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MEDINFO is the name of the international medical informatics conference organized every 3 years by the International Medical Informatics Association. It is the most important international conference in the field with 3000+ health and medical informatics professions attending from all over the world. MEDINFO also serves to bring together all officers of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) Board together with national representatives in the General Assembly of IMIA.
The General Assembly elects the officers of IMIA. The IMIA Board consists of the President (the Past or the Elect President), Treasurer and Secretary as its officers. In addition it has other Vice Presidents for targeted areas: Membership, Medinfo, Services, Special Affairs, Strategic Plan Implementation, and Working Groups. With the exception of the President and the Vice President of Medinfo all officers serve a three year term that can be extended for a second three year term. The President is on a 5 year cycle and the Vice President of Medinfo has one 3 year cycle and elected the year before the next Medinfo meeting so that he/she can be mentored through one Medinfo cycle.
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MEDINFO conferences
MEDINFO has been held every 3 years since its inception in 1974. The table below gives an overview of these conferences.
Number Year Date Location Organizing Partner Organizing Committee Chair(s) Scientific Program Committee Chair(s) Editorial Committee 1 1974 Aug 5-10 Stockholm, Sweden IFIP World Congress Francois Grémy John Anderson, J. Malcolm Forsythe 2 1977 Aug 8-12 Toronto, Canada IFIP TC-4 Meeting Werner Schneider David B. Shires, Hermann K. Wolf 3 1980 Sep 29-Oct 4 Tokyo, Japan Masamitsu Oshima Morris F. Collen Donald A. B. Lindberg, Shigekoto Kaihara 4 1983 Aug 22-27 Amsterdam, The Netherlands Jan Roukens Gwilym S. Lodwick Jan Hendrik van Bemmel, Marion J. Ball, Ove Wigertz 5 1986 Oct 26-30 Washington DC, USA American Medical Informatics Association Donald A. B. Lindberg Jan van Bemmel, Edward H. Shortliffe Roger Salamon, Bruce I. Blum, Mogens Jørgensen 6 1989 Oct 17-20, Dec 11-15 Beijing, China and Singapore K. C. Lun Barry Barber, Dexian Cao, Dulie Qin, Gustav Wagner 7 1992 Sep 6-10 Geneva, Switzerland Swiss Society for Medical Informatics Jean-Raoul Scherrer Salah Mandil K. C. Lun, Patrice Degoulet, Thomas E. Piemme, Otto Rienhoff 8 1995 July 23-27 Vancouver, Canada Canada's Health Informatics Association Kathryn Hannah Shigekoto Kaihara Robert A. Greenes, Hans E. Petersen, Denis J. Protti 9 1998 Aug 14-21 Seoul, South Korea Korean Society of Medical Informatics Chang Soon Koh Charles Safran, Patrice Degoulet Branko Cesnik, Alexa Thorlichen McCray, Jean-Raoul Scherrer 10 2001 Sep 2-5 London, UK British Computer Society Health Informatics Forum Jean Roberts Arie Hasman, Hiroshi Takeda Vimla L. Patel, Ray Rogers, Reinhold Haux, Beatriz de Faria Leão 11 2004 Sep 7-11 San Francisco, USA American Medical Informatics Association Edward H. Shortliffe Mario Stefanelli, Casimir Kulikowski Marius Fieschi, Enrico Coiera, Yu-Chan Jack Li 11 2007 Aug 20–24 Brisbane, Australia Health Informatics Society of Australia Evelyn J.S. Hovenga Alexa T. McCray, Heimar de Fátima Marin Klaus. A. Kuhn, James R. Warren, Tze-Yun Leong 12 2010 Sep 13-16 Cape Town, South Africa South African Health Informatics Association Lyn Hanmer Riccardo Bellazzi, Johanna Westbrook Charles Safran, Heimar de Fátima Marin, Shane Reti Other definitions
Medinfo is also an acronym for Medical Information, often a pharmaceutical information service provided by pharmacovigilance or medical affairs departments.
See also
References
- Peterson, H. and Hutter, M., IMIA's publication history. IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics 2007. Methods Inf. Med. v46 iSuppl. 1. 192-196. ISBN 978-3-7945-2608-6
- Anderson, J., Forsythe, J.M. (Eds.), MEDINFO 74, North-Holland, Amsterdam. ISBN 0444107711
- Shires, D.B., Wolf, H. (Eds.), MEDINFO 77, North-Holland, Amsterdam. ISBN 9780720407549
- Lindberg, D.A.B., Kaihara, S. (Eds.), MEDINFO 80, North-Holland, Amsterdam. ISBN 0444860290
- van Bemmel, J.H., Ball, M.J., Wigertz, O. (Eds.), MEDINFO 83, North-Holland, Amsterdam. ISBN 044486525X
- Salamon, R., Blum, B.I., Jørgensen, M. (Eds.), MEDINFO 86, North-Holland, Amsterdam. ISBN 0444701109
- Barber, B., Cao, D., Qin, D., Wagner, G. (Eds.), MEDINFO 89, North-Holland, Amsterdam. ISBN 0444881387
- Lun, K.C., Degoulet, P., Piemme, T.E., Rienhoff, O. (Eds.), MEDINFO 92, North-Holland, Amsterdam. ISBN 978-0444896681
- Greenes, R.A., Peterson, H.E., Protti, D.J. (Eds.), MEDINFO 95, North-Holland, Amsterdam. ISBN 978-0969741411
- Cesnik, B., McCray, A.T., Scherrer, J.R. (Eds.), MEDINFO 98, IOS Press, Amsterdam. ISBN 978-9051994070
- Patel, V., Rogers, R., Haux, R. (Eds.), MEDINFO 01, IOS Press, Amsterdam. ISBN 978-1-58603-194-7
- Fieschi, M., Coiera, E., Li, Y.-C. (Eds.), MEDIFNO 04, IOS Press, Amsterdam. ISBN 978-1-58603-444-3
- Kuhn, K.A., Warren, J.R., Leong, T.-Y. (Eds.), MEDINFO 2007, IOS Press, Amsterdam. ISBN 978-1-58603-774-1
External links
- http://www.medinfo2010.org/ (Cape Town, South Africa)
- http://imia.org
Categories:- Health informatics
- Medical informatics
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