- American Medical Informatics Association - http://www.amia.org/
US not-for-profit organization dedicated to the development and application of medical informatics in the support of patient care, teaching, research, and health care administration.
- British Medical Informatics Society - http://www.bmis.org
Society details including: mission statement and history, membership information, news of workshops and conferences, 'Health Informatics' Journal and 'Biomedical Informatics Today' Newsletter.
- International Medical Informatics Association - http://www.imia.org/
International not-for-profit organization promoting medical informatics in health care and biomedical research. Includes membership information, member societies, newsletter and events.
- Microsoft Healthcare Users Group Europe - http://www.mshug-euro.org/
Forum for exchanging ideas, promoting learning and sharing solutions for information systems using Microsoft technologies, within the European healthcare industry. Includes membership, event and contact information.
- American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) - http://www.amia.org/acmi/acmi.html
A college of elected fellows within American Medical Informatics Association who have contributed significantly to medical informatics. It grew from the American Association for Medical Systems and Informatics (AAMSI) and the Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care (SCAMC) when the AMIA was formed in 1989.
- Australian College of Health Informatics - http://www.achi.org.au
An Australian health informatics professional body. Newly established it intends to represent the interests of a broad range of clinical and non-clinical professionals working within health informatics.
- eHealth Institute - http://www.ehealthinstitute.org/index.cfm
Variety of activities to enhance access to and quality of e-health resources.Details of Fourth Annual eHealth Developers' Summit in November 2003.
- European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI) - http://www.efmi.org/efmi/default.asp
Nonprofit organisation concerned with the theory and practice of information science and technology in European health.Each European country, as defined by the WHO Region, is represented in the Federation by a suitable Health Informatics Society.
- Health Informatics Society of Australia Ltd - http://www.hisa.org.au/
HISA was established in 1992 by representatives of health informatics groups operating within Australia. Site has many features including links, downloads and publications. Details the Health Informatics Conference (HIC) held in Australia.
- Medical Records Institute (MRI) - http://www.medrecinst.com/
An international forum for sharing knowledge, experience, and solutions with healthcare practitioners,professionals in information system (IS) and health information management (HIM). Conducts the Toward an Electronic Patient Record (TEPR)annual conference on e-health and clinical IT issues. Publishes the Health IT Advisory Report.
- ERCIM Working Group on Health and Information Technology - http://www.vtt.fi/tte/tre/projects/ercim/ercim.htm
Workshop proceedings, reports and upcoming events contributed by members of this working group of the European Research Consortium Group for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM).
- Medical Software Industry Association - http://www.msia.com.au/
Active in Australia since 1995 representing vendors and developers at the government level on initiatives such as Health Online, as well as a range of forums, working groups and committees. Members details, discussion, links, events are shown.
- VA Information Resource Center (VIReC) - http://www.virec.research.med.va.gov
Databases and information systems that support research to evaluate the reliability and validity of data used in veterans health services research. Data requires logons.
- AMIA Primary Care Informatics Working Group - http://pciwg.amia.org/
Provides an environment for discussion of, education about, and research into primary-care informatics. Provides news, links to AMIA, membership details, a bibliography, details of conferences, meetings, papers and presentations, reports and workshops. There is a discussion list, links, membership information and policies.
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