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Information on IMIA Information on IMIA WELCOME TO IMIA! with care givers, consultants, vendors, International and vendor-based researchers; General • leading the international medical and Medical Informatics The International Medical Informatics health informatics communities Association Association is an independent organi- throughout the 21st century; zation established under Swiss law in 1989. • promoting the cross-fertilization of health informatics information and IMIA BOARD The organization was established in 1967 as Technical Committee 4 of the Inter- knowledge across professional and President: geographical boundaries; and Nancy Lorenzi, United States national Federation for Information • serving as the catalyst for ubiquitous 2004-2007 Processing (IFIP). In 1979, it evolved from worldwide health information infra- Past President: a Special Interest Group of IFIP to its current K.C. Lun, Singapore status as a fully independent organization. structures for patient care and health 2004-2005 IMIA continues to maintain its relationship research. Secretary: with IFIP as an affiliate organization. Diarmuid UaConaill, Ireland The organization also has close ties with Membership 2003-2006 the World Health Organization (WHO) as IMIA membership consists of National, Treasurer: a NGO (Non Government Organization). Institutional and Affiliate Members and Batami Sadan, Israel The working language of IMIA is English. Honorary Fellows. 2004-2007 National Members represent individual Vice Presidents: Purpose, Goals, Objectives countries. A member is a society, a MedInfo IMIA plays a major global role in the group of societies, or an appropriate Antoine Geissbuhler, Switzerland body, which is representative of the (2004-2007) application of information science and medical, and health informatics activi- Services technology in the fields of healthcare and ties within that country. In the absence Reinhold Haux, Germany (2002-2005) research in medical, health and biomedical Membership informatics. The basic goals and objectives of a national member society, IMIA ac- Vimla Patel, United States (2003-2006) of the association are to: commodates involvement by individu- Working & Special Interest Groups als through a ”Corresponding” member- Evelyn Hovenga, Australia (2003-2006) • promote informatics in health care and ship in developing countries and pro- Special Services research in health, bio and medical vides encouragement to form a represen- Hiroshi Takeda, Japan (2004-2007) informatics; tative society. • advance and nurture international IMIA Executive Director: National IMIA members may organize into Steven A. Huesing, Canada (2004-2008) cooperation; • stimulate research, development and regional groups. Currently, such regions IMIA Web site: www.imia.org routine application; exist for Latin America and the Caribbean • move informatics from theory into (IMIA LAC), Europe (EFMI), Asia/Pacific Regional Groups practice in a full range of health delivery (APAMI) and Africa (Helina). Institutional Members consist of corpo- EFMI: European Federation settings, from physician’s office to rate and academic members. Corporate for Medical Informatics acute and long term care; • further the dissemination and exchange members include vendor, consulting, Liaison: technology firms as well as national profes- Assa Reichertz, Israel of knowledge, information and technology; sional organizations. Academic members IMIA-LAC: Federation of Health • promote education and responsible include universities, medical centres, re- Societies in Latin America behaviour; and search centres and other similar institu- President: • represent the medical and health infor- tions. Lincoln de Assis Moura, Brazil matics field with the World Health Affiliate Members consist of international APAMI: Asian Pacific Organization and other international organizations that share an interest in the Association for Medical professional and governmental broad field of health and medical Informatics organizations. informatics. In addition to WHO and IFIP, President: the International Federation of Health Yun-Sik Kwak, Korea In its function as a bridge organization, Records Organizations (IFHRO) is an af- African Region: IMIA’s goals are: filiate member of IMIA Coordinator: • moving theory into practice by linking Honorary Fellows are individuals who Sedick S. Isaacs, South Africa academic and research informaticians have demonstrated exceptional meritori- IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics 2005 9 Information on IMIA International ous service in furthering the aims and Activities interests of the IMIA; fellowship is con- MEDInfo’s ferred for life. In 2004 the honour of fellow- Medical Informatics IMIA organizes the internationally ac- ship