Organizations
From Rutgers Medical Informatics History Project
American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) - ACMI was constituted as a non-profit professional organization in 1984. It was merged into the newly-founded American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) in 1989. ACMI has sponsored a series of Annual Symposia since 1993.
American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) - Founded in 1989 from the American Association
for Medical Systems and Informatics (AAMSI), the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI), and the Symposium on
Computer Applications in Medical Care (SCAMC)
International Medical Informatics Associations (IMIA) - Established under Swiss law in 1989. IMIA originated
in 1967 as Technical Committee 4 of the International
Federation for Information Processing (IFIP - www.ifip.org). In
1979, it evolved from a Special Interest Group of IFIP to its
current status as a fully independent organization. IMIA
continues to maintain its relationship with IFIP as an affiliate
organization. IMIA also has close ties with the World Health
Organization (WHO - www.who.int) as a NGO (Non Government
Organization), and with the International Federation of Health
Information Management (IFHIMA). IMIA is also a Liaison A
category organisation in cooperation with ISO (ISO liaison). List of IMIA Member Organizations
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences (IOM)
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Healtcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
