Organizations
From Rutgers Medical Informatics History Project
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). 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.
List of IMIA Member Organizations
Historically Related Organizations:
American Association for Medical Systems and Informatics (AAMSI)
Society for Computer Medicine (SMC)
International Federation for Information Processing, Technical Committee 4 (IFIP-TC4)
Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
Medical Library Association (MLA)
National LIbrary of Medicine (NLM)
Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences (IOM)
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
