International Medical Informatics Association

Geneva, Switzerland

Methodconferences, publications

Members

National and Regional Associations and Universities

President

Brigitte Seroussi (President 2023-Present)

Key people

Elaine Huesing, (CEO, International Medical Informatics Association

Main organ

AssemblyWebsitehttps://imia-medinfo.org/wp

The International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) is an independent organization that plays a role in promoting and furthering the application of information science in modern society, particularly in the fields of healthcare, bioscience and medicine. It was established in 1967 as a technical committee of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). It became an independent organization in 1987 and was established under Swiss law in 1989.^[1]

Goals and objectives

the promotion of informatics in health care and biomedical research
the advancement of international cooperation
the stimulation of research, development and education
the dissemination and exchange of information

Inherent in this mission is to bring together, from a global perspective, scientists, researchers, vendors, consultants and suppliers in an environment of cooperation and sharing.^[2] The international membership network of national member societies, IMIA regions, corporate and academic institutional members, and working and special interest groups, constitute the "IMIA family".

IMIA organizes various conferences and events around the world and is currently focusing on "bridging the knowledge gap" by facilitating and providing support to developing nations. Specific goals include supporting the ongoing development of the African Region.

Code of Ethics for Health Information Professionals

The International Medical Informatics Association approved the endorsement of the IMIA Code of Ethics for Health Information Professionals at its General Assembly meeting on October 4, 2002, in Taipei. The code is the culmination of several years of a global collaborative effort led by IMIA's working Group on Data Protection in Health Information, Chaired by Professor Ab Baker.

In 2016, the General Assembly approved an updated version of the Code of Ethics, which was authored by Dr. Eike-Henner W. Kluge, Professor of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Victoria in Victoria, BC, Canada

Membership

IMIA membership consists of Society, Academic and Corporate Institutional and Affiliate Members and Honorary Fellows.

Society Members

American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)
Argentine Association of Medical Informatics
Australian Institute of Digital Health (AIDH)
Working Group Medical Informatics (AKMI) of the Austrian Society for Biomedical Engineering (ÖGBMT) and of the Austrian Computer Society (OCG)
Belgian Medical Informatics Association
Brazilian Society of Health Informatics
British Computer Society Health Informatics Forum Archived 2008-08-27 at the Wayback Machine
Digital Health Canada
Croatian Society for Medical Informatics
Cuban Society of Medical Informatics
Czech Society for Biomedical Engineering and Medical Informatics
Finnish Social and Health Informatics Association (FinnSHIA)
French Medical Informatics Association (AIM)
German Association for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology
Greek Health Informatics Association
Hong Kong Society of Medical Informatics
John von Neumann Computer Society (Hungary)
Indian Association for Medical Informatics
Iranian Medical Informatics Association Archived 2008-12-10 at the Wayback Machine
Healthcare Informatics Society of Ireland
The Israeli Association for Medical informatics
Ivorian Society of Biosciences and Health Informatics (ISBHI)
Japan Association for Medical Informatics
Korea Society of Medical Informatics (KOSMI)
Medical Informatics Association of Malawi (MIAM)
Malaysian Health Informatics Association (MHIA)
The Mali Society of Biomedical and Health Information (SOMBIS)
Health Informatics New Zealand Archived 2009-08-13 at the Wayback Machine
Association for Health Informatics of Nigeria (AHIN)
Norwegian Society for Medical Informatics
Philippine Medical Informatics Society, Inc.
Romanian Society of Medical Informatics
The Saudi Association for Health Informatics (SAHI)
Association for Medical and Bio-Informatics, Singapore (AMBIS)
Slovak Society of Biomedical Engineering and Medical Informatics
Slovenian Medical Informatics Association (SIMIA)
South African Health Informatics Association
Spanish Society of Health Informatics
Swedish Federation for Medical Informatics
Swiss Society for Medical Informatics
Taiwan Association for Medical Informatics (TAMI)
VMBI, Society for Healthcare Informatics (Netherlands)
Turkish Medical Informatics Association (TURKMIA)
The Ukrainian Association for Computer Medicine (UACM)

Official Publications of the International Medical Informatics Association

Source:^[3]

IMIA Yearbook (Schattauer Publishers Stuttgart)
ACI - Applied Clinical Informatics (Thieme Group)
Informatics for Health and Social Care (Taylor & Francis)
International Journal of Medical Informatics (Elsevier)
Methods of Information in Medicine (Thieme Group)
BMJ Health & Care Informatics (British Medical Journal)

Working and special interest groups

The IMIA family includes a growing number of Working and Special Interest Groups, which consist of individuals who share common interests in a particular focal field. The groups hold Working Conferences on leading edge and timely health and medical informatics issues.

IMIA Working Groups and Special Interest Groups include:

Accident & Emergency Informatics^[4]
Data Mining and Big Data Analytics
Dental Informatics
Ethics, Privacy and Security in Health Informatics
Exposome Informatics
Francophone Special Interest Group
Health and Medical Informatics Education
Health Informatics for Development
Health Informatics for Patient Safety^[5]
Health Information Systems (HIS)
Health Record Banking
History of BioMedical and Health Informatics^[6]
Human Factors Engineering for Health Informatics
Language and Meaning in Biomedicine
Nursing Informatics Special Interest Group - IMIA NI SIG
One Digital Health
Open Source Health Informatics
Organizational and Social Issues
Participatory Health and Social Media
Primary Health Care Informatics
Smart Homes & Ambient Assisted Living
Standards in Health Care Informatics
Student & Emerging Professionals SIG
Technology Assessment & Quality Development in Health Informatics (WG 15)
Telehealth

References

^ Welcome to IMIA. Yearb Med Inform. 2017 Aug;26(1):269–71. doi:10.1055/s-0037-1606513. Epub 2017 Aug 19. PMCID: PMC6246120.
^ "IMIA History Book". imia-medinfo.org/.
^ "IMIA's five official journals". imia-medinfo.org/. October 26, 2022.
^ "Accident & Emergency Informatics – IMIA A&EI WG". imia-medinfo.org/.
^ "Health Informatics for Patient Safety WG". imia-medinfo.org/.
^ "History of BioMedical and Health Informatics WG". imia-medinfo.org/.