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Sistema de Informação dos Certificados de Óbito
Electronic death-certificate system (Lei 15/2012) used by doctors, DGS coders, Ministério Público, police and IRN registries; mandatory since 2014.
- Acronym
- SICO
- Type
- Register
- Level
- National
- Area
- Health
- Owner
- Direção-Geral da Saúde
- Used by
- public staff, other bodies
- In service since
- 2014
- Evidence
- Checked against sources
- Interface types
- Mobile app, other
- Would the model apply?
- Not yet analysed
Connections
5 documented links. Select any entry to open its page.
Sends data to3
- Instituto dos Registos e do Notariado, I.P.Electronic transmission of death certificates to IRN registries to draw up death records · Real-time API
- Registo Nacional de UtentesDeath certificates update the SNS user database (records move to 'histórico')
- Vigilância eletrónica de mortalidade (eVM)eVM automatically extracts SICO data, refreshed every 10 minutes
Run by2
- Direção-Geral da SaúdeDGS is owner
- Serviços Partilhados do Ministério da Saúde, E.P.E.Listed as SPMS-developed product; DGS owns it
What the owner signs for IT
Buyer in Portal BASE: Direção-Geral da Saúde. This is everything the owner signed for IT, not the cost of this entry alone.
€4.5MIT contracts, 2012 to October 2026
€328ka year on average, 2022 to 2025
178IT contracts signed
By signing year
2012Highest: 2012, €725k
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Contract value by the year it was signed, not yearly spending. 2026 runs to 25 October.