AMIA
The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) is the the national chapter of the International Medical Informatics Association.
History:
AMIA History
AMIA (the American Medical Informatics Association) is a professional scientific association that was formed by the merger of three organizations in 1988: the American Association for Medical Systems and Informatics (AAMSI); the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI); and the Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care (SCAMC).
For more than 35 years, members of AMIA and its honorific college, ACMI, have sponsored meetings, education, policy, and research programs. AMIA continues to gain influence as the authoritative voice in the growing field of informatics through the individual and collective efforts of its members, who continue to drive thought leadership, and research and practice in their respective disciplines.
Mission:
AMIA aims to lead the way in transforming health care through trusted science, education, and the practice of informatics. AMIA connects a broad community of professionals and students interested in informatics. AMIA is the bridge for knowledge and collaboration across a continuum, from basic and applied research to the consumer and public health arenas. AMIA actively supports five domains:
Translational Bioinformatics Clinical Research Informatics Clinical Informatics Consumer Health Informatics Public Health Informatics AMIA's program and services are centered around core purposes to:
advance the science of informatics promote the education of informatics assure that health information technology is used most effectively to promote health and health care advance the profession of informatics provide services for our members such as networking and opportunities for professional development.
Membership:
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.
Meetings
Publications:
AMIA publishes a monthly periodical titled the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA)[1]
JAMIA is AMIA's premier peer-reviewed journal for biomedical and health informatics. Covering the full spectrum of activities in the field, JAMIA includes informatics articles in the areas of clinical care, clinical research, translational science, implementation science, imaging, education, consumer health, public health, and policy. JAMIA's articles describe innovative informatics research and systems that help to advance biomedical science and to promote health. Case reports, perspectives and reviews also help readers stay connected with the most important informatics developments in implementation, policy and education.
2014 Impact Factor: 3.504
References:
1. American Medical Informatics Association Homepage. http://www.amia.org [2] 2.[3] 3.[4]
