MedInfo
MedInfo is the name of the international medical informatics conference organized initially every 3 years and now every other year by the International Medical Informatics Association . It is the most important international conference in the field with 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 and Vice President are on a two - year term and the Vice President of MedInfo has one 2-year term and is elected the year before the next Medinfo meeting so that he/she can be mentored through one MedInfo cycle.
MedInfo conferences
MedInfo was held every 3 years since its inception in 1974, after 2013 it is now held every two years. 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
12
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
13
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
14
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)
15
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)
16
2017
Aug 21-25
Hangzhou, China
China Medical Informatics Association (CMIA )
Yongqin Huang, Chair (China), Yining Meng, Executive Vice Chair (China)
Elizabeth Borycki (Canada), Niels Peek (United Kingdom)
Adi Gunlapalli (US, chair), Dongsheng Zhao (China) and Marie-Christine Jaulent (France)
17
2019
Aug 26-30
Lyon, France
French Association for Medical Informatics (AIM )
Jean-Marie Rodrigues, President (France), Phillipe Cinquin, Deputy Executive President, Lemlih Ouchchane, General Secretary, Daniel Pagonis, Treasurer
Patrick Weber, VP MedInfo (Switzerland, IMIA Board)
Olivier Bodenreider (U.S.A., Co-chair), Michael Marscholleck (Germany, Co-chair)
Lucila Ohno-Macado (U.S.A., chair), Brigitte Séroussi (France, Vice Chair)
18
2023
July 8–12
Sydney, Australia
Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA )
Najeeb Al-Shorbaji, VP MedInfo (Jordon, IMIA Board)
Paul Otero (Co-chair, Argentina), Philip Scott (Co-chair, United Kingdom)
Jennifer Bichel-Findlay (Australia, Co-chair)
20
2025
August
Taipei, Taiwan
Taiwan Association for Medical Informatics (TAMI)
Other definitions
MedInfo is also an acronym for Medical Informatics
See also
References
Peterson, H.; Hutter, M. (2007). "IMIA's publication history". IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics Methods Inf. Med. V46 ISuppl. 1. 192-196. : 192– 196. ISBN 978-3-7945-2608-6 . PMID 17700924 .
Anderson, J., Forsythe, J.M. (Eds.) (1974). MEDINFO 74 . Amsterdam: North-Holland. ISBN 0-444-10771-1 . {{cite book }}
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Shires, D.B., Wolf, H. (Eds.). MEDINFO 77 . Amsterdam: North-Holland. ISBN 978-0-7204-0754-9 . {{cite book }}
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Lindberg, D.A.B., Kaihara, S. (Eds.) (1980). MEDINFO 80 . Amsterdam: North-Holland. ISBN 0-444-86029-0 . {{cite book }}
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van Bemmel, J.H., Ball, M.J., Wigertz, O. (Eds.). MEDINFO 83 . Amsterdam: North-Holland. ISBN 0-444-86525-X . {{cite book }}
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Salamon, R., Blum, B.I., Jørgensen, M. (Eds.). MEDINFO 86 . Amsterdam: North-Holland. ISBN 0-444-70110-9 . {{cite book }}
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Barber, B., Cao, D., Qin, D., Wagner, G. (Eds.). MEDINFO 89 . Amsterdam: North-Holland. ISBN 0-444-88138-7 . {{cite book }}
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Lun, K.C., Degoulet, P., Piemme, T.E., Rienhoff, O. (Eds.). MEDINFO 92 . Amsterdam: North-Holland. ISBN 978-0-444-89668-1 . {{cite book }}
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Greenes, R.A., Peterson, H.E., Protti, D.J. (Eds.). MEDINFO 95 . Amsterdam: North-Holland. ISBN 978-0-9697414-1-1 . {{cite book }}
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Cesnik, B., McCray, A.T., Scherrer, J.R. (Eds.). MEDINFO 98 . Amsterdam: IOS Press. ISBN 978-90-5199-407-0 . {{cite book }}
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Patel, V., Rogers, R., Haux, R. (Eds.). MEDINFO 01 . Amsterdam: IOS Press. ISBN 978-1-58603-194-7 . {{cite book }}
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Fieschi, M., Coiera, E., Li, Y.-C. (Eds.). MEDIFNO 04 . Amsterdam: IOS Press. ISBN 978-1-58603-444-3 . {{cite book }}
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Kuhn, K.A., Warren, J.R., Leong, T.-Y. (Eds.). MEDINFO 2007 . Amsterdam: IOS Press. ISBN 978-1-58603-774-1 . {{cite book }}
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