American Medical Informatics Association
| Abbreviation | AMIA |
|---|---|
| Motto | Informatics Professionals. Leading the Way. |
| Formation | 1989, merger of NGOs incorporated in 1972 |
| Type | NGO |
| Legal status | NPO |
| Purpose | Professional association |
| Headquarters | Bethesda, MD |
Membership | 5,000 |
Official language | English |
President | Douglas B. Fridsma |
Key people | Blackford Middleton, MD, MPH, MSc, FACMI, Chair of the Board of Directors |
Main organ | Assembly |
| Website |
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The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), is an American non-profit organization dedicated to the development and application of biomedical and health informatics in the support of patient care, teaching, research, and health care administration.
History
AMIA is the official United States representative to the International Medical Informatics Association. It has grown to more than 5,000 members from 42 countries worldwide. Together, these members represent all basic, applied, and clinical interests in health care information technology. It publishes the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
AMIA is a professional scientific association that was formed by the merger of three organizations in 1988: 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).
Founding
AMIA was founded in 1989 by the merger of three organizations:
- American Association for Medical Systems and Informatics
- American College of Medical Informatics
- Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care
Leadership
The first President and CEO of AMIA was Don E. Detmer. He was succeeded in July 2009 by Edward H. Shortliffe. In March 2012, he was succeeded by Kevin Fickenscher. The current CEO is Douglas B. Fridsma.
Membership
AMIA membership is open to individuals, institutions, and corporations. Members include physicians, nurses, dentists, pharmacists, clinicians, health information technology professionals, computer and information scientists, biomedical engineers, consultants and industry representatives, medical librarians, academic researchers and educators, and advanced students pursuing a career in clinical informatics or health information technology.
Meetings and education
AMIA annually holds the following meetings:[1]
- AMIA Annual Symposium
- The AMIA Joint Summit on Translational Science comprising:
- AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics
- AMIA Summit on Clinical Research Informatics
- iHealth
Working and special interest groups
AMIA includes a number of working groups:
- Clinical Information Systems
- Clinical Research Informatics
- Consumer Health Informatics
- Dental Informatics
- Education
- Ethical, Legal, & Social Issues
- Evaluation
- Formal (Bio)Medical Knowledge Representation
- Genomics
- Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
- Knowledge in Motion
- Medical Imaging Systems
- Natural Language Processing
- Nursing Informatics
- Open Source
- People & Organizational Issues
- Pharmacoinformatics
- Primary Care Informatics
- Public health informatics
- Student
See also
- eHealth
- Master of Science in Bioinformatics