MedInfo
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.
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 (AMIA) | 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 (AMIA) | 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 |
| 13 | 2013 | Aug 20–23 | Copenhagen, Denmark | Danish Society of Medical Informatics (DSMI) | Lene Vistisen (Denmark) | Dominik Aronsky (Switzerland), Tze‐Yun Leong (Singapore) | Christoph U. Lehmann (US, Chair), Christian Nøhr (Denmark), Elske Ammenwerth (Austria) |
| 14 | 2015 | Aug 19-23 | São Paulo, Brasil | Brazilian Society of Health Informatics (SBIS) | Beatriz de Faria Leão (Brazil), Claudio Giulliano Alves da Costa (Brazil) | Fernando Martin Sanchez (Australia), Kaija Saranto (Finland) | Indra Neil Sarkar (US, Chair), Paulo Mazzoncini de Azevedo Marques (Brazil), Andrew Georgiou (Australia) |
| 15 | 2017 | Beijing, China |
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. (2007). "IMIA's publication history". IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics Methods Inf. Med. v46 iSuppl. 1. 192-196. ISBN 978-3-7945-2608-6.
- Anderson, J., Forsythe, J.M. (Eds.). MEDINFO 74. Amsterdam: North-Holland. ISBN 0-444-10771-1.
- Shires, D.B., Wolf, H. (Eds.). MEDINFO 77. Amsterdam: North-Holland. ISBN 978-0-7204-0754-9.
- Lindberg, D.A.B., Kaihara, S. (Eds.). MEDINFO 80. Amsterdam: North-Holland. ISBN 0-444-86029-0.
- van Bemmel, J.H., Ball, M.J., Wigertz, O. (Eds.). MEDINFO 83. Amsterdam: North-Holland. ISBN 0-444-86525-X.
- Salamon, R., Blum, B.I., Jørgensen, M. (Eds.). MEDINFO 86. Amsterdam: North-Holland. ISBN 0-444-70110-9.
- Barber, B., Cao, D., Qin, D., Wagner, G. (Eds.). MEDINFO 89. Amsterdam: North-Holland. ISBN 0-444-88138-7.
- Lun, K.C., Degoulet, P., Piemme, T.E., Rienhoff, O. (Eds.). MEDINFO 92. Amsterdam: North-Holland. ISBN 978-0-444-89668-1.
- Greenes, R.A., Peterson, H.E., Protti, D.J. (Eds.). MEDINFO 95. Amsterdam: North-Holland. ISBN 978-0-9697414-1-1.
- Cesnik, B., McCray, A.T., Scherrer, J.R. (Eds.). MEDINFO 98. Amsterdam: IOS Press. ISBN 978-90-5199-407-0.
- Patel, V., Rogers, R., Haux, R. (Eds.). MEDINFO 01. Amsterdam: IOS Press. ISBN 978-1-58603-194-7.
- Fieschi, M., Coiera, E., Li, Y.-C. (Eds.). MEDIFNO 04. Amsterdam: IOS Press. ISBN 978-1-58603-444-3.
- Kuhn, K.A., Warren, J.R., Leong, T.-Y. (Eds.). MEDINFO 2007. Amsterdam: IOS Press. ISBN 978-1-58603-774-1.
External links
- http://www.imia-medinfo.org/medinfo2010/ (Cape Town, South Africa)
- http://www.imia-medinfo.org/new2/node/9