Instituto Ética Saúde

What Instituto Ética Saúde does

Instituto Ética Saúde (IES) is a Brazilian non-profit organization founded in 2015 and headquartered in São Paulo, dedicated to promoting ethics and transparency across the Brazilian healthcare value chain. It operates as an independent industry association serving medical device manufacturers and distributors, pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, clinics, laboratories, diagnostic centers, health operators, and government oversight bodies. The organization is governed by a Board of Directors, an Ethics Council, and a Consultative Council composed of healthcare industry associations and entities, and explicitly states it does not represent any single company or group interest.

IES delivers an integrated portfolio of compliance and integrity solutions rather than a modular software platform. Core offerings include the QualIES maturity assessment program (a 1–5 level evaluation of corporate integrity systems), the Certidão Eletrônica membership verification certificate, the Canal de Denúncias whistleblower channel, and an annual mandatory self-assessment questionnaire for members. Technology infrastructure centers on two data monitoring platforms: ITES (Inteligência e Transparência da Ética na Saúde), which continuously monitors public health-sector data via open-source intelligence and system integration, and Radar Ética Saúde, which tracks corruption investigations, fraud, overbilling, and irregularities. The 2025-launched EESEE ecosystem bundles these capabilities with the EME academic ethics education program and the Marco de Consenso Brasileiro multi-stakeholder framework.

The business model is a recurring annual membership subscription: companies apply to join, pay undisclosed membership fees, and gain access to the member portal, compliance training, working groups, certifications, and events. IES supplements membership income with courses, seminars, and research publications, and has developed 16 Normative Instructions and 5 Resolutions as its proprietary compliance corpus. It maintains 15+ active technical cooperation agreements with Brazilian federal bodies (TCU, CGU, ANVISA, CADE, ANS, Frente Parlamentar Mista da Saúde) and is a signatory of the Ethical Principles in Health Care (EPiHC) proposed by the World Bank through the IDB since 2019.

Name

Instituto Ética Saúde

Legal name

Instituto Ética Saúde

Website

https://eticasaude.org.br

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Instituto Ética Saúde is a Brazilian non-profit association founded in 2015 that promotes ethics and transparency across the healthcare value chain. It serves healthcare companies, providers, and government bodies through compliance programs, maturity assessments, and data monitoring platforms.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Compliance & Ethics Services

NAICS

Business Associations (813910), Educational Services (611)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Fraud Risk Management & Anti-Bribery/Anti-Corruption (ABAC) (BPAHAFAL)

akta.pro secondary industry

Accreditation Appeals, Arbitration & Compliance Oversight Bodies (EDADACAL)

Keywords

• Healthcare ethics compliance
• Integrity maturity assessment
• Health sector transparency
• Whistleblower channel services
• Healthcare self regulation

Headquarters

HQ city

São Paulo

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Membership Fees: Companies pay membership fees to be associated with the institute, gaining access to compliance programs, training, certifications, working groups, and networking opportunities.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Instituto Ética Saúde is a non-profit association that delivers ethics, integrity, and compliance programs to healthcare sector companies in Brazil. Its core offerings include a maturity assessment program for integrity systems (QualIES), an electronic membership certificate, compliance education courses, an annual self-assessment questionnaire, a confidential whistleblower channel, and supporting monitoring platforms (ITES and Radar Ética Saúde) that track irregularities and corruption cases in the healthcare ecosystem.

Product overview

Instituto Ética Saúde operates as a non-profit organization focused on promoting ethics and transparency in the Brazilian healthcare sector since 2015. Its offerings consist of a unified portfolio of integrity and compliance solutions rather than a modular platform. The core offerings include the QualIES maturity assessment program for evaluating company integrity systems, the Certidão Eletrônica for compliance verification, Educação em Compliance training programs, the Questionário de Autoavaliação self-assessment tool, and the Canal de Denúncias whistleblower channel. Supporting platforms include Radar Ética Saúde for corruption monitoring, ITES for open-source intelligence data monitoring, and EME for ethics education in healthcare professional formation. These products work together to provide a comprehensive ecosystem of self-regulation, monitoring, education, and governance support for healthcare sector stakeholders.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• QualIES: A program to evaluate the maturity level of Integrity Systems, developed by Instituto Ética Saúde in partnership with a group of voluntary companies, to support members along the path of implementation and improvement of their internal compliance systems.
• EESEE
• ITES
• EME

Products and services

• QualIES (Programa de Avaliação do Nível de Maturidade de Sistemas de Integridade) Maturity assessment program that evaluates the integrity/compliance systems of associated healthcare companies on a standardized 1-to-5 scale, developed by IES in partnership with accredited implementation and evaluation companies. Intended for healthcare companies seeking to benchmark and continuously improve their internal compliance programs.
• Certidão Eletrônica Electronic certificate confirming a company's affiliation to Instituto Ética Saúde, reinforcing its public commitment to ethics and integrity in the healthcare sector. Issued to associated companies.
• Educação em Compliance Compliance education program with a comprehensive curriculum designed to promote ethical and transparent practices and train healthcare professionals in integrity standards. Available to associated companies and healthcare sector professionals.
• Questionário de Autoavaliação Mandatory annual self-assessment questionnaire for associated organizations to verify the implementation and update of their compliance programs, accessed through the associate member portal.
• ITES - Inteligência e Transparência da Ética na Saúde Platform for continuous monitoring of public healthcare-sector data through open-source intelligence, system integration, and real-time updates, designed to identify irregularities and strengthen transparency. Used by IES and its government partners to flag corruption risks.
• Radar Ética Saúde Public monitoring platform tracking investigation and corruption processes in healthcare, including cases involving corruption, overbilling, fraud, and resource diversion in public, private, and supplemental health sectors.
• EME - Educação Moral e Ética Program for the transversal inclusion of ethics and integrity in healthcare-area academic courses, embedding ethics topics in mandatory disciplines to raise awareness among future professionals from the academic formation stage.
• Canal de Denúncias Secure and confidential whistleblower channel allowing identified or anonymous submission of complaints about illegal acts, irregularities, or unethical conduct in any healthcare context. Operated by IES for the healthcare sector.
• Cursos e Eventos (Courses and Events) Calendar of courses and events offered by IES and partner organizations, featuring healthcare sector specialists speaking on ethics, compliance, governance, and transparency topics. Available to associates and the wider healthcare community.
• Consultas Técnicas Open channel for associates to conduct technical consultations pertinent to the development of ethics and integrity programs within their healthcare sector organizations.

Quantifiable outcome

• 89% of evaluated hospitals have implemented compliance programs
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

22 partnerships are on record, tiered major, core and minor.

