Incorporated under the laws of Switzerland IMIA Working Group 2018 Reports WG10 – History of BioMedical and Health Informatics 2018 Report - June 2017 to June 2018 presented in Colombo, Sri Lanka for: • IMIA Board Meeting, October 8, 2018, • IMIA General Assembly Meeting, October 9, 2018 Chair (2014 - 2018) Casimir A. Kulikowski Department of Computer Science Rutgers University Piscataway, New Jersey USA Email:
[email protected] Vice-Chairs (2014 - 2018) George Mihalas Victor Babes University of Medicine & Pharmacy Timisoara, Romania Email:
[email protected] Valerio Yacubsohn School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine University of Buenos Aires Buenos Aires, Argentina Email:
[email protected] Robert A. Greenes Department of Biomedical Informatics Arizona State University Tempe, AZ, USA. Email:
[email protected] Hyeoun-Ae Park College of Nursing Seoul National University Seoul, Korea Email:
[email protected] Website for WG: https://imia-medinfo.org/wp/history-of-biomedical-and-health-informatics/ Brief Background The Biomedical and Health Informatics History Working Group of IMIA was approved at the IMIA GA held in New Delhi in conjunction with APAMI 2014 in August, 2014, and held its first official meeting in conjunction with Medinfo 2015 in Sao Paulo in August 2015. The IMIA History Working Group’s main objectives are to sponsor meetings, investigations, studies and generate materials and publications on the history of biomedical and health informatics. It has continued and is extending the activities of the IMIA History Task Force on the 50th Anniversary of Medical Informatics, providing coordinating mechanisms for activities of different professional, regional and national groups engaged in related historical studies of the field.