Presentation by Dr Peter Murray, IMIA Executive Director, in IMIA panel at Inforalud2010 conference; February 10, 2010

1. ) La Informática Biomédica y de la Salud desde la Perspectiva de las Sociedades Científicas Internacionales (Biomedical and Health Informatics from the Perspective of the International Scientific Societies) 09 February, 2010 | Madrid, Spain Inforsalud 2010 | XIII Congreso Nacional de Informatica de la Salud

3. Greetings Photo courtesy Antoine Geissbuhler

4. Overview Presenters: Dr. Peter Murray, IMIA Executive Director Prof. Jack Li, Past President APAMI Prof. George Mihalas, EFMI Representative to IMIA Dr. Riccardo Bellazzi, Medinfo2010 SPC Chair Dr. Fernando Martín Sanchez, IMIA VP for Membership

5. Overview About IMIA - the International Medical Informatics Association Governance and Membership WG and SIGs, Yearbook and Journals Strategic Plan, 'Towards IMIA 2015' Invitation to Participate in IMIA Activities

6. About IMIA 1967 - established as Technical Committee 4 of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). 1979 - evolved from a Special Interest Group of IFIP to current status as a fully independent organization. IMIA continues to maintain its relationship with IFIP as an affiliate organization. IMIA has close ties with the World Health Organization (WHO) as a NGO (Non Government Organization), and with the International Federation of Health Records Organizations (IFHRO)

7. About IMIA The basic aims of IMIA shall be: - to advance international cooperation; - to stimulate research, development and routine application; - to move informatics from theory into practice in a full range of settings, from physician’s office to acute and long term care; and - to further the dissemination and exchange of knowledge, information and technology.

8. About IMIA The IMIA 'family' of members: Member Societies - >50 Working Groups and Special Interest Groups - 20 Academic Institutional Members - >50 Corporate Institutional Members - 12 Regions; Corresponding Members (>75 in 35 countries); Affiliates .... Member societies represent 50,000 members on all continents

9. About IMIA IMIA: NOT an individual membership organisation in same way as SEIS, AMIA, etc. But an 'association of associations' - acts as a 'bridging organisation' to bring together the members of the global health and biomedical informatics communities (further information: Fernando Martin Sanchez, VP Membership)

10. IMIA Member Societies eg SEIS Institutional Members WG IMIA-NI WGs IMIA Board and General Assembly IMIA-NI SIG medinfo NI Congress About IMIA

11. About IMIA Governance: Board of elected officers and representatives President: Reinhold Haux President-elect: Antoine Geissbuhler General Assembly - representation from all IMIA members - meets annually – next at Medinfo2010, Cape Town - decision-making body

12. About IMIA - Yearbook Outputs: IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics Annually since 1992 Now a supplement of Methods of Information in Medicine Reviews, surveys, best papers, academic studies

13. About IMIA - Journals Three official journals: Methods of Information in Medicine http://www.methods-online.com (Schattauer Publishers Stuttgart) Applied Clinical Informatics http://www.aci-journal.org (Schattauer Publishers Stuttgart) International Journal of Medical Informatics http://www.ijmijournal.com/home (Elsevier)

14. About IMIA - Events Outputs: Medinfo events: - every 3 years since 1974 - 13 th triennial event in Cape Town, Sept. 2010 - Medinfo2013, Copenhagen - biennial starting 2015 Regional activities: - EFMI (MIE), APAMI, IMIA-LAC - national events of members societies

15. About IMIA Outputs: Endorsed documents: - Code of Ethics for Health Information Professionals - STARE-HI (evaluations) - Scientific Map, Knowledge Base

16. About IMIA Outputs: Recommendations of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) on Education in Biomedical and Health Informatics Original: 1999 First Revision: 2010 Free PDF download at Methods and IMIA websites

17. About IMIA - WG/SIG Working Groups, Special Interest Group SIG: nursing informatics (IMIA-NI WGs: Consumer Health Informatics; Dental Informatics Health and Medical Informatics Education Health Informatics for Development Health Information Systems Human Factors Engineering; Informatics in Genomic Medicine Intelligent Data Analysis and Data Mining

18. About IMIA - WG/SIG Working Groups Mental Health; Open Source Health Informatics Organizational and Social Issues Primary Health Care Informatics Security in Health Information Systems Smart Homes and Ambient Assisted Living Standards; Technology Assessment & Quality Development Telematics

19. Towards IMIA 2015 The IMIA Strategic Plan: 'Towards IMIA2015' - sets out a vision, guiding principles and strategic goals for IMIA. Process started in 2003, under leadership of IMIA President Nancy Lorenzi. Plan adopted in 2007.

20. Towards IMIA 2015 Vision IMIA will provide leadership and expertise to the multidisciplinary health focused community and policy makers to enable the transformation of healthcare in accord with the world-wide vision to improve the health of the world population.

21. Towards IMIA 2015 IMIA will fulfil its vision by: - Being the scientific informatics association through which the world’s knowledge leaders come together to effectively and efficiently create, assemble, integrate, synthesize or assimilate intellectual knowledge that is required worldwide to advance biomedical informatics in its role of improving health and healthcare. - Being the informatics association that effectively and efficiently connects people and the nations of the world to be able to accomplish the above purpose.

22. Towards IMIA 2015 IMIA’s Strategic Framework Model 'rainbow umbrella' - five concentric circles - six pie sectors

23. Towards IMIA 2015

24. Towards IMIA 2015 Knowledge is the core of each sector

25. Towards IMIA 2015

26. Towards IMIA 2015 Connectivity Strategic Goal IMIA will be recognized as an inclusive global association that connects groups and individuals at the leading edge of the state of the art of the field of health and biomedical informatics, within and without the IMIA community, in order to advance, develop and disseminate the (art and) science of informatics in support of health.

27. IMIA Transition Plan Project to update IMIA Scientific Content map Web 2.0 Taskforce Bioinformatics Knowledge Mapping Project IMIA-APAMI Strategic Plan Knowledge is the central core of IMIA

28. And don't forget for your diaries 12-15 September, 2010 Cape Town, South Africa www.medinfo2010.org

29. Thanks and contact details Thanks to: Dr Fernando Martin Sanchez and SEIS for this event Contact: [email_address] www.imia.org Presentation at: http://www.slideshare.net/imia