European Federation for Medical Informatics

The European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI) is a non-profit organization, which was conceived at a meeting, assisted by the Regional Office for Europe of the World Health Organization (WHO), in Copenhagen, (Denmark, Europe), in September 1976. ^[1]

Objectives

The EFMI wants to:

• advance international co-operation and dissemination of information in Medical Informatics in Europe
• promote high standards in the application of medical informatics
• promote research and development in medical informatics
• encourage high standards in education in medical informatics
• function as the autonomous European Regional Council of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA)

Organizations

• Working Group Medical Informatics (AKMI) of the Austrian Society for Biomedical Engineering ÖGBMT) and of the Austrian Computer Society (OCG) (Austria)
• Belgian Medical Informatics Association (Belgium)
• Society for Medical Informatics of Bosnia & Herzegovina (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
• Croatian Society for Medical Informatics (Croatia)
• The Cyprus Society of Medical Informatics (Cyprus)
• Czech Society for Biomedical Engineering and Medical Informatics (Czech Republic)
• The Danish Society for Medical Informatics (Denmark)
• Finnish Social and Health Informatics Association (FinnSHIA) (Finland)
• French Medical Informatics Association (AIM) (France)
• German Association for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (Germany)
• Greek Health Informatics Association (Greece)
• National Institute for Strategic Health Research (Hungary)
• Icelandic Society of Information Processing (Iceland)
• Healthcare Informatics Society of Ireland (Ireland)
• The Israeli Association for Medical Informatics (Israel)
• Italian Medical Informatics Society (AIIM) (Italy)
• State Medical and Pharmaceutical University "N. Testemitanu" (Moldova, Republic of)
• VMBI, Society for Healthcare Informatics (Netherlands)
• Norwegian Society for Medical Informatics (Norway)
• The Technical University of Lodz (Politechnika Łódzka) (Poland)
• Faculty of Medicine of Oporto University (Portugal)
• Portuguese Medical Informatics Association (E-Mais) (Portugal)
• Romanian Society of Medical Informatics (Romania)
• N. N. Burdenko Neurosurgical Institute (Russian Federation)
• Association for Medical Informatics of Serbia (Serbia)
• Slovenian Medical Informatics Association (SIMIA) (Slovenia)
• Spanish Society of Health Informatics (Spain)
• Swedish Federation for Medical Informatics (SFMI) (Sweden)
• Swiss Society for Medical Informatics (Switzerland)
• Turkish Medical Informatics Association (TurkMIA) (Turkey)
• The Ukraine Association for "Computer Medicine" (UACM) (Ukraine)
• British Computer Society Health Informatics Forum (BCSHIF) (United Kingdom)

See also

• European Institute for Health Records
• Health informatics
• Electronic Health Record (EHR)
• Electronic Medical Record (EMR)

References

1. "Medical Informatics Europe". Times Higher Education . August 12, 2005. Retrieved March 6, 2025.

External links

• European Federation for Medical Informatics