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Julio Souza is currently an Invited Assistant Teacher at the Institute of Engineering – Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal. His background includes a Bachelor Degree in Biomedical Informatics (2012), a Master Degree in Bioengeering (2015), both from the University of São Paulo (Brazil) and a PhD in Clinical and Health Services Research (2019), from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto (Portugal). He is also member of the Health Research Network (RISE) within the Center for Health Technology and Services Research (CINTESIS). Research experience includes more than 9 years working along multidisciplinary teams in areas such as Publich Health, Health Economics, Health Data Science, Digital Health, Health Services Research, Clinical Coding and Data Quality.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Julio Cesar Botelho de Souza

Citation names

  • Souza, Julio

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
3E17-5B0E-D686
ORCID iD
0000-0002-8576-1903

Email addresses

  • jbs@isep.ipp.pt (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Medical and Health Sciences - Health Sciences - Health Policy and Services
  • Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences - Computer Sciences
  • Medical and Health Sciences - Health Sciences - Health Care Sciences and Services

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
Education
Degree Classification
2015/01/03 - 2019/04/23
Concluded
 PhD Program in Clinical and Health Services Research (Doctor)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2013/02/01 - 2015/02/25
Concluded
 Master Degree in Bioengineering (Master)
Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
2008/03/01 - 2013/01/11
Concluded
 Biomedical Informatics (Bachelor)
Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2019/08/01 - 2021/04/30 1st.IndiQare - Quality indicators in primary health care: validation and implementation of quality indicators as an assessment and comparison tool
POCI-01-0145 -FEDER-030766
PhD Student Fellow
Ongoing

