Editing Health informatics (section)

==== Brazil ====
{{Main|Brazilian Society of Health Informatics}}
The first applications of computers to medicine and health care in Brazil started around 1968, with the installation of the first mainframes in public university hospitals, and the use of programmable calculators in scientific research applications. Minicomputers, such as the [[IBM 1130]] were installed in several universities, and the first applications were developed for them, such as the [[hospital census]] in the [[School of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto]] and patient master files, in the [[Hospital das Clínicas da Universidade de São Paulo]], respectively at the cities of [[Ribeirão Preto]] and [[São Paulo]] campuses of the [[University of São Paulo]].

In the 1970s, several [[Digital Corporation]] and [[Hewlett-Packard]] minicomputers were acquired for public and Armed Forces hospitals, and more intensively used for [[intensive-care unit]], [[cardiology]] diagnostics, [[patient monitoring]] and other applications. In the early 1980s, with the arrival of cheaper [[microcomputer]]s, a great upsurge of computer applications in health ensued, and in 1986 the [[Brazilian Society of Health Informatics]] was founded, the first [[Brazilian Congress of Health Informatics]] was held, and the first ''Brazilian Journal of Health Informatics'' was published. In Brazil, two universities are pioneers in teaching and research in medical informatics, both the [[University of São Paulo]] and the [[Federal University of São Paulo]] offer undergraduate programs highly qualified in the area as well as extensive graduate programs (MSc and PhD). In 2015 the [[Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre]], [[Rio Grande do Sul]], also started to offer undergraduate program.