareness of general public to health-related information, such as, among others:

NIB also created the first Brazilian project of scientific electronic publishing, the e*pub Group, where several pioneering, exclusively on-line publications were created under it, such as the On-Line Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and the On-Line Journal of Dentistry and Oral Medicine.

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