was awarded to Dr. K.C. Lun, IMIA claimed tri-annual ”World Congress on Past President, from Singapore for his dem- Association Medical and Health Informatics”, onstrated leadership and his many years MedInfo. MedInfo 2007 will be held in of self-less service to IMIA (Continued) Brisbane, Australia August 20-24, 2007. Potential participants and exhibitors are Governance encouraged to visit their web site at www. IMIA is governed by a General Assembly medinfo2007 .org. The Health Informatics that consists of one representative from Society of Australia Ltd (HISA) is the each IMIA National and Institutional hosting society for MedInfo 2004. This member, Honorary Fellows, Chairs of marks the 1st time that a MedInfo has been IMIA’s Working Groups and a held ”Down Under”. representative from IFIP, the World Health Previous MedInfo’s have been held in Organization, and each of IMIA’s Regions. Stockholm, Sweden (1974), Toronto, Only National Members have full voting Canada, (1977), Tokyo, Japan (1980), rights. The General Assembly meets Amsterdam, The Netherlands (1983), annually. Washington, USA (1986), Beijing/ The Board of IMIA, elected by the General Singapore (1989), Geneva, Switzerland Assembly, conducts the association’s (1992), Vancouver, Canada (1995), Seoul, affairs. The day-to-day operations are Korea (1998) London, United Kingdom supported by the IMIA’s Executive (2001) and San Francisco, USA (2004). Director who is also responsible for IMIA’s electronic services. Working and Special Interest Groups The officers of the Board and IMIA’s vice The IMIA family includes a growing presidents vigorously pursue IMIA’s number of Working and Special Interest mission to: Groups, which consist of individuals who • Monitor the range of special interest share common interests in a particular focal areas and focus support on new field. The groups hold Working Confer- developments. ences on leading edge and timely health, • Capitalize on the synergies and medical and bio-medical informatics issues. collective resources of IMIA’s Current and future activities of the Working constituents. and Special Interest Groups are posted on • Minimize fragmentation between the IMIA Website at www.imia.org. scientific and professional medical informaticians. • Ensure successful adaptation to Activities & Initiatives changes in the medical informatics IMIA code of Ethics marketplace and discipline. IMIA reached a major milestone by the • Raise the profile and awareness of IMIA adoption of the ”IMIA Code of Ethics for within and outside of the IMIA Health Information Professionals”. The organization. approval of the code in 2002 was the • Encourage cooperation between the culmination of years of ongoing effort on scientific and commercial health the part of IMIA’s Working Group on Data informatics communities. Protection in Health Information Systems • Equitably balance support to emerging under the leadership of Prof. Ab Bakker and existing IMIA members. (The Netherlands). The primary author of • Establish and maintain cooperation and the code, based on the contributions of a harmony with organizations that multiplicity of individuals, agencies and emerge to address medical informatics organizations, is Dr. Eike-Henner W. Kluge issues. (Canada). The code has been translated • Continue to position IMIA as the into several languages and is freely avail- gatekeeper for medical informatics is- able to the public at IMIA’s website sues in the international community www.imia.org. 10 IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics 2005 Information on IMIA IMIA-UMIT Medical Informatics Award zation by better meeting the needs of mem- International of Excellence bers and the global health informatics com- Medical Informatics Through the generosity of TILAK, one of munity worldwide. It is anticipated that IMIA’s Corporate Institutional members, this will result in the development of a Association IMIA approved the creation of the tri- strategic plan for IMIA at the 2005 IMIA annual IMIA-UMIT Medical Informatics General assembly meeting. (Continued) Award of Excellence. This honour is awarded to an individual whose personal General commitment and dedication to Medical IMIA continues to develop its communi- Informatics has made a lasting contribution cation capabilities through its web-site to medicine and health care through their www.imia.org. The site contains pro- achievements in research, education, files on its members, working groups development or application in the field of and activities. A dynamic database is medical informatics. The Award includes a employed to facilitate user-friendly com- Diploma, a cash prize and the opportunity munications for news, announcements, to give the IMIA/UMIT Medical and an events calendar for the public, Informatics Award Lecture at a plenary