This article does not cite any sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources:  "European Federation for Medical Informatics" –  news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (October 2011) ( Learn how and when to remove this message)

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.

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

External links

• European Federation for Medical Informatics