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3. Additional resources for selecting and implementing informatics solutions - Part 3: Industry and community resources

3.6 Trade organizations and events

Trade organizations and associations

A through D

• African Networks for Health Research & Development (AFRO-NETS)
• Alliance for Nursing Informatics (ANI)
• American Association of Integrated Healthcare Delivery Systems (AAIHDS)
• American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA)
• American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) Foundation
• American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)
• American Nursing Informatics Association (ANIA)
• American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors (ASCLD)
• American Society of Health Informatics Managers (ASHIM)
• American Telemedicine Association (ATA)
• ANSI National Accreditation Board (ANAB)
• Armenian Association of Telemedicine (AATM)
• Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics (APAMI)
• Association for Clinical Data Management (ACDM)
• Association for Pathology Informatics (API)
• Association for Veterinary Informatics (AVI)
• Association of Clinical Scientists (ACS)
• Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS)
• Australasian College of Health Informatics (ACHI)
• Australasian Telehealth Society (ATHS)
• Australian Health Informatics Education Council (AHIEC)

• Belgian Medical Informatics Association (MIM)
• Bioinformatics Institute of India (BII)
• Bioinformatics Organization
• British Computer Society Health Scotland

• Canadian Health Information Management Association (CHIMA)
• Canadian Nursing Informatics Association (CNIA)
• Child Health Informatics Center (CHIC)
• Chinese Health Information Standardization Society (CHISS)
• Clinical Informatics Research and Development (CIRD)
• College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME)
• Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management Education (CAHIIM)
• Commission on Office Laboratory Accreditation (COLA)
• Computers in Cardiology
• Council on Clinical Information Technology (COCIT)
• Czech Society for Biomedical Engineering and Medical Informatics ( ČLS)

• Digital Health Canada (DHC)

E through J

• Ear-Nose-Throat Informatics Society (ENTIS-J)
• eHealth Initiative (eHI)
• EMBnet - The Global Bioinformatics Network
• Emergency Informatics Association (EIA)
• European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI)
• European Health Telematics Association (EHTEL)
• European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM)
• European Society for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME)
• EUROREC Institute

• Federation for Informatics Professionals (FEDIP):
• Foundation of Healthcare Technologies Society (FHTS)

• Global Observatory for eHealth (GOE)
• Global Organisation for Bioinformatics Learning, Education & Training (GOBLET)

• Health Informatics in Africa (HELINA)
• Health Informatics New Zealand (HINZ)
• Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA)
• Health Informatics Society of Nigeria (HISN)
• Health Information Management Association of Australia (HIMAA)
• Health Level Seven International (HL7)
• Health On the Net Foundation (HON)
• Healthcare Informatics Society of Ireland (HISI)
• Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
• HIMSS EHR Association (HIMSS EHRA)

• IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (IEEE EMBS)
• IHE International
• Indian Association for Medical Informatics (IAMA)
• Initiative for Parallel Bioinformatics (IPAB)
• Institute of Health Records & Information Management (IHRIM)
• International Federation of Health Information Management Associations (IFHIMA)
• International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO)
• International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA)
• International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories (ISBER)
• International Society for Clinical Biostatistics (ISCB)
• International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB)
• IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science

• Japan Association for Medical Informatics (JAMI)
• Japan Association for Medical Informatics - Nursing Informatics (JAMI-NI)
• Japan Association for Clinical Laboratory Science (JCLS)
• Japan Society of Health Information Management (JHIM)
• Japanese Society for Bioinformatics (JSBi)
• Japanese Society of Drug Informatics (JASDI)

K through Z

• Kenya Health Informatics Association: KeHIA; a professional association dedicated "to further[ing] the health and biomedical agenda in Kenya to support the government's initiatives to improve and sustain quality health services for all Kenyans"

• KDD: a sub-group of the Association for Computing Machinery, promoting the "advancement and adoption of the 'science' of knowledge discovery and data mining"

• Laboratory Robotics Interest Group LRIG; a "special interest group focused on laboratory automation"

• Markle Foundation: a private foundation with the goal of helping others "realize the potential of information technology to address previously intractable public problems, for the health and security of all Americans"

• Medical Computer Society of India: MCSI; a professional society dedicated to promoting the use of computer technology to better patient outcomes

• Medical Informatics and Technology Applications Consortium: MedITAC; "a unique NASA Research Partnership Center (RPC), established to develop, evaluate, and promote information and medical technologies for space flight and ground applications"

• Medical Library Association: MLA; a nonprofit, educational organization "committed to educating health information professionals, supporting health information research, [and] promoting access to the world's health sciences information"

