IMIA General Assembly and IAHSI Plenary Meetings
2026 – October 19 & 20, Buenos Aires – IMIA INFOLAC Conference – October 19 – 23
2027 – August 4 & 5, Dubai – MedInfo 2027 – August 30- September 4, hosted by the Emirates Health Informatics Society- Emirates Medical Association (EHIS).
2028 – TBA
2029 – to be held in conjunction with MedInfo 2029 in Gothenburg hosted by the Swedish Federation for Medical Informatics (SFMI).

About IMIA

The International Medical Informatics Association, (IMIA),  is an independent organization established under Swiss law in 1989. IMIA was originally established in 1967 as Technical Committee 4 of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP – www.ifip.org). In 1979, it evolved from a Special Interest Group of IFIP to its current status as a fully independent organization. IMIA continues to maintain its relationship with IFIP as an affiliate organization. IMIA also has close ties with the World Health Organization (WHO – www.who.int) as a NGO (Non Government Organization), and with the International Federation of Health Information Management (IFHIMA). IMIA is also a Liaison A category organisation in cooperation with ISO (ISO liaison).

Our Vision: The International Medical Informatics Association seeks to grow and nurture a collaborative global Biomedical and Health Informatics community that encourages and supports international initiatives to improve health for all

Our Mission:  The mission of the International Medical Informatics Association is to bring people together from around the world to advance biomedical and health informatics science, education, and practice through mutual learning and exchange of knowledge, skills and ideas

Strategic Goals:  The International Medical Informatics Association aims to fulfill its mission and realize its vision through a fourfold financially sustainable strategic platform that focuses on Advocacy, Collaboration, and Membership.

  • Advocacy: To champion the recognition and growth of the biomedical and health informatics profession with professional and governmental organizations.
  • Collaboration: To promote the cross-fertilization of health informatics knowledge and skills across academic, professional, and geographical boundaries, while serving as the catalyst for ubiquitous worldwide health information infrastructures for patient care and health research.
  • Membership: To strengthen opportunities for participation in the Association by all members, across all membership categories.
  • Promote Academic and Professional Excellence : To promote academic and research excellence and to exchange knowledge and evidence to prepare the next generation of health and biomedical informatics researchers and professionals  Read more…

For more information about IMIA, check out the links below

IMIA Membership

IMIA’s Governance Structure

MedInfo’s IMIA’s internationally acclaimed biennial “World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics”

Working and Special Interest Groups

 

IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics

 

IMIA’s International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics, IAHSI

 

IMIA Code of Ethics 

 

 IMIA Accredited Health & Biomedical Informatics Program

 

                          

 

 “That IMIA provides a model example for successful, tolerant and peaceful collaboration of individuals, beyond any nations and cultures, for the sake of health and quality of life of the people in our world”, Prof. Dr. Reinhold Haux, Past President of IMIA.