What is SIAS?

See also: poster depicting recent group activities/strategy.

SIAS stands for Sistemas e Informação na Área da Saúde (health information and systems). It's a special interest group at the IEETA institute (a research unit of the University of Aveiro).

The SIAS group pursues research and development activities in innovative areas related to the application of new information technologies and systems in health care. These activities can be described as going from the sensor to the system grouped along several main research lines presented in the above diagram. Each line has several projects (usually consecutive in time) and for each project, a specific R&D team is set up, gathering senior researchers and younger students, often scholars.

The group was created in 1997 by João Paulo Cunha , PhD.