• Medical Software Industry Association: MSIA; a membership-based professional association representing "the interests of the Australian commercial software industry which develops, supplies and services information management products and services for healthcare practitioners, healthcare service providers and healthcare organisations"

• MedTech Europe: formerly the European Diagnostic Manufacturer’s Association and Eucomed, the two combined to form MedTech Europe, a "trade association for the medical technology industry including diagnostics, medical devices and digital health"

• Middle East Association for Health Informatics: MEAHI; a not-for-profit organization "trying to use regional as well as global potentials to provide a collaborative environment, in which requirements are discussed, solutions are provided, and resources are allocated to tackle healthcare issues of this vulnerable part of the world"

• National Academies: a collection of U.S. "private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and the world," including sciences, engineering, medicine, and research

• National Association of Health Data Organizations: NAHDO; a U.S. "non-profit membership and educational association dedicated to improving health care data collection and use"

• National Institutes of Health Informatics: NIHI; a Canadian not-for-profit corporation "dedicated to fostering health informatics (HI) innovation, research and education"

• The NELAC Institute: TNI; a "non-profit organization whose mission is to foster the generation of environmental data of known and documented quality through an open, inclusive, and transparent process that is responsive to the needs of the community"

• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations: NDLTD; "an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination, and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations"

• New England Nursing Informatics Consortium: NENIC; "a dynamic regional organization of nurses, allied healthcare professionals, and HIT solution providers"

• Nursing Specialist Group: NSG; a British Computer Society-related "U.K. organisation for nurses and therapists interested in the management and use of information and communications technology to improve the quality, delivery and recording of care"

• Ontario Nursing Informatics Group: ONIG; a professional group attempting "to provide a forum for nursing professionals to communicate and disseminate current developments in health care information systems"

• OpenClinical: "a not-for-profit organisation created and maintained as a public service," promoting tools, methodologies, "and other knowledge management technologies in patient care and clinical research"

• openEHR Foundation: a not-for-profit company that develops specification, clinical model, and other medical programs and also supports health informatics education

• OSCAR Canada Users' Society: OCUS; a not-for-profit society dedicated to promoting the education and use of OSCAR, "a suite of open-source applications including an electronic medical record"

• Public Health Informatics Institute: PHII; a non-profit organization acting "as a neutral convener of public health professionals and their stakeholders, transforming health practitioners' ability to apply information effectively in order to improve health outcomes worldwide"

• Public Library of Science: PLOS; a not-for-profit "publisher, membership, and advocacy organization with a mission to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication"

• Red Internacional de Enfermería Informática: RIEI, translates to International Network of Nursing Informatics; an international association of nurses and other professionals from Latin American and Caribbean countries seeking "the voluntary development and exchange of experience, information, and knowledge" related to the field of nursing informatics

• Regenstrief Institute: RI; an informatics and healthcare research organization dedicated to "improving quality of care, increasing efficiency of healthcare delivery, preventing medical errors and enhancing patient safety"

• Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition: SPARC; "an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to correct imbalances in the scholarly publishing system"

• SIGCOMM: a special interest group of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) dedicated to finding answers to "systems engineering and architectural questions surrounding computer communication"

• Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine: SIIM; a "leading healthcare professional organization for those interested in the current and future use of informatics in medical imaging"

• Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening: SLAS; "a global organization that exists to provide forums for education and information exchange to encourage the study of, and improve the science and practice of, laboratory automation and screening"

• Swedish Association of Medical Informatics: SFMI; a professional association that strives "to promote the development of informatics in health care, in particular through the organization of meetings with scientific lectures and discussions"

• Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics: SIB; an academic, non-profit foundation that "coordinates research and education in bioinformatics throughout Switzerland and provides high quality bioinformatics services to the national and international research community"

• Ukrainian Association for Computer Medicine: UACM; an independent non-governmental non-commercial organization dedicated to furthering the use of computers and other technology in medicine

• University hospital Medical Information Network: UMIN; "a cooperative organization for national medical schools in Japan"

• https://www.urac.org/ URAC]: an independent, nonprofit organization "promoting health care quality through its accreditation, education and measurement programs"

• Vancouver Bioinformatics Users Group: VanBUG; "an association of researchers, other professionals and students in the B.C. Lower Mainland who have an interest in the field of bioinformatics"

• Workflow Management Coalition: WfMC; "a global organization of adopters, developers, consultants, analysts, as well as university and research groups engaged in workflow and BPM"