• ICOS - Instituto Coalizão SaúdemajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 21 October 2025Technical cooperation agreement signed October 21, 2025 in São Paulo. Collaborative action for health sector to promote and strengthen ethical principles seeking sustainability of the value chain and better patient outcomes.
• ABRAIDI - Associação Brasileira de Importadores e Distribuidores de Produtos para SaúdecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 29 August 2025Technical cooperation agreement signed August 29, 2025 in São Paulo. Collaborative action for health sector promotion and strengthening of ethical principles seeking value chain sustainability and better patient results.
• CFO - Conselho Federal de OdontologiamajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 7 April 2025Technical cooperation agreement signed April 7, 2025 in São Paulo. Collaborative action for legislative proposals, regulatory reviews, and private self-regulation to stimulate ethical principles, lawful practices, risk management, and fair economic environment in health.
• Prefeitura Municipal de Mogi das CruzesmajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 19 March 2025Technical cooperation agreement signed March 19, 2025 in Mogi das Cruzes. Collaborative action for health sector related to legislative proposals and regulation to stimulate ethical principles, lawful practices, risk management, and fair economic environment in public municipal health.
• GPCP - Grupo de Pesquisa Contratação Públicas (PUC/SP)majorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 12 March 2025Technical cooperation agreement signed March 12, 2025 in São Paulo. Adoption of measures for ethics promotion, transparency, and corruption combat through educational measures, lectures, research, seminars, courses, joint studies, publications, campaigns.
• IBDRE - Instituto Brasileiro de Direito RegulatóriomajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 26 September 2024Technical cooperation agreement signed September 26, 2024 in São Paulo. Develops work and actions for promotion of ethical principles and combat against corruption and illicit conduct in health sector and society.
• ABDB - Associação Brasileira de Defesa dos Beneficiários de Planos e Seguros de SaúdeminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 13 August 2024Technical cooperation agreement signed August 13, 2024 in São Paulo for health sector ethics promotion.
• CBEX's - Colégio Brasileiro de Executivos da SaúdemajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 30 July 2024Technical cooperation agreement signed July 30, 2024 in São Paulo for joint actions in health sector ethics promotion.
• SNCRJ - Sociedade de Neurocirurgia do Rio de JaneirominorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 15 July 2024Technical cooperation agreement signed July 15, 2024 in São Paulo. Joint development and execution of actions related to legislative and regulatory reviews, educational measures, use of IES complaint channel, and sharing of information on irregular practices in health sector.
• FPMS - Frente Parlamentar Mista da SaúdecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 10 May 2024Technical cooperation agreement signed May 10, 2024 in São Paulo. Creates 'Thematic Commission of Ethics and Transparency in Health' coordinated by IES for analyzing legislative proposals and strengthening ethical environment in health sector.
• ANS - Agência Nacional de Saúde SuplementarcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 15 September 2023Technical cooperation agreement nº 019/2023 signed September 15, 2023 in Rio de Janeiro. Promotes activities related to investigation, prevention, and prosecution of economic crimes through sharing of data on irregular and illegal practices involving health operators.
• Instituto Capitalismo Consciente BrasilmajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 30 August 2022Cooperation and partnership agreement signed August 30, 2022 in São Paulo. Joint development and execution of projects focused on ethics promotion and corruption combat through educational measures and joint actions.
• ABRAMED - Associação Brasileira de Medicina DiagnósticamajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 9 September 2020Cooperation and partnership agreement signed September 9, 2020 in São Paulo. Develops shared projects for ethics promotion and corruption combat, and exchange of information related to the complaint channel involving the laboratory market.
• OSB - Observatório Social do BrasilmajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 18 August 2020Technical cooperation agreement signed August 18, 2020 in São Paulo. Promotes and strengthens ethical principles and combats corruption and illicit conduct in the health sector and society.
• CGU - Controladoria-Geral da UniãocoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 June 2019Technical cooperation agreement signed June 24, 2019 in Brasília. Involves sharing of experiences and best practices related to private integrity, and sending IES data on corruption complaints and fraud in public bids and contracts.
• FGV - Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGVethics)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 12 March 2019Technical cooperation agreement signed March 12, 2019 in São Paulo. Adopts measures to promote ethics and combat corruption through educational measures, lectures, conferences, congresses, seminars, workshops, discussion forums, round tables, working groups, campaigns.
• INAC - Instituto Não Aceito CorrupçãomajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 15 August 2018Technical cooperation agreement signed August 15, 2018 in São Paulo. Develops and executes actions for ethics promotion and corruption combat through educational measures, joint studies, campaigns, publications through effective human, material, and information resource complementation.
• CADE - Conselho Administrativo de Defesa EconômicacoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 20 December 2017Technical cooperation agreement signed December 20, 2017 in Brasília. Establishes exchange of knowledge, experiences, and information to support the Tribunal's technical work and promote competition defense in the health sector.
• TCU - Tribunal de Contas da UniãocoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 9 October 2017Technical cooperation agreement signed October 9, 2017 in Brasília, renewed in November 2021 and February 2024. Establishes exchange of knowledge, experiences, and information to support the Tribunal's technical work and complementary activities of common interest.
• ANVISA - Agência Nacional de Vigilância SanitáriacoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 10 May 2017Technical cooperation agreement signed May 10, 2017 in Brasília. Develops scientific, normative, and technical work of common interest to improve processes and practices in health surveillance.
• Inter-American Coalition of Ethics in Medical Technology SectorcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2017IES is member of the Inter-American Coalition of Ethics in Business for Medical Technology sector. Coalition unifies 17 major medical technology industry bodies across the Americas, benefiting over 3,000 associated companies operating in all hemisphere countries.
• AMPASA - Associação Nacional do Ministério Público de Defesa da SaúdemajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 30 March 2016Technical cooperation agreement nº 001/2016 signed March 30, 2016 in Brasília. Optimizes fiscalization, transparency, ethics, and economic processes of Brazilian health chain for medical devices through shared articulation and operations, and integrates efforts to combat illegal practices in health.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Instituto Não Aceito Corrupção (INAC): Brazilian anti-corruption institute and IES cooperation partner; both run joint campaigns, studies, and educational programs targeting corruption in Brazil including healthcare.
• FGVethics - Fundação Getulio Vargas Ethics Program: FGV's ethics program and IES cooperation partner; both develop anti-corruption research, education, and indices in Brazil, with IES-FGV joint research on healthcare corruption perception.
• Observatório Social do Brasil (OSB): Brazilian social oversight organization and IES cooperation partner focused on transparency and anti-corruption; comparable mission and methodology for monitoring public spending integrity.
• Organização Nacional de Acreditação (ONA): Brazilian healthcare accreditation body that evaluates hospital quality and safety standards; comparable to IES in that both operate healthcare quality/integrity certification frameworks in Brazil.
• IBROSS - Instituto Brasileiro das Organizações Sociais de Saúde: Partner of IES and co-organizer of the Melhores Hospitais Públicos Award; IBROSS represents healthcare social organizations and shares IES's mission of improving healthcare governance and transparency.
• ETCO - Instituto Brasileiro de Ética Concorrencial: Brazilian institute focused on ethics and competitive integrity; IES's Ethics Council President Edson Vismona is also ETCO's Executive President, making it the closest organizational and leadership peer.
• ICOS - Instituto Coalizão Saúde: Brazilian healthcare coalition and IES cooperation partner; both organizations convene multi-stakeholder healthcare groups to promote sustainability, ethics, and policy influence.

Broad incumbents

• AdvaMed - Advanced Medical Technology Association: US medical technology industry association that operates the AdvaMed Code of Ethics on interactions with healthcare professionals—the international counterpart framework to IES's normative instructions for the medtech sector.
• MedTech Europe: European medical technology industry association operating the MedTech Europe Code of Ethical Business Practice; comparable to IES as a regional medtech ethics self-regulator.

Emerging players

• Transparência Internacional Brasil: Brazilian chapter of Transparency International focused on anti-corruption, transparency, and integrity in public and private sectors; thematic peer to IES's broader anti-corruption mandate in healthcare.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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