Contract

Designation Funders
2021/05/01 - 2023/06/30 INNO4HEALTH Stimulate continuous monitoring in personal and physical health.
EUREKA-ITEA3: 19008; POCI-01-0247-FEDER-069523
Post-doc
Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Carolina Ameijeiras-Rodriguez; Rita Rb-Silva; Jose Miguel Diniz; Julio Souza; Alberto Freitas. "Use of Decentralized-Learning Methods Applied to Healthcare: A Bibliometric Analysis". 2023.
    10.1007/978-3-031-36024-4_25
  2. Julio Souza; Sara Escadas; Daniel Rodrigues; Alberto Freitas. "Smart Wearable Systems for the Remote Monitoring of Venous and Diabetic Foot Ulcers: State of the Art". 2023.
    10.1007/978-3-031-22356-3_10
  3. Rita Rb-Silva; Xavier Ribeiro; Francisca Almeida; Carolina Ameijeiras-Rodriguez; Julio Souza; Luis Conceição; Tiago Taveira-Gomes; Goreti Marreiros; Alberto Freitas. "Secur-e-Health Project: Towards Federated Learning for Smart Pediatric Care". 2023.
    10.3233/SHTI230196
  4. Freitas, Alberto; Souza, Julio; Caballero, Ismael. "Data Governance in the Health Sector". In Data Governance, 215-231. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023.
    10.1007/978-3-031-43773-1_11
  5. Escadas, Sara; Souza, Julio; Vieira, Ana; Conceição, Luís; Sampaio, Sérgio; Freitas, Alberto. "Requirement Specification for a Remote Monitoring System to Support the Management of Vascular Diseases". In Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, 699-710. Springer International Publishing, 2022.
    10.1007/978-3-031-04826-5_69
  6. Ismael Caballero; Júlio Souza; Fernando Lopes; João Vasco Santos; Alberto Freitas. "Towards a Process Reference Model for Clinical Coding". 2022.
    10.1007/978-3-031-14179-9_13
  7. A. Ramalho; J. Souza; A. Freitas. "The Use of Artificial Intelligence for Clinical Coding Automation: A Bibliometric Analysis". 274-283. Springer International Publishing, 2021.
    10.1007/978-3-030-53036-5_30
  8. J. Souza; I. Caballero; J. V. Santos; M. F. Lobo; A. Pinto; J. Viana; C. Saez; A. Freitas. "Measuring Variability in Acute Myocardial Infarction Coding Using a Statistical Process Control and Probabilistic Temporal Data Quality Control Approaches". 2021.
    10.1007/978-3-030-72651-5_19
  9. Ana Vieira; João Carneiro; Luís Conceição; Constantino Martins; Julio Souza; Alberto Freitas; Goreti Marreiros. "Defining an Architecture for a Remote Monitoring Platform to Support the Self-management of Vascular Diseases". 2021.
    10.1007/978-3-030-85710-3_14
  10. M. F. Lobo; M. Oliveira; A. R. Oliveira; J. V. Santos; V. Alonso; F. Lopes; A. Ramalho; et al. "Protocol for Analysis of Root Causes of Problems Affecting the Quality of the Diagnosis Related Group-Based Hospital Data: A Rapid Review and Delphi Process". 2020.
    10.1007/978-3-030-45688-7_10
Conference paper
  1. Diana Pimenta; Julio Souza; Ismael Caballero; Alberto Freitas. "Toward the Measure of Credibility of Hospital Administrative Datasets in the Context of DRG Classification". Paper presented in 12th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology, 2019.
    10.1007/978-3-030-29238-6_21
  2. Souza, J.; Santos, J.V.; Lopes, F.; Viana, J.; Freitas, A.. "Miscoding alerts within hospital datasets: An unsupervised machine learning approach". 2018.
    10.1007/978-3-319-77712-2_115
Journal article
  1. José Miguel Diniz; Henrique Vasconcelos; Júlio Souza; Rita Rb-Silva; Carolina Ameijeiras-Rodriguez; Alberto Freitas. "Comparing Decentralized Learning Methods for Health Data Models to Nondecentralized Alternatives: Protocol for a Systematic Review". JMIR Research Protocols (2023): https://doi.org/10.2196/45823.
    10.2196/45823
  2. João Vasco Santos; Filipa Santos Martins; Joana Pestana; Júlio Souza; Alberto Freitas; Jonathan Cylus. "Should we adjust health expenditure for age structure on health systems efficiency? A worldwide analysis". Health Economics Review (2023): https://doi.org/10.1186/s13561-023-00421-2.
    10.1186/s13561-023-00421-2
  3. Júlio Souza; Ismael Caballero; João Vasco Santos; Mariana Lobo; Andreia Pinto; João Viana; Carlos Sáez; Fernando Lopes; Alberto Freitas. "Multisource and temporal variability in Portuguese hospital administrative datasets: Data quality implications". Journal of Biomedical Informatics 136 (2022): 104242-104242. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbi.2022.104242.
    10.1016/j.jbi.2022.104242
  4. Julio Souza; Sara Escadas; Isidora Baxevani; Daniel Rodrigues; Alberto Freitas. "Smart Wearable Systems for the Remote Monitoring of Selected Vascular Disorders of the Lower Extremity: A Systematic Review". International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19 22 (2022): 15231-15231. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192215231.
    10.3390/ijerph192215231
  5. Roberto Carvalho; Mariana Lobo; Mariana Oliveira; Ana Raquel Oliveira; Fernando Lopes; Júlio Souza; André Ramalho; et al. "Analysis of Root Causes of Problems Affecting the Quality Hospital Administrative Data: A Systematic Review and Ishikawa Diagram". International Journal of Medical Informatics (2021): 104584-104584. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2021.104584.
    10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2021.104584
  6. Andre Ramalho; Julio Souza; Pedro Castro; Mariana Lobo; Paulo Santos; Alberto Freitas. "Portuguese Primary Healthcare and Prevention Quality Indicators for Diabetes Mellitus – A Data Envelopment Analysis". International Journal of Health Policy and Management (2021): https://doi.org/10.34172/ijhpm.2021.76.
    10.34172/ijhpm.2021.76
  7. A. Ramalho; P. Castro; M. Lobo; J. Souza; P. Santos; A. Freitas. "Integrated quality assessment for diabetes care in Portuguese primary health care using prevention quality indicators". Primary Care Diabetes (2021): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pcd.2021.01.001.
    10.1016/j.pcd.2021.01.001
  8. Andreia Pinto; João Vasco Santos; Júlio Souza; João Viana; Cristina Costa Santos; Mariana Lobo; Alberto Freitas. "Comparison and Impact of Four Different Methodologies for Identification of Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions". International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17 21 (2020): 8121-8121. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17218121.
