| American Medical Informatics Association | |
|---|---|
| Abbreviation | AMIA |
| Motto | The professional home for biomedical and health informatics |
| Formation | 1989 (23 year ago) merger of NGOs incorporated (40 years ago) |
| Type | NGO |
| Legal status | NPO |
| Purpose/focus | Professional association |
| Headquarters | Bethesda, MD |
| Membership | 4,000 |
| Official languages | English |
| President | Edward H. Shortliffe |
| Key people | Nancy M. Lorenzi, Chair of the Board of Directors |
| Main organ | Assembly |
| Website | http://www.amia.org |
AMIA, formerly known as the American Medical Informatics Association,[1] is an American non-profit organization dedicated to the development and application of biomedical and health informatics in the support of patient care, teaching, research, and health care administration.
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AMIA is the official United States representative to the International Medical Informatics Association. It has grown to more than 4,000 members from 42 countries worldwide. Together, these members represent all basic, applied, and clinical interests in health care information technology. It publishes the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
AMIA was founded in 1989 by the merger of three organizations:
The first President and CEO of AMIA was Don E. Detmer. He was succeeded in July 2009 by Edward H. Shortliffe.
AMIA membership is open to individuals, institutions, and corporations. Members include physicians, nurses, dentists, pharmacists, clinicians, health information technology professionals, computer and information scientists, biomedical engineers, consultants and industry representatives, medical librarians, academic researchers and educators, and advanced students pursuing a career in clinical informatics or health information technology.
AMIA annually holds the following meetings:[2]
AMIA includes a number of working groups: