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For the Aegean islets, see <a href="/wiki/Imia/Kardak" class="mw-redirect" title="Imia/Kardak">Imia/Kardak</a>.</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><caption class="infobox-title fn org">International Medical Informatics Association</caption><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Abbreviation</th><td class="infobox-data nickname">IMIA</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data note">1967<span class="noprint">; 57 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1967</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Founder</th><td class="infobox-data">IFIP, <a href="/wiki/International_Federation_of_Information_Processing" class="mw-redirect" title="International Federation of Information Processing">International Federation of Information Processing</a>: Technical Committee 4</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Type</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Professional_association" title="Professional association">Professional association</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Legal status</th><td class="infobox-data">Registered under Swiss Law</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Focus</th><td class="infobox-data">Biomedical and health informatics</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Location</th><td class="infobox-data label"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Geneva" title="Geneva">Geneva</a>, Switzerland</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Method</th><td class="infobox-data">conferences, publications</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Members </div></th><td class="infobox-data">National and Regional Associations and Universities</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">President</div></th><td class="infobox-data">Brigitte Seroussi (President 2023-Present)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Key people</div></th><td class="infobox-data">Elaine Huesing, (CEO, International Medical Informatics Association</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Main organ</div></th><td class="infobox-data">Assembly</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://imia-medinfo.org/wp">https://imia-medinfo.org/wp</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>International Medical Informatics Association</b> (<b>IMIA</b>) is an <a href="/wiki/Non-governmental_organization" title="Non-governmental organization">independent organization</a> that plays a role in promoting and furthering the application of <a href="/wiki/Information_science" title="Information science">information science</a> in modern society, particularly in the fields of <a href="/wiki/Healthcare" class="mw-redirect" title="Healthcare">healthcare</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bioscience" class="mw-redirect" title="Bioscience">bioscience</a> and <a href="/wiki/Medicine" title="Medicine">medicine</a>. It was established in 1967 as a technical committee of the <a href="/wiki/International_Federation_for_Information_Processing" title="International Federation for Information Processing">International Federation for Information Processing</a> (IFIP). It became an independent organization in 1987 and was established under <a href="/wiki/Switzerland" title="Switzerland">Swiss law</a> in 1989.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Goals_and_objectives">Goals and objectives</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=International_Medical_Informatics_Association&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Goals and objectives"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>the promotion of informatics in <a href="/wiki/Health_care" title="Health care">health care</a> and <a href="/wiki/Biomedical_research" class="mw-redirect" title="Biomedical research">biomedical research</a></li> <li>the advancement of international cooperation</li> <li>the stimulation of <a href="/wiki/Research" title="Research">research</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_product_development" title="New product development">development</a> and <a href="/wiki/Education" title="Education">education</a></li> <li>the dissemination and exchange of information</li></ul> <p>Inherent in this mission is to bring together, from a global perspective, <a href="/wiki/Scientists" class="mw-redirect" title="Scientists">scientists</a>, <a href="/wiki/Researchers" class="mw-redirect" title="Researchers">researchers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Distributor_(business)" class="mw-redirect" title="Distributor (business)">vendors</a>, <a href="/wiki/Consultants" class="mw-redirect" title="Consultants">consultants</a> and suppliers in an environment of cooperation and sharing.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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". </p><p>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. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Code_of_Ethics_for_Health_Information_Professionals">Code of Ethics for Health Information Professionals</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=International_Medical_Informatics_Association&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Code of Ethics for Health Information Professionals"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>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 <a href="/wiki/Taipei" title="Taipei">Taipei</a>. 