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Includes membership information, history and bylaws. Details of FORE - Foundation of Research and Education the charitable affiliate organization of AHIMA.
http://www.ahima.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.
http://www.amia.org/

Society details including: mission statement and history, membership information, news of workshops and conferences, 'Health Informatics' Journal and 'Biomedical Informatics Today' Newsletter.
http://www.bmis.org

US not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting a better understanding of health care information and management systems.
http://www.himss.org/

International not-for-profit organization promoting medical informatics in health care and biomedical research. Includes membership information, member societies, newsletter and events.
http://www.imia.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.
http://www.mshug-euro.org/

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.
http://www.amia.org/acmi/acmi.html

Stated aim is to improve the practice of medicine and advance the field of Applied Medical Informatics. Links to 'The Informatics Review'. An on-line journal focusing on clinical computing and medical informatics.
http://www.amdis.org/

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.
http://www.achi.org.au

Variety of activities to enhance access to and quality of e-health resources.Details of Fourth Annual eHealth Developers' Summit in November 2003.
http://www.ehealthinstitute.org/index.cfm

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.
http://www.efmi.org/efmi/default.asp

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.
http://www.hisa.org.au/

National not-for-profit organisation. Conferences and seminar details. Membership login provided.
http://www.hinz.org.nz/

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.
http://www.medrecinst.com/

Serving the professional development needs of healthcare CIOs, and advocating the more effective use of information management within healthcare.
http://www.cio-chime.org/default.html

Portal to a range of conferences and committee sites.
http://www.health-informatics.org/

Workshop proceedings, reports and upcoming events contributed by members of this working group of the European Research Consortium Group for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM).
http://www.vtt.fi/tte/tre/projects/ercim/ercim.htm

Focuses on informatics collaboration with details of workshops, publications, readings, events, contacts and partnership details and links.
http://phii.org

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.
http://www.msia.com.au/

Databases and information systems that support research to evaluate the reliability and validity of data used in veterans health services research. Data requires logons.
http://www.virec.research.med.va.gov

Voluntary organization of 35 member institutions focused on computing and communication technologies in the management of health information. Details of membership, grants, news, meetings and publications.
http://www.iaimscons.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.
http://pciwg.amia.org/

Useful site for wide range of health informatics issues.
http://www.mshug.org/

Non-government organisation with IMIA affiliation designed to promote medical informatics. Contact details, newsletter,links, education, feedback and conferences listed.
http://iamindia.org

Professionals responsible for health record management. Details of organisation, calender, contacts, links, application information and newsletter.
http://www.cthima.org