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Twenty Years of Society of Medical Informatics of B and H and the Journal Acta Informatica Medica

2012; Volume: 20; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5455/aim.2012.20.5-14

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Izet Mašić,

Health and Medical Education

In 2012, health informatics profession celebrates five jubilees in Bosnia and Herzegovina:Thirty five years from introduction of first automatic manipulation of data.In 1977, under the supervision of Fuad Secerbegovic, MD, chief of department for Health statistics, Republic institute for public health BiH, in Sarajevo, company "Energoinvest" Ltd.Was done first analysis of summary and periodic health data reports about network, capacities and performance of healthcare service in Bosnia and Herzegovina.Before that analysis was performed manually in above institute.In 1982, in the Regional health station "Visnjik" in Sarajevo was tested, for the first time in the health history of Bosnia and Herzegovina one Information System -Local health information system (LZIS).Creators of LZIS were Izet Masic and Arif Agovic.Health data on services provided to 6000 users of healthcare, were treated by four teams of physicians and analysed in software package "Archive" in personal computer SINCLAIR QL.