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 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ab_Baker&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ab Baker (page does not exist)">Ab Baker</a>. </p><p>In 2016, the General Assembly approved an updated version of the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://imia-medinfo.org/wp/imia-code-of-ethics/">Code of Ethics</a>, which was authored by Dr. Eike-Henner W. Kluge, Professor of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Victoria in Victoria, BC, Canada </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Membership">Membership</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=International_Medical_Informatics_Association&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Membership"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>IMIA membership consists of Society, Academic and Corporate Institutional and Affiliate Members and Honorary Fellows. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Society_Members">Society Members</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=International_Medical_Informatics_Association&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Society Members"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/American_Medical_Informatics_Association" title="American Medical Informatics Association">American Medical Informatics Association</a> (AMIA)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060113231753/http://www.aaim.org.ar/">Argentine Association of Medical Informatics</a></li> <li>Australian Institute of Digital Health (AIDH)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081208053347/http://iig.umit.at/akmi/akmi.htm">Working Group Medical Informatics (AKMI) of the Austrian Society for Biomedical Engineering (ÖGBMT) and of the Austrian Computer Society (OCG)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belgian_Medical_Informatics_Association&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Belgian Medical Informatics Association (page does not exist)">Belgian Medical Informatics Association</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brazilian_Society_of_Health_Informatics" title="Brazilian Society of Health Informatics">Brazilian Society of Health Informatics</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bcs.org/BCS/Forums/health">British Computer Society Health Informatics Forum</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080827205718/http://www.bcs.org/BCS/Forums/health">Archived</a> 2008-08-27 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://digitalhealthcanada.com/">Digital Health Canada</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060201010824/http://www.snz.hr/wnew/csmi.html">Croatian Society for Medical Informatics</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.socim.sld.cu/">Cuban Society of Medical Informatics</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cls.cz/">Czech Society for Biomedical Engineering and Medical Informatics</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080704112210/http://www.stty.org/english.htm">Finnish Social and Health Informatics Association (FinnSHIA)</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081128153223/http://documvf.crihan.fr/aim/">French Medical Informatics Association (AIM)</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.gmds.de/">German Association for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20051208043509/http://ghia.nurs.uoa.gr/">Greek Health Informatics Association</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong_Society_of_Medical_Informatics" title="Hong Kong Society of Medical Informatics">Hong Kong Society of Medical Informatics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_von_Neumann_Computer_Society" title="John von Neumann Computer Society">John von Neumann Computer Society (Hungary)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indian_Association_for_Medical_Informatics" title="Indian Association for Medical Informatics">Indian Association for Medical Informatics</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.irmia.org">Iranian Medical Informatics Association</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081210191441/http://www.irmia.org/">Archived</a> 2008-12-10 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hisi.ie/">Healthcare Informatics Society of Ireland</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ila.org.il/Index.asp?CategoryID=134&ArticleID=92">The Israeli Association for Medical informatics</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20171113084555/http://www.ila.org.il/Index.asp?CategoryID=134&ArticleID=92">Archived</a> 2017-11-13 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sibim.net/">Ivorian Society of Biosciences and Health Informatics (ISBHI)</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jami.jp/">Japan Association for Medical Informatics</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.kosmi.org/">Korea Society of Medical Informatics (KOSMI)</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080908191453/http://www.miam.org.mw/">Medical Informatics Association of Malawi (MIAM)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Malaysian_Health_Informatics_Association&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Malaysian Health Informatics Association (page does not exist)">Malaysian Health Informatics Association (MHIA)</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.somibs.net/">The Mali Society of Biomedical and Health Information (SOMBIS)</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hinz.org.nz/">Health Informatics New Zealand</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090813172833/http://www.hinz.org.nz/">Archived</a> 2009-08-13 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ahin.wordpress.com/">Association for Health Informatics of Nigeria (AHIN)</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20051219140929/http://www.fdh.no/mambo/index.php">Norwegian Society for Medical Informatics</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.philmedinfo.org/">Philippine Medical Informatics Society, Inc.