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Bahiana and partner institutions promote the I Health Tech
Meeting marked the launch of the Technologist course in Health Informatics.
01/12/2017
Disseminate the culture of entrepreneurship and innovation in the State of Bahia, encouraging the development of new talent and recognition of businesses with innovative potential in the health area. That was the purpose of the Health tech, meeting promoted by Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública, November 24, at the Academic Unit Brotas, in partnership with UNEB, Senai/Cimatec and IFBA. The event also marked the launch of the Technologist in Health Informatics course, the first graduation of the Bahiana in the Distance Education modality.
The event, which brought as a guest speaker the head of the Discipline of Telemedicine at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of São Paulo, also marked the delivery of the 1st edition of the Inova + Saúde award for innovative ideas in health, whose public notice was launched during the National Meeting of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Health, held in May, at Bahiana.
The dean of the Bahiana, Dr. Maria Luisa Carvalho Soliani, the Dean of Research and Innovation, Atson Fernandes, as well as representatives of the event's partner institutions, Anderson Leite (IFBA), Eduardo Jorge (Uneb), Rodrigo Lima Santos (Santander – award sponsor Inova + Saúde) and Valter Beal (Senai/Cimatec).
Technologist Course in Health Informatics
Scheduled to start in 2018.2, the Technologist course in Health Informatics will last for three years. According to its coordinator, the professor of the Medicine course and coordinator of the Telemedicine and Telehealth Center at Bahiana, Marta Menezes, the course arose from the need for health to use technology properly. “There is a difficulty for health professionals in relation to new technologies and, in particular, computer resources. On the other hand, it is also difficult to find IT professionals who understand the demands and requests of health”, he explains.
In this way, the course will train professionals to work uniting these two areas. “We are going to train professionals who will serve as interpreters between the two areas. It will be a course that will train a hybrid professional, it will be a new profession. I say that the profile is of someone who has a lot of affinity with technology and who accepts health well”, explains Marta Menezes, pointing out, as fields of work, hospitals, public management, health units, among others.
"This is a very important moment for the Bahiana that launches an innovative course with unique features. It will be a course that will add great value, as we will have professionals that we need so much in the health area”, declared Dr. Maria Luisa Carvalho Soliani.
Chao Lung Wen also highlighted the initiative of Bahiana in launching the new course. "THE Bahiana is among the pioneers in building a generation of professionals that the market will need. Today, people may not understand, but five years from now, they will. THE Bahiana it will be forming an infrastructure for the generation of human resources that Brazil will need to be able to maintain international competitiveness in the area of technologies applied to health”.
Health tech
Health Tech is an annual event and aims to provide a dialogue between guest speakers and participants, focusing on promoting innovative ideas and technologies in health. In its first edition, the event received USP professor Chao Lung Wen who gave the lecture "Virtual Man in 3D: new perspectives for health education in Brazil".
The Health Tech program also included the delivery of the Inova+ Saúde Award, sponsored by Banco Santander and promoted by the institutions responsible for the National Meeting of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Health (ENEIS) – a biannual event held by Bahiana, UNEB, Senai/Cimatec and IFBA.
Innovate + Health
The Inova+Saúde Award is an initiative of Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública (EBMSP), in partnership with the State University of Bahia (UNEB), the National Service for Industrial Learning (SENAI CIMATEC) and the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Bahia (IFBA), sponsored by Banco Santander Universities .
The award's main objective is to disseminate the culture of entrepreneurship and innovation in the State of Bahia, encouraging the development of new talent and recognition of businesses with innovative potential in the health area.
In this first edition, five winners were awarded for each of the categories: "Technologies to support the diagnosis, treatment or prevention of diseases" and "Technologies to support professional education or health management". Awards with trophy and financial recognition were given to the first three places in the values of 3 thousand, 2 thousand and 1 thousand reais, in both categories. The other winners received a certificate. In all, 25 projects were registered.
According to the Dean of Research and Innovation at Bahiana, Prof. Dr. Atson Fernandes, “This proposal came initially from the partnership with Santander Universities, which embraced the proposal as a funder. The award is part of the financing that also encompassed ENEIS. It has an important symbolic value for the winners, however, the most important thing is the emphasis on their ideas, because, from this award, it can even impact on attracting investors to these ideas. The unfolding of that is a much bigger world.” He explains that all winning ideas have great potential for incubation. “We, from the Bahiana and partner institutions, we are already evaluating the possibility of investing in some of these ideas”.
Winners 2017
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