International+Medical+Informatics+Association

=International Medical Informatics Association= = =

**Overview:**

 * T**he [|International Medical Informatics Association] (IMIA) is an independent organization established in 1967 as a technical committee of the [|International Federation for Information Processing] (IFIP). IMIA plays a major global role in the application of information science and technology in the fields of health care and research in medical, health and bio informatics. In the next few years IMIA plans to “bridge the knowledge gap” by providing medical research support to developing nations.

Membership:
IMIA has four different membership levels.
 * # **National Members** - These represents individual countries. A "member" is a large society or group of societies. [[image:file:///C:/Users/Matt/AppData/Local/Temp/moz-screenshot.jpg]][[image:file:///C:/Users/Matt/AppData/Local/Temp/moz-screenshot-1.jpg]]
 * 1) **Institutional Members** - These consist of corporate and academic members. For example these would include technology firms and universities.
 * 2) **Affiliate Members** - These consist of international organizations that share an interest in health informatics.
 * 3) **Honorary Members** - These consists of individuals who have earned a special title for their dedication to the field of medical informatics. || [[image:imia_C_D.jpg]] ||

IMIA's Objectives:

 * Promote informatics in health care and research in health, bio and medical informatics.
 * Advance and nurture international cooperation.
 * Stimulate research, development and routine application.
 * Promote education and responsible behavior.
 * Leading the international medical and health informatics communities throughout the 21st century.
 * Promoting the cross-fertilization of health informatics information and knowledge across professional and geographical boundaries.

National Member Societies:

 * [|Argentine Association of Medical Informatics]
 * [|Health Informatics Society of Australia Ltd. (HISA)]
 * [|Belgian Medical Informatics Association]
 * Society for Medical Informatics of Bosnia and Herzegovina
 * [|Brazilian Society of Health Informatics]
 * [|COACH: Canada's Health Informatics Association]
 * China Medical Informatics Association
 * [|Croatian Society for Medical Informatics]
 * Cuban Society of Medical Informatics
 * [|Czech Society for Biomedical Engineering and Medical Informatics]
 * [|The Danish Society for 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
 * [|Healthcare Informatics Society of Ireland]
 * The Israeli Association for Medical informatics
 * [|Italian Medical Informatics Society (AIIM)]
 * [|Japan Association for Medical Informatics]
 * [|Korea Society of Medical Informatics (KOSMI)]
 * [|Malaysian Health Informatics Association (MHIA)]
 * [|The Mali Society of Biomedical and Health Information (SOMBIS)]
 * [|Health Informatics New Zealand]
 * [|Norwegian Society for Medical Informatics]
 * Philippine Medical Informatics Society, Inc.
 * Polish Society of Medical Informatics
 * [|Romanian Society of Medical Informatics]
 * [|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]
 * [|VMBI, Society for Healthcare Informatics (Netherlands)]
 * [|Turkish Medical Informatics Association (TURKMIA)]
 * [|British Computer Society Health Informatics Forum]
 * [|American Medical Informatics Association]
 * [|Uruguayan Society of Health Informatics]

Resources:
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 * [|International Medical Informatics Association]
 * [|American Medical Informatics Association]
 * [|American Nursing Informatics Association]
 * [|Canadian Nursing Informatics Association]
 * [|International Hospital Federation]
 * [|World Heart Federation]