    10.3390/ijerph17218121
  9. Julio Souza; Diana Pimenta; Ismael Caballero; Alberto Freitas. "Measuring data credibility and medical coding: a case study using a nationwide Portuguese inpatient database". Software Quality Journal 28 3 (2020): 1043-1061. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11219-020-09504-3.
    10.1007/s11219-020-09504-3
  10. Santos, João Vasco; Lobo, Mariana; Neiva, Rui Manuel; Viana, João; Souza, Júlio; Dias, Cláudia Camila; Cylus, Jonathan; Ricciardi, Walter; Freitas, Alberto. "European Union state of health from 1990 to 2017: time trends and its enlargements’ effects". International Journal of Public Health 65 2 (2020): 175-186. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00038-020-01335-0.
    10.1007/s00038-020-01335-0
  11. Santos, João Vasco; Souza, Júlio; Valente, José; Alonso, Vera; Ramalho, André; Viana, João; Ricciardi, Walter; Freitas, Alberto. "The state of health in the European Union (EU-28) in 2017: an analysis of the burden of diseases and injuries". European Journal of Public Health (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckz203.
    10.1093/eurpub/ckz203
  12. Julio Souza; João Vasco Santos; Fernando Lopes; Alberto Freitas. "Quality of coding within clinical datasets: A case-study using burn-related hospitalizations". Burns (2019): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.burns.2018.09.013.
    10.1016/j.burns.2018.09.013
  13. Souza, Julio; Santos, João Vasco; Canedo, Veronica Bolon; Betanzos, Amparo; Alves, Domingos; Freitas, Alberto. "Importance of coding co-morbidities for APR-DRG assignment: Focus on cardiovascular and respiratory diseases". Health Information Management Journal 49 1 (2019): 47-57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1833358319840575.
    10.1177/1833358319840575
  14. Martinho-Dias, D.; Sousa-Pinto, B.; Botelho-Souza, J.; Soares, A.; Delgado, L.; Fonseca, J.A.. "Publication trends of Allergy, Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, and Clinical and Translational Allergy journals: A MeSH term-based bibliometric analysis". Clinical and Translational Allergy 8 1 (2018): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85042376656&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1186/s13601-018-0191-1
  15. Viana, J.; Santos, J.V.; Neiva, R.M.; Souza, J.; Duarte, L.; Teodoro, A.C.; Freitas, A.. "Remote sensing in human health: A 10-year bibliometric analysis". Remote Sensing 9 12 (2017): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85038211402&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.3390/rs9121225
  16. Santos, J.V.; Souza, J.; Amarante, J.; Freitas, A.. "Burden of Burns in Brazil from 2000 to 2014: A Nationwide Hospital-Based Study". World Journal of Surgery 41 8 (2017): 2006-2012. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85016112899&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s00268-017-3988-5
Preprint
  1. José Miguel Diniz; Henrique Vasconcelos; Júlio Souza; Rita Rb-Silva; Carolina Ameijeiras-Rodriguez; Alberto Freitas. "Comparing Decentralized Learning Methods for Health Data Models to Nondecentralized Alternatives: Protocol for a Systematic Review (Preprint)". 2023. https://doi.org/10.2196/preprints.45823.
    10.2196/preprints.45823
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2019/09/11 Toward the measure of credibility of hospital administrative datasets in the context of DRG classification 12th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology
(Ciudad Real, Spain)
2017/11/09 Syn4Data: a novel analytical and visualization online tool for the description and synthesis of scientific research topics Projman 2017 - International Conference on Project Management
(Barcelona, Spain)
2016/12/12 Health care system efficiency and burden of disease: An international comparison using Distance Direction Function” 15th edition of the “Conferência Nacional de Economia em Saúde” (CNES)
(Coimbra, Portugal)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2022/04 - 2022/07 Student Mobility for Traineeships Erasmus + ("Inno4health - Stimulate continuous monitoring in personal and physical health")
Supervisor
Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2018/10/17 - 2019/11/28 Data mining na deteção de outliers na codificação clínica: estudo em internamentos com pneumonia
Co-supervisor
 Mestrado em Informática Médica (Master)
2016/02/05 - 2017/12/14 Utilização de Text Mining para Apoio à Classificação de Registos de Alergias e Reações Adversas
Co-supervisor of Mélanie Gonçalves de Castro
 Mestrado em Informática Médica (Master)

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2023/11/17 Desenvolvimento de um sistema inteligente para suporte e monitorização de pacientes com doenças vasculares
(Thesis) Arguer
 Ivo Alexandre Maia Curado (Master)
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
2022/12 Analysing the impact of Multimorbidity on health outcomes among stomach cancer hospitalizations
Supervisor
 Beatriz Maria Moutinho da Costa e Carvalho Ribeiro (Master)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2022/09 Identificação de padrões de multimorbilidade em hospitalizações por Pneumonia por meio da análise de cluster
Supervisor
 Madalena da Graça Vilar da Silva (Other)
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
2022/07 “INNO4FOOT- Sistema Weareable para Monitorização de Úlceras Venosas e Úlceras do Pé Diabético
Supervisor
 Cristiana Almeida Rocha (Other)
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
2022/07 Physician Availability In Pediatric Emergency Services
Supervisor
 Gonçalo Fernandes (Other)
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
2020/12/17 "Aplicação de técnicas de data mining para prever a mortalidade e o período de estadia hospitalares no contexto do enfarte agudo do miocárdio
Supervisor
 Ana Raquel Santos Oliveira (Master)
Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto, Portugal