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 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 |
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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) |
MedInfo is also an acronym for Medical Informatics
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