</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090206072455/http://www.philmedinfo.org/">Archived</a> 2009-02-06 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://medinfo.umft.ro/rsmi/">Romanian Society of Medical Informatics</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sahi.org.sa/">The Saudi Association for Health Informatics (SAHI)</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ambis.org.sg/">Association for Medical and Bio-Informatics, Singapore (AMBIS)</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sbimi.sk/index_en.htm">Slovak Society of Biomedical Engineering and Medical Informatics</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sdmi.si/">Slovenian Medical Informatics Association (SIMIA)</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sahia.org.za/">South African Health Informatics Association</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.seis.es/">Spanish Society of Health Informatics</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sfmi.se/">Swedish Federation for Medical Informatics</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sgmi-ssim.ch/">Swiss Society for Medical Informatics</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.medinfo.org.tw/html/intro_eng.html">Taiwan Association for Medical Informatics (TAMI)</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.vmbi.nl/">VMBI, Society for Healthcare Informatics (Netherlands)</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.turkmia.org/">Turkish Medical Informatics Association (TURKMIA)</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.uacm.kharkov.ua/eng/index.html">The Ukrainian Association for Computer Medicine (UACM)</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Official_Publications_of_the_International_Medical_Informatics_Association">Official Publications of the International Medical Informatics Association</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=International_Medical_Informatics_Association&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Official Publications of the International Medical Informatics Association"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Source:<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejournals/journal/10.1055/s-00034612">IMIA Yearbook (Schattauer Publishers Stuttgart)</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.aci-journal.org">ACI - Applied Clinical Informatics (Thieme Group)</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/imif20/current">Informatics for Health and Social Care (Taylor & Francis)</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-journal-of-medical-informatics">International Journal of Medical Informatics (Elsevier)</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejournals/journal/10.1055/s-00035037">Methods of Information in Medicine (Thieme Group)</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://informatics.bmj.com/">BMJ Health & Care Informatics (British Medical Journal)</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Working_and_special_interest_groups">Working and special interest groups</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=International_Medical_Informatics_Association&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Working and special interest groups"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>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. </p><p>IMIA Working Groups and Special Interest Groups include: </p> <ul><li>Accident & Emergency Informatics<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Data Mining and Big Data Analytics</li> <li>Dental Informatics</li> <li>Ethics, Privacy and Security in Health Informatics</li> <li>Exposome Informatics</li> <li>Francophone Special Interest Group</li> <li>Health and <a href="/wiki/Medical_informatics" class="mw-redirect" title="Medical informatics">Medical Informatics</a> <a href="/wiki/Education" title="Education">Education</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Health_informatics" title="Health informatics">Health Informatics</a> for <a href="/wiki/International_development" title="International development">Development</a></li> <li>Health Informatics for Patient Safety<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Health Information Systems (HIS)</li> <li>Health Record Banking</li> <li>History of BioMedical and Health Informatics<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Human Factors Engineering for Health Informatics</li> <li>Language and Meaning in Biomedicine</li> <li>Nursing Informatics Special Interest Group - IMIA NI SIG</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Open_source" title="Open source">One Digital Health</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Open_source" title="Open source">Open Source</a> <a href="/wiki/Health_informatics" title="Health informatics">Health Informatics</a></li> <li>Organizational and Social Issues</li> <li>Participatory Health and Social Media</li> <li>Primary Health Care Informatics</li> <li>Smart Homes & Ambient Assisted Living</li> <li>Standards in Health Care Informatics</li> <li>Student & Emerging Professionals SIG</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Technology_assessment" title="Technology assessment">Technology Assessment</a> & Quality Development in Health Informatics (WG 15)</li> <li>Telehealth</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=International_Medical_Informatics_Association&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/European_Federation_for_Medical_Informatics" title="European Federation for Medical Informatics">European Federation for Medical Informatics</a> (EFMI)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/ISO_TC_215" class="mw-redirect" title="ISO TC 215">ISO TC 215</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MedInfo" title="MedInfo">MedInfo</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=International_Medical_Informatics_Association&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Welcome to